TSN: TSN Blackouts - Mendes wants your feedback
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I think you need to provide more details such as which service provider you are susbscribed to, what listing you are referring to, which game were you watching, where you are located, etc.
How about when you pay for a premium service like CI (or whatever it's called now) and you still get blackout games?
barriers
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Lots of blackouts throughout the year, last time I purchased it. The whole reason I cancelled it and stream the games for free instead. The NHL is literally too incompetent to get paid from a willing customer.
Blotto71
Okay, maybe the worst is behind us...?
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Were they in market or out of market games that were blacked out?
BonHoonLayneCornell
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If you pay for Center Ice, you should get access to basically every game, it's supposed to just be a matter of whether its not blacked out on the network channel or the CI channel. I never had an issue with that with my Cable provider. If it's blacked out on every listing and thus unavailable entirely despite paying for CI, you're definitely getting ripped off.
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Loach
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I have Rogers. It's all the games on Sens games on tsn. The listings are the channel listings.
mysens
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Same with me...all Rogers broadcasts and it shows on the guide that its blackout...then I click on the 'blackout" and the game is playing there. Highly annoying.
Loach
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It is. It's also how people who are casual fans miss games. Flicking through stuff and not even know it's on. It's been going on for years too.
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It isnt the same, but I am in the region, but if I travel I cannot use my log ins, regardless of platform to watch the game. Even if I have to log in via my provider. There is no Cogeco in Toronto.
Joeyjoejoe
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Not sure what he can do about it, unless he’s gonna propose that they have their own streaming platform and sell directly to fans like the Dallas Stars are doing.
Icelevel
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This had been going on forever. How is it not known and been dealt with yet???
Nac Mac Feegle
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Sens games are usually ok, but a lot of blackouts tend to happen on Sportsnet and TSN. Funny enough, the game sportsnet (and sometimes TSN) blacks out, RDS or TVASP will have playing. This is for old school videotron cable. Could also be a quirky thing with Prescott-Russell being in a funky zone by using Quebec-based cable services.
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Because! That's why!
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Big Muddy
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ESPN+ has black out games that I can’t get in my black out region because they are being broadcast by the regional network which is MSG (Madison Square Garden) in my case. You can switch to MSG or to NHL Network if you have it (cable), but there is the occasional game that isn’t covered by these options as well (e.g., Senators versus New Jersey when the game was played in New Jersey).
I think it boils down to ESPN+ not being allowed to provide their service where a regional company has the broadcast rights, or maybe they don’t want to step on another company’s rights. In the U.S., the NHL sold broadcasting rights to Turner, and TBS as well. Then there’s a few games on ABC late in the season. It's become really fractured as far as a number of different companies carrying NHL games and it can take some time to figure where to watch a game.
NFL football is the same way as well and Amazon Prime has exclusive broadcast rights for Thursday night games while other NFL games are on Fox & ABC. I think ESPN+ might have the odd NFL game as well.
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