Blackouts

by phatfinfan on Sep 1, 2009 8:37 AM EDT Comment 29 comments

I was watching Mike and Mike this morning and they were discussing broadcast blackouts. The current economic troubles were cited as the cause of slow ticket sales. Has anyone heard anything about Miami? I'm hoping that the new owner, solid team, and all of the star-power signing on will bring up the ticket sales. I wish I knew this before I bought Sunday Ticket. I hope we get to watch the home games!

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A blackout on Sunday ticket?

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by Tunaflipper on Sep 1, 2009 8:54 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

the way I understand this..

is that with a blackout they dont broadcast to the city and surrounding areas.. meaning that if you live in miami or around you wont be able to watch the games locally. With the Sunday Ticket you can still see the games, because you are paying (tech the NFL) to watch the games. If that makes any sense. So dont worry if you have the Ticket you can still see the games, just wont be able to see it on Miami Local TV.

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by jwillis9 on Sep 1, 2009 9:05 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

agreed

but if you have ticket why would you need to watch it locally on cbs?

Go to the games, if you can’t watch it in HD.

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by BSerious72 on Sep 1, 2009 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

that's actually not true

I don’t believe… I had Sunday Ticket for a few years, and you got every game, except the ones shown locally on the major networks. So if you live in an area that would get Dolphins games as the local game, it will still be blacked-out.

I think I read your comment right lol

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by Little Nicky 21 on Sep 2, 2009 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Listen to Nicky!

He’s 100% correct, if you live in the blackout area it’s blacked out, sunday ticket or not, black out rules are for areas, not individual networks, they are in place to drive up ticket sales and is the most inviolate rule the teams have concerning TV rights, if you don’t sell out, you don’t get the game.

To quote Jack Nicholson from the Departed; " no ticky, no laundry"

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by uncle finster on Sep 3, 2009 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

If you own the Sunday Ticket

and live in the Miami area, you will not be able to see the game, the sunday ticket follows all local blackout rules.

by phinhead on Sep 1, 2009 9:17 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Phin is right..

I just went to Directvs site and they follow all blackout rules… Phat do you live in or near Miami.. I dont think we are in trouble of blackouts as we were not cited in the “teams in trouble”

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by jwillis9 on Sep 1, 2009 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

wow i should have read this first before commenting

that is insane, how can you pay for something and not be able to watch it?

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by BSerious72 on Sep 1, 2009 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

welcome to the NFL my friend

its in the fine print….

now if you have a old fashion satelite – i still think you can hijack the direct feed out of space but then i haven’t seen one of those in years. so there is the internet and a goodle search will lead you in the right direction.

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So do you think the Jets intentionally did it to set the organization back 3 years or was it just an unintended side effect of their move.

by W NY Fins Fan on Sep 1, 2009 11:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not sure if this is always true...

But I had Sunday Ticket w/ Super Fan last year and never had a blackout in HD, there were some in SD though.

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by Heater OsE on Sep 1, 2009 7:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's true

Directv won’t carry games on the Sunday ticket if you live in the area where the game is blacked out due to low attendance.

by phinhead on Sep 1, 2009 7:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

phinhead is correct

all telecasts – free air or direct tv are blocked out if the home team doesn’t sell out.

Chad Pennington - The Lame Ducker aka the progress stopper.

So do you think the Jets intentionally did it to set the organization back 3 years or was it just an unintended side effect of their move.

by W NY Fins Fan on Sep 1, 2009 11:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

oops

didn’t see this before I commented above, sorry

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by Little Nicky 21 on Sep 2, 2009 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Uh, same here.

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by uncle finster on Sep 3, 2009 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

oh that sucks

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by Patssuck456 on Sep 1, 2009 10:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's wack!

by JP 23 on Sep 1, 2009 12:25 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs

directv/sunday ticket...

If directv blackouts the game where you live,chances are it is being carried on one of your local channels..i.e fox,wbbm etc..This has happened here in chicago,and at first I freaked out..only to figure that the miami game is being shown locally(nationally)..shouldnt miss a snap….

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by zero13 on Sep 1, 2009 1:32 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

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by uncle finster on Sep 3, 2009 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thank God. . .

I’m out of the local blackout area but I’m in Central Florida so I was worried.

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by phatfinfan on Sep 1, 2009 3:55 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Central Florida

Is considered a secondary market for the Dolphins, it is not subject to blackouts. Unless of course they are blacked out to show the Jaguars, for which central florida is a primary market.

by phinhead on Sep 1, 2009 7:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

or the Bucs

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by EverybodyLovesDolphins on Sep 2, 2009 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Right,

But for this season that would only happen for the Saints game, because the NFL shows the game on the visiting teams network. So if an NFC team comes to Miami it will be shown on Fox.

by phinhead on Sep 2, 2009 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

dont think so

i dont think that the dolphins will have a problem with blackouts, they hav enough fans…… i think…

by finzrule on Sep 1, 2009 4:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

central floriduh

but the good news for us in the orlando area is the jackoffs are having a real hard time fillin seats..so they may show more of miami games since the jackoffs will be blacked out…:)

by 4everphin on Sep 2, 2009 8:37 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

About 10 years ago

My parents had one of those 7-1/2 ft satellite dishes that you really don’t see anymore. They owned a sports bar, so the guy installed one at our house too. You literally moved from one geostationary satellite to another in space in order to watch different channels. Each satellite had like 20-25 channels on it.

If a game was blacked out, my dad would call the Miami CBS affiliate and ask which transponder the broadcast was on. We would then watch the live feed with no commercials or breaks. Which was actually funny because you could hear the announcers talking while they were supposed to be at commercial. It would be like “We’ll see if the Jets can make a comeback right after the break.” (go to commercial) “Well they better do something because they are playing like crap today. Did you see that last pass, how is he still in the league?!?”

It was great.

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by gatorfin on Sep 2, 2009 10:06 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

LOL, yea

it was like that, hahah it could be funny sometimes, but they got wise and changed that.

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by uncle finster on Sep 3, 2009 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

We had the same type of thing

When our cable system expanded—-this has to have been at least 20-25 yrs ago—anyhow, one of the stations we had showed Pittburgh Pirates baseball games and showed the live sattelite feeds for a while…I still remember one break when one announcer asked the other to pass him one of the magnets to him, and the other announcer exclaimed "Maggots!!!! EWWWWW!!!! get em outta here!!!!!

by blackadder_650 on Sep 2, 2009 11:29 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I just moved back to Iowa and need to get sunday ticket… sucks you haved to pay so much for it, but its like 17 bucks a game…. and I’m not guaranteed sundays off from work… which makes it even worse… and if I didn’t want to pay for it, this is a college game area, not too many big nfl bars around here

by PhinsFan69 on Sep 3, 2009 12:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs