WTF, MLB

By On April 10, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Mish-Mosh

I left work during the Brewer’s home opener today and was listening to the game on the radio on my way. When I got home, I figured surely it would be on TV… it’s the home opener! I turned on my TV, changed it to the channel that had the Brewers game listed, and selected it. Now what am I watching instead of the game? A black screen with plain white text reading “FCC Rules mandate that this program be blacked out in your area.”

What. The. Fuck.

So I try to stream AM 620 over the ‘net. Here’s the message on their website: “SPORTS TEAMS RETAIN THEIR OWN INTERNET AUDIO STREAMING RIGHTS. We are not able to stream any sports play-by-play broadcasts. That means you will not be able to hear any Brewers, Bucks, Packers or Badgers games through this site.” That’s bullshit. If I had a radio, I could listen to it, but if I try to stream the exact same broadcast over the Internet, it’s illegal? This licensing crap has gone too far. All I wanted to do was watch my team’s home opener when I got home from work, but instead the MLB would rather lose me entirely as a viewer for the day.

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  • http://25creamcity.blogspot.com MsQuarter

    For the day? That BS puts me in mind to drop them completely. It does not, as Time Warner would like to believe, encourage me to purchase an irrelevant MLB package on top of my already exorbitant cable package.