Why do sports teams or broadcasters have blackouts blocking tv viewing?

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I’m 5.5 hours away from the closest team and any home game gets blocked. What’s the point of that? Not only is there 0 chance I’m driving there and back for a game but now I’m not even interested in watching the game or buying gear. Care to explain?

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You might be 5.5 hours away – but is the station broadcasting the game local to you or the team? You would think you would have a station out of the football market you could pick up?

Maybe I’m just confused and they don’t broadcast the game at all now? I’m not huge into sports – but I live within 5.5 hours of 5 NFL teams and if you picked up a different markets station you could bypass the blackout.

The purpose though – they want to sell tickets to the stadium than people watch for free. You just seem to be an edge case of bad luck.

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