If Sacramento gets a team, they better not black out Quakes games, since I live closer to Sac. I will be very angry.
I’m sure they will. That’s what RSNs do. It’s why I can never watch King’s games when I’m in the Bay Area.
Unless you order the NBA League Pass with your TV provider (though the nationally-televised games can be watched even without the Pass). It'll indeed be that way as well if Sacramento enters MLS, albeit substituting NBA League Pass with MLS Direct Kick . GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
Which is some unmitigated bullshit. If the channel comes in you should get all of its programming. Not some alternate crap.
I agree completely! I am very unhappy with ESPN+ In that so many games are not available, and also there is no archive. The old MLS Live spoiled me.
Isn't direct kick just out-of-market games - so it would be the same as espn+ in terms of blackouts? I don't think blackouts are going away but what makes it worse is that we need access to no less than three (maybe more) different channels to watch all the Quakes games. Univision/twitter, telemundo, and nbc sn. Possibly even ESPN, ESPN2, Fox Sports, and FS1 (if any of our games were nationally covered). YouTube TV covers most of the bases except it doesn't get univision which means you have to watch with an antenna or twitter (it's embarrassing that a bay area company has such horrible streaming tech - it's really the worst I can remember using in recent times). Even if you get all of those channels you may not have access to an english audio (on YouTube TV it was impossible to get english on the telemundo games).
Aren't 100% of Quakes games unavailable on espn+? It's for out-of-market only games. It should give you every game that's not the Quakes though.
MLS Direct Kick is only out-of-market RSN's (our RSN's are NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports California). It has never carried the nationally-televised games (ESPN / ESPN2, FOX / FOX Sports 1 / FOX Sports 2, Univision / UniMás / TUDN) even as far back as when it was called MLS Shootout, though it does carry the TSN games (which I'm assuming is nationally-televised in Canada) for the three Canadian-based MLS teams. MLS's relationship with ESPN+ is newer but it's likely the same way. Since most non-nationally televised San Jose Earthquakes games are on either of our two RSN's and their respective streaming apps, then of course they're blacked out on both MLS Direct Kick and ESPN+. After all, NBC Sports Bay Area / NBC Sports California paid for the in-market television and streaming rights to Earthquakes games and no doubt want all the in-market eyeballs on its channels and app rather than anyone else's for both ratings and promotional purposes. This season's three Telemundo broadcasts were a weird case as unlike with the Univision/UniMás/TUDN games, they were not nationally televised but were instead locally televised only on the Bay Area's Telemundo station KSTS channel 48, the team's first truly locally televised games since the team's very early years with KICU channel 36. Fortunately for those out-of-market, though, the NBC Sports Bay Area app also carried those games with English-language commentary by our regular TV announcing team. However, in an ironic twist, if Sacramento Republic FC ends up joining the league, then the non-nationally televised San Jose Earthquakes games likely will start being carried on both MLS Direct Kick and ESPN+ in the Sacramento area but would unfortunately be blacked out on the RSN's there without them, much like how the Golden State Warriors games on NBC Sports Bay Area are blacked out in the Sacramento area unless you have NBA League Pass. GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
Is baseball not done they same way? I can watch both A's and Giants games, but warriors games are blacked out in favor of the Sacramento Kings, unless it has changed recently.
The A's and Giants share the same market (i.e. the Bay Area) and there's no competing MLB team in the Sacramento area. The lack of an NHL team in the Sacramento area is also why Sharks games can easily be viewed there. Conversely, the Bay Area and the Sacramento area are two competing NBA markets, with the Warriors owning the rights to the former and the Kings owning the rights to the latter. GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
It's sort of funny how these leagues have divided the country into territories 'owned' by their teams. Very feudal...
I'm humbled that I couldn't fathom how funny that was when I first saw this movie - in high school - Instead being enamored by a man-eating rabbit and a castle full of scantly clad ladies begging for a spanking.
You know, I was just thinking about this aspect of the brilliance of Monty Python the other day. There's ample sophomoric humor to satisfy high school boys, but it's cheek-to-jowl with incredibly incisive -- and even prophetic -- social and political commentary. They just keep on giving through every life stage.
Hey Goodsie, I always reference your pre-game thread to see on what channel I will find the Quakes on Direct TV. Thanks for providing that info, it never fails me!
The Comcast channels cited are always spot on, too. And I wouldn't be able to cope with daylight savings time (or know how the Giants fared on a daily basis, or the proper dimensions of a soccer field or kit color scheme) without Goodsport, either.
I acknowledged that: ". . . I wouldn't be able to . . . (. . . know . . . the proper . . . kit color scheme) without Goodsport, either."