On (Mon 20 Oc) Clay Thomas wrote a masterpiece to Tracy Schell
 CT> In a message dated 17 Oct 97  11:38:33, Tracy Schell wrote:
 TS> Has the NBA changed it's blackout rules? Last year if you subscribed
 TS> to
 TS> the sports combos you could get out of state NBA teams like the
 TS> Celtics
 TS> on Sports Channel New England (I'm in FL.) A few nights ago SCNE was
 TS> televising a Cletics/Nets exhibition game but it was blacked out! I
 TS> thought stations had learned their lessons from the silly baseball
 TS> blackout rule a few years ago. The NHL doesn't blackout anything,
 TS> baseball I think blacksout local games, for me The Marlins.
 CT> Well they still have the blackout rule for kmost of the sports.. I
 CT> have a dss and i get the sports combo.. and now & then you can get a
 CT> black out game but that  very few times...btw baseball still has the
 CT> black  out rule..
What IS the blackout rule? Can't see teams IN your area, or OUT of your
area? I saw plentry of Baseball games on the Fow Sports Network, the
only games that were blacked out were Marlins games.
 
 
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