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jbeck5

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mysens said:
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.
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Your guide says games are blacked out?

Why does my Tv guide just list the games and then when I click on them, they work? Never seen a guide say "blackout".

Last I saw that was with the printed tv guides in 1998 that would say "blackout in effect" for games not sold out to drive ticket sales....which is a bad strategy to create new fans...
 
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Beech said:
yes, the issue is the same however.

No experience at the ministerial/government end. Easy to be manipulated. No one to stop bad moves.
And their egos and pride and self preservation ensures they do not have anyone around them with true knowledge. So.. shit gets passed and is allowed.

Walk around BC, see how much white concrete is used in construction.... Low grade and meant for decorative use.. Low cost.. so contractors get it approved and politicians are happy as pigs in shit because they keep cost down. No One knows better. And something that should last 50 years, lasts 25..

all because city councilor X on the public works committee, chooses to not seek advice from true experts who can stop it. And even worse, if they do stop it, costs soar, because you are switching to better concrete.

I use to believe in the corporate Devil. It is not he! The corporate Devil can be stopped by a smart legislator/government worker/public sector person.... He does not and the Devil runs amuck.

the Devil can be slayed, if every 2-6 years, we are way more careful where we put that X.
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I have no faith in humanity anyways, so whatevs.
 
thinkwild

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jbeck5 said:
Your guide says games are blacked out?

Why does my Tv guide just list the games and then when I click on them, they work? Never seen a guide say "blackout".

Last I saw that was with the printed tv guides in 1998 that would say "blackout in effect" for games not sold out to drive ticket sales....which is a bad strategy to create new fans...
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I'm just basic Rogers and have never seen the blackout message either. But i have friends using alternative boxes shall we say with a universe of channels and on theirs i have seen the blackout message. I had always presumed it was because their setup made them appear to be residing or streaming from Toronto or something. Those boxes can be spotty at times too though even if the game isnt blacked out as the guide stated.

Not sure i remember the Sens ever blacking out games locally unless there was a sellout. I definitely remember that for the Old Ottawa Rough Rider games though. And that was a real bummer when you found out you wouldnt be able to watch the game that Saturday after all. I suspect in general that didnt prove to be a effective blackmail to gain fans. I wonder if that is done at all anymore anywhere.
 

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I haven't read the thread to see if anyone else mentioned this, but I do have this issue, and not with just TSN but also Sportsnet. My IP says I am in Barrhaven but for some reason both TSN and Sportsnet don't think I am in the sens region. So I just watch the games on Sportsnet as they have the national rights.
 
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thinkwild said:
I'm just basic Rogers and have never seen the blackout message either. But i have friends using alternative boxes shall we say with a universe of channels and on theirs i have seen the blackout message. I had always presumed it was because their setup made them appear to be residing or streaming from Toronto or something. Those boxes can be spotty at times too though even if the game isnt blacked out as the guide stated.

Not sure i remember the Sens ever blacking out games locally unless there was a sellout. I definitely remember that for the Old Ottawa Rough Rider games though. And that was a real bummer when you found out you wouldnt be able to watch the game that Saturday after all. I suspect in general that didnt prove to be a effective blackmail to gain fans. I wonder if that is done at all anymore anywhere.
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I get the blackout message on my TV guide (but no actual blackout) for TSN games usually even though I'm with Rogers for my cable TV and I live in downtown Ottawa. I wonder if it's because my internet is with a fibre internet provider that somehow might make me look like I'm out of town? But then again there's nothing exotic about my IP address, and all internet services and web sites that I use correctly locate me in Ottawa.

Lately I've switched from my antiquated PVR cable to the Rogers Ignite service, and I *think* that the blackout message has disappeared. So maybe the problem was with the PVR?
 
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BonHoonLayneCornell said:
For myself, I'm in a bit of a weird scenario atm. I put my TV service on seasonal suspend for 6 months in July, but they usually don't actually deactivate the service, just stop billing me, so I've got my active cable subscription atm for free. To add Center Ice would require me activating the service again, thus costs go wsaaaay up immediately. The Sportsnet+ and TSN Go subs I get with my TV provider also still work while on suspend, but you can't upgrade to the Sportsnet+ with out of market hockey, which I need for TSN 5 games, and have to fully sub to that if I want it, which is $35/month. So far I've used free streams this season, but it is a pain, especially with the time difference here, and I might just have to pony up for Sportsnet+ with the out of market games.
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Have you tried a VPN that has a server in Montreal?
 
mysens

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jbeck5 said:
Your guide says games are blacked out?

Why does my Tv guide just list the games and then when I click on them, they work? Never seen a guide say "blackout".

Last I saw that was with the printed tv guides in 1998 that would say "blackout in effect" for games not sold out to drive ticket sales....which is a bad strategy to create new fans...
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Exactly for years it says blackout on the Rogers Guide. Then you click on it and the game is there
 
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BonHoonLayneCornell said:
Hadn't thought of that tbh. Wouldn't that still be out of Ottawa viewing region? No harm in trying either way. I tried finding an Ottawa server on my VPN provider but no dice.
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Everything east of the line between Belleville and Pembroke is Ottawa's viewing region since they have an agreement with Montreal to share each other's regions.
 
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Micklebot said:
It was among the most unhinged things I've ever experienced on these boards, and I. Including the crap that was around when we still had a politics forum on the main boards.
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I just went back a looked through it. Unhinged is an understatement.

Pierre from Orleans said:
What? Elaborate please.
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Page 14 is where you find Ian. Post 327, then 330ish and then one more at 471.
 
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