Even with inconsequential preseason games, the insatiable quest for profits among the usual suspects is keeping the World Champion Giants off about 94 percent of Hawaii’s television screens.
Blame for this despicable two-year-going-on-three blackout of Giants and A’s games in Hawaii belongs to Time Warner Cable and the two Bay Area sports networks with rights to the teams’ games – and don’t leave out Major League Baseball.
Read the email and letter correspondence in previous posts below and you’ll see finger-pointing all around. MLB executives are content to sit in their VIP box and let the corporations sort it out – fans be damned. The local Time Warner cablecaster says the sports networks want an arm and a leg to carry their games, and the networks think TW is just cheap.
Those attitudes leave Giants and A’s fans SOL, and nobody wearing a suit seems to give a rip. Maybe if every baseball fan in Hawaii who believes this condition must end were to pledge an end to spending money on baseball – games, shirts, everything – somebody in MLB headquarters might wake up.
Like I dont already buy Giants hats and T-shirts. I just want to watch the games, even the MLB iPhone app blocks these games. If I have to sit on a plane for more than 4 hours to see a game, it should not be blocked out
ReplyDeleteGiants and A's Games are also blacked out as far north as Eugene, Oregon, 550 miles away from the bay. I understand that they want people to go to the games but this is ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining the discussion/rant. It's beyond ironic that the first four games of the season (vs. the Dodgers) have been carried "live" in Hawaii under different network circumstances -- Opening Day on ESPN, Friday via the Dodgers' FOX network, Saturday as FOX's Game of the Week and today on ESPN's Sunday Night Game of the Week. After this weekend, it'll be more darkness in Hawaii for the World Champions -- and into other states, according to Anonymous's comment above.
ReplyDeleteChristopher Tully, MLB's Senior VP for Broadcasting, hasn't deigned to answer our letter, which was sent (and posted below) on February 17. That's the indifference that MLB and the corporation bosses continue to show the fan, and it's disgraceful.
I just got off phone with MLB "support". I have the radio subscriptions but I cant see the Free game of the Day. blacked out. My uncle has the .tv app in portland so tried his password for live games and still blacked out. I tried to explain to gentleman in India the distance between San Fran and Hawaii. ANd also thqt the Dodgers are not clacked out but we get them and the Monkey Angels on Fox SPorts.
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WE ARE BLACKED OUT IN ALL OF IDAHO..CRUDY!!!
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