Increase in sportspack channel blackouts? College hoops mainly

I have seen an increase in this, but I watch games nearly every day that are not on my local RSN. I have no Fox Sports or Root Sports locally, and many of those games are available. The only ones I have seen blacked out are the ones on ESPN Full Court (720s) and even then, some of them are available in HD on RSNs.

 

Check your local listings or the website of the team or conference you want to see. If a game is blacked out on both the RSNs and Full Court and you can't find it on any of your other channels, the game is probably being carried on an OTA subchannel or some cable only local sports channel.

With the debut of the SEC Network as well as new channels like Fox Sports 1 carrying games that used to be syndicated to local stations, more stations are now picking the games from the ACC network.

 

Can the OP post an example when it happens? Maybe we can figure out a pattern.

 

Maybe game plan and full court will go away and just be part of the sports pack. Like how it is on TWC and brighthouse.

also alot of the games are on ESPN 3 that may be comeing soon to directv (maybe as part of the sports pack)

 

I read something saying that as Disney is renegotiating contracts it is getting rid of Game Plan and Full Court. So that would eliminate the objection some had to the idea of Directv offering ESPN3 as linear channels, since they wouldn't be biting into another revenue stream. If they did so, presumably that would be added to the sports pack.

 

I have had games blacked out on one RSN, and when they were not available on a different RSN or on Full Court, it was because they were being broadcast on a local OTA subchannel.

 

It depends on the conference and the contacts they have concerning broadcast rights. The ACC is still the worst when it comes to blackouts. The Big East is usually not a problem.