MLB Blackout areas

MLBAM may be close to revising its asinine blackout policy: I live in Bloomington, IN, which is about 2.5 hours from Cincinnati. Cincinnati Reds games are broadcast locally in Cincinnati on Fox Sports Ohio. I don’t get Fox Sports Ohio. I get Fox Sports Indiana. Because I’m in Indiana. Fox Sports Indiana carries SOME Reds games, but not all. Fox Sports Indiana will broadcast 95 Reds games in 2014; mostly they show Reds games when no Pacers games, live wrestling, or live racing are in line for broadcast on Fox Sports Indiana. About 10 other games are on national TV. All of which makes sense. Here’s where it gets stupid: Major League Baseball classifies Bloomington as Cincinnati Reds territory. And it thus feels justified in blacking out Reds games on MLB.TV in Bloomington, so that I have to support my local broadcasters and watch it on TV. Except I don’t get about 60 of the Reds games in Bloomington on TV. There is no way, outside of satellite TV options, for me to watch about 60 Reds games in 2014 IN REDS TERRITORY! I can watch all 162 games involving the Houston Astros, though, if I bought MLB.TV. Thanks, MLB.TV. Good idea. At least, maybe, possibly, it will be fixed in the future. Like in 2018, once I’ve left Bloomington.

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