FCC Ends NFL Blackout Rule: Latest Details, Comments and Reaction

[HoustonSucks]

Didn't see this posted yet.

So now my username has no more meaning.......... lol.........

The Federal Communications Commission voted Tuesday to end the sports blackout rule, which kept NFL games off local television if a game didn't sell out. The move doesn't guarantee the league must start allowing those games to get shown, but it removes the federal regulation surrounding the issue.

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[Tabascocat]

Well, your name still applies if Houston is playing at home the same time Dallas plays

The blackout rule doesn't affect that, I don't think........

 

[jazzcat22]

NFL will still find a way to keep it screwed up.
Like not showing games opposite a team while playing at home.
this past weekend, Bills at Texans, it's a sell out, but they wouldn't show the Packers-Bears game on FOX opposite Texans game. And it was FOX double header.
Trying to force local TV to Texans game. I always hated this.

I used my laptop, slingbox at house to watch Packers-Bears that was being televised in the DFW area, as well as the Texans game.

 

[HoustonSucks]

Well, your name still applies if Houston is playing at home the same time Dallas plays

The blackout rule doesn't affect that, I don't think........

Oh, that's what I thought it meant too... aghhhhhhh never mind.........

Let's hope my name applies anyway for more literal reasons this Sunday....

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Buy the Ticket! It's worth it. You can watch every game.

 

[Keithfansince5]

Thanks for posting it. Now it is up to the NFL to change. I watch games online when they are not in my area which is often as I live in SW Florida. We get stuck with both the Dolphins and Bucs games here lol.

 

[DandyDon1722]

Thanks for posting it. Now it is up to the NFL to change. I watch games online when they are not in my area which is often as I live in SW Florida. We get stuck with both the Dolphins and Bucs games here lol.

Man that's awful. People in Orlando are stuck with Bucs, Jags - more awful.

 

[cowboyz]

Why would this be a law

 

[RastaRocket]

Why would this be a law

Exactly my thoughts. Who wasted their time making this a federal regulation? lmao.

 

[AbeBeta]

Exactly my thoughts. Who wasted their time making this a federal regulation? lmao.

I expect there was a ton of lobbying from teams who traditionally could not fill seats.

Now, I do not think that realistically, anyone is going to shell out cash to go to a game because it isn't on TV. There are just too many ways to see the game otherwise for a fraction of the cost.

 

[Cebrin]

Maybe if they didn't charge an arm and a leg for a ticket, people would choose to be there instead of watching on the boob tube.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Why would this be a law

Because the NFL had to get congress and Nixon to allow a antitrust exemption so the NFL could negotiate for all the clubs with the national broadcasters as opposed to how it is in basketball where it is negotiated by individual clubs.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I expect there was a ton of lobbying from teams who traditionally could not fill seats.

Now, I do not think that realistically, anyone is going to shell out cash to go to a game because it isn't on TV. There are just too many ways to see the game otherwise for a fraction of the cost.

It's a dinosaur from 1970s thinking where some teams were not sold on the profit potential of TV and were worried only about gate receipts. The league transcends all that at this point.