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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not in this area. If you're a baseball fan from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, the only way to watch your team's games is via cable TV. MASN channel doesn't offer a streaming option.[/quote]

Yep - MLB’s deal with MASN gives exclusive territorial rights for showing Nats/Orioles games. The Peter Angelos family owns MASN & the Orioles. You can’t legitimately stream or antenna most Nats/Orioles games because of the blackout restrictions. MASN uses this to control its regional commercial ad revenue.
Apparently MLB hopes blackouts encourage fans to go to ballparks instead of watching games on tv.[/quote]

Ha! Well we go to the same number of games per year that we did before we get cable, so I guess it didn't work on us.  We pay $20 to get all the games on radio broadcast now, so there's that.

I miss watching Nats games on TV but it was pretty much the only reason we were holding on to cable.  Just couldn't justify the expense anymore.

Angelos is a jerk.  In many other markets there are now options to get the local sports network through Sling (and Hulu maybe?).    [/quote]

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