MLB/Network tv rights

[dalgreen]

I have a question that I'd like your help with. I live in St. Louis, yet the ESPN broadcast of the Braves/Cubs game is being blacked out in favor of ESPNEWS. Why? I have the Extra Innings package and TBS, but I wanted to see who was doing the ESPN game and it's ESPNEWS. I don't get what rule there is that would make St. Louis a blackout market. I understand why Chicago and Atlanta are watching ESPNEWS, but I fail to see why St. Louis is being blacked out. Anyone else outside of Chicago or Atlanta getting blacked out, too? Stupid tv rules!

[J.R.]

That is truly baffling. I saw that "ESPNEWS in some markets" fine print and wondered who the poor souls were.

[Derwood]

I have a question that I'd like your help with. I live in St. Louis, yet the ESPN broadcast of the Braves/Cubs game is being blacked out in favor of ESPNEWS. Why? I have the Extra Innings package and TBS, but I wanted to see who was doing the ESPN game and it's ESPNEWS. I don't get what rule there is that would make St. Louis a blackout market. I understand why Chicago and Atlanta are watching ESPNEWS, but I fail to see why St. Louis is being blacked out. Anyone else outside of Chicago or Atlanta getting blacked out, too? Stupid tv rules!

 

I have MLB EI. I got the ESPN feed, the TBS feed, and another Braves feed, but no Cubs feed.

[cbbryan]

I have a question that I'd like your help with. I live in St. Louis, yet the ESPN broadcast of the Braves/Cubs game is being blacked out in favor of ESPNEWS. Why? I have the Extra Innings package and TBS, but I wanted to see who was doing the ESPN game and it's ESPNEWS. I don't get what rule there is that would make St. Louis a blackout market. I understand why Chicago and Atlanta are watching ESPNEWS, but I fail to see why St. Louis is being blacked out. Anyone else outside of Chicago or Atlanta getting blacked out, too? Stupid tv rules!

 

I'm alittle futher south in MO. I had ESPNews as well, but it did broadcast on TBS........no Cub feed either.

 

I didn't buy EI because it was too late in the year when I got the dish, but I have all of the "Sports" channels. Half the time I can't watch anything on them....................I can watch any pregame I want, but no game. They (dish) tell me that even if I buy EI, there are some Comcast games that I still won't get because they're "Chicagoland only." In the 80's it wasn't this complicated.........Cubs were playing..........you turn on WGN.

[dalgreen]

Thanks for the replies. I just don't get it. I got the Comcast game last night via Extra Innings, and the TBS broadcast, but the ESPN broadcast of the game was blacked out in St. Louis. I don't get it. That ,to me, is absolutely ridiculous. Again, I know why ESPN's coverage would be blacked out in Chicago and Atlanta, but why St. Louis? By the way, who were the broadcasters for ESPN last night?