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Preseason, out of market blackout???

lawguy9801 : 8/21/2014 8:25 pm

I am at my in-laws' house in northeast Ohio. I turned on NFL Network tonight to watch Steelers-Eagles - but despite the fact that where I am is Browns territory and is absolutely nowhere near the territory of the home team (Eagles), the game is blacked out here. I've read the NFL blackout rules, and I cannot understand why this game is blacked out.

Dafuq?

By any chance is it on local TV?

Wuphat : 8/21/2014 8:26 pm : link

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No.

lawguy9801 : 8/21/2014 8:28 pm : link

from 506 here are the local markets for PIT for the game

WeatherMan : 8/21/2014 8:43 pm : link

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21
Pittsburgh @ Philadelphia
Bob Pompeani, Edmund Nelson
KDKA (CBS/2 - Pittsburgh)
WTAJ (CBS/10 - Altoona)
WHP (CBS/21 - Harrisburg)
WKBN (CBS/27 - Youngstown OH)
WQCW (CW/30 - Charleston WV)
link - ( New Window )

I saw that WM

lawguy9801 : 8/21/2014 8:48 pm : link

We are right outside Akron, a half hour south of Cleveland. We are not the Pittsburgh market. Youngstown is almost an hour east of here.

This makes literally no sense. How does blacking out a game in suburban Cleveland encourage people in Philadelphia to buy tickets to a football game?

yeah, at that location you aren't getting

WeatherMan : 8/21/2014 8:51 pm : link

the Youngstown CBS, you should have Cleveland CBS. Strange.