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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They want you to watch on the home network. Like the over the air channel or whatever your local channel is. They get first rights to viewing. If you are outside those areas, they will allow you to watch on a 3rd party app that had those rights.

Get a VPN to bypass some of these restrictions when it comes to streaming location. I used to do that with MLB.tv.

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