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Key point here. You can't actually stream any other major pro sport in your local market you only get out of market games (ie no Giants baseball in the Giants
by mikeryan 16y ago
Key point here.
You can't actually stream any other major pro sport in your local market you only get out of market games (ie no Giants baseball in the Giants territory - and the territory extends north to oregon and about 300 miles south of SF)
Here's the funny thing - you generally don't need cable to watch your local NFL team. You can actually usually get your local NFL team using an over the air HD antenna and if you get a decent signal you can get pretty good HD. This is because most NFL games air on local broadcast affiliates which still transmit an OTA signal. Most of the other sports games are on local cable nets.
So really NFL is actually the only sport where you can get a local game feed without cable. So to answer the article's premise - no.
- lotusleaf1987 16y agoBut what about blackouts? When the team stadium sales are below x% they aren't allowed to broadcast the game at all, in order to theoretically drive more ticket sales.
- vsprabhakara1 16y agoTrue, but blackouts are relatively rare in the NFL, unless its 2009 and you're the Raiders. In fact, the Chargers were about 1,000 tickets away from a blackout earlier this year, and posted this on their Twitter account, and quickly sold enough tickets.
- axomhacker 16y agohttp://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2010-09-06-nfl-tv-blackouts-forecast_N.htm http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2010-09-06-nfl-t... "Last year's blackouts were confined to five teams, all of which had losing records: the Jacksonville Jaguars (seven blackouts, seven wins); Detroit Lions (four blackouts, two wins); Kansas City Chiefs (one blackout, four wins); Oakland Raiders (seven blackouts, five wins); and St. Louis Rams (three blackouts, one win)."
- marknutter 16y agoYeah, but a lot of people want to watch the Monday and Thursday night games.
- protomyth 16y agoFor a lot of people, HD antenna will give you a better picture (less compression) than cable.