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Re:ESPN Can't Afford to Go on Like This by criddell on Monday May 01, 2017 @09:47AM (#14237404)
I have cable and subscribe to MLB.tv and they still blackout games because (I think) some local station bought exclusive broadcast rights.

MLB.tv is interesting because they generally don't have commercials. Oddly, I wish they did. When the broadcast pauses for commercials, my screen basically goes blank and the TV gets silent. I wish they would just switch to a whole stadium camera with crowd noise.

Re:ESPN Can't Afford to Go on Like This by wj on Monday May 01, 2017 @11:56AM (#14238622)
You can get around the blackouts usually by using a VPN service (like Private Internet Access) when you originally load up the stream.