How do blackouts work for watching sports?

Question

I live in Boise Idaho and want to get SF Giants games. help. Ll the info provided by the programming companies is super confusing.

Answer 1

More than 40 years ago, baseball created the territorial-rights rules that gifted every team a specific geographic area in which they could market to a regional fan base
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You see, around 40 years ago, baseball began gerrymandering specific areas of the country to teams so each one could market to a localized fan base. As media walls broke down and television coverage expanded and the NFL made billions of dollars more than its competitors with a national contract, baseball allowed teams to retreat to their fiefdoms and handle TV however they chose. Now the sport faces the double whammy of local TV revenue being the great divide between haves and have-nots that also keeps a fan like Cho wondering why he can't watch his favorite team play even though its stadium is 400 miles away

Answer 2

How do blackouts work?

1. You want to watch a certain game.

2. But you cannot.

3. Cable, MLB take your money anyway.

Seriously, territorial rights were set up back in the dark ages. Even CONSIDERING making changes is an amazingly progressive move for the organization that is Major League Baseball (realize, back in the early days of television, team owners were paranoid of broadcasting games for fear of losing live ticket sales; of course, once games did get on TV, sales increased, because it was free and powerful marketing. As a group, baseball team owners are not very visionary, and this is time-invariant. They are all, continually, loathe to risk ceding any amount of current power, even in exchange for practically guaranteed future gains.)

The population is migratory; there really is no sound reason that broadcast areas should hold to long outdated restrictions. Let's hope for better days ahead.

Answer 3

I suggest you get the MLB package from Direct tv or Dish Network. its pricy but you'll get every game