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The National Football League television blackout policies are the strictest among the four major professional sports leagues in North America.. The NFL maintained a blackout policy, from 1973 through 2014, that stated that a home game cannot be televised in the team's local market if 85 percent of the tickets are not sold out 72 hours before the starting time of the match.
[51] [52] The blackout rules do not apply during the postseason, as there are no regional television broadcasts. The NHL utilizes a similar policy of exclusive and non-exclusive national games; with the new broadcast deals enacted with 2021–22 season, all regular season games carried by ABC, ESPN, and ESPN+ are exclusive national broadcasts.
Major League Baseball (MLB) has rules for exclusive broadcasting, called "blackout" rules, which bar certain areas from watching certain live games. [1] Most blackouts exist for two reasons: to set a given team's local broadcaster's exclusive broadcast territory, which induces cable systems in those areas to carry the regional sports networks that carry the games, as well as MLB's desire to ...
A subscription to NBA League Pass gives you live and on-demand games, but blackout restrictions still apply. Cavs playoff game on Bally Sports Ohio: How to watch Game 5 The game is also airing on ...
FCC commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to repeal the rules that allowed sports leagues, mainly the NFL, to bar regions from watching FCC votes to overturn blackout rules barring poorly ...
Ultimately, no games would be blacked out at all during the 2014 season. [95] On March 23, 2015, the NFL's owners voted to suspend the blackout rules for 2015, meaning that all games will be televised in their home markets, regardless of ticket sales. [95] The blackout rule has been suspended for every subsequent season through 2022.
The law has been interpreted to include the so-called "blackout rules" which protect a home team from competing games broadcast into its home territory on a day when it is playing at home, and from being required to broadcast games within its home market area that have not sold out, though none of the leagues implement such rules any longer.
Games broadcast locally or regionally are available nationwide (except those affected by local blackout restrictions) on the subscription-based MLB.com and MLB Extra Innings services. National radio. ESPN Radio: a Saturday game of the week, Sunday night, opening day and holiday games, plus the All-Star Game and the entire postseason.