For example, I live in Montreal, and there's a game tonight in Montreal. The program shows up on my receiver, but I can't tune into it because "it has been blacked out". I can watch it in French... but do I want to watch it in French!?!?!??! NO.
Why is it "blacked out"?? What does this mean!?!?!??!!? I just want to watch hockey!!!!!
2006-10-17 11:54:06 · 7 answers · asked by bendermarcus 2 in Sports ➔ Hockey
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2006-10-21 06:06:42 · answer #1 · answered by robert m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They Black out LOCAL games to force you to go to the Bell Centre and drop 2 bills on a game. I to am frustrated with this. What I do is I watch it in on french channel and I put on a English radio station on ( CJAD ) and watch the game in English
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2006-10-17 12:03:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The blackout rule is for local games. If a team doesn't SELL-OUT the rink then the game is usually subject to local black-out. Which of course means you get what you saw, a black screen rather then getting to see the game.
2006-10-17 12:56:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think "reen" has the best answer to your question!!! They're just trying to get more $$$ from you and me and everybody - but
"reen" has the solution. Sometimes the commentary is way better on the radio side than the TV side anyway!
2006-10-17 16:52:54 · answer #4 · answered by Ilmari_Karjalainen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alot of times local events may produce more revenue by attendees than by tv watchers, so in turn they "black them out" to try to catch the locals and their money... :)
2006-10-17 12:03:38 · answer #5 · answered by cajunpalomino 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means they want you to go to rink!
2006-10-17 11:56:16 · answer #6 · answered by uthockey32 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
home team has that privlage.
2006-10-17 11:59:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋