How is it determined which regional market a particular city is in? My questions comes from my situation living in Indianapolis. I'm trying to get into following FC Cincinnati and was going to watch the friendly today being streamed by the club. However it is only available if I live in the club's market area. I know from the past+ that I'm considered in the Chicago area. I'm 200 miles from Soldier Field but 105 miles away from Cincinnati. Of course even if I wanted to watch Chicago on TV I couldn't because they aren't ony any regional sports networks. I suppose the good news of this is FC Cincinnati won't be blacked out for me on ESPN +, but how do they make this determination? For baseball we get both the Chicago and Cincinnati telecasts.
For team-based streaming used for preseason games it seems to be a 75 mile radius. So you would not be able to stream Chicago or Cincinnati games. https://www.fccincinnati.com/news/p...phia-union-to-be-streamed-on-fccincinnati-com Here is one about the Fire: https://www.hottimeinoldtown.com/20...ited-preseason-gameday-guide-and-how-to-watch That is different than the system used for regular season games on ESPN+
Part of regular season is determined by if a local cable/OTA channel carries the games. I'm 336 miles away from Toyota Stadium in Frisco, but FC Dallas is carried by the local CW network affiliate in Lubbock so all their games are blacked out for me on ESPN+. I believe Garber said home market restrictions are going away with the next TV deal.
Good question. I'm in Nacogdoches in East Texas (home of Clint Dempsey) - we're 150 miles to DT Houston, 200 miles to Frisco, & 235 miles to Q2 in Austin, but apparently not in any of the local home territories. I haven't been blacked out of any local games on ESPN+ so I hope I'll continue to have live access to all the Dynamo, FCD, & Austin games this year.
My issue was this, before ESPN+ you had to use Direct Kick or MLS Live. My situation is where I lived I got DC United on TV. I moved five miles away and no longer got the channel DC United was on which at the time was News Channel 8. I could not use MLS Live or Direct Kick as they said I lived in the market and thus was blacked out. Really frustrating when MLS or DC United never returned emails concerning this. DC United is now on a network that I actually get. I only live 30 miles from RFK at the time.