Originally posted by Russell Jaslow
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My mother lives in Michigan, but is considered to be in both Milwaukee's market (4 hours, 250 miles from MKE) and Detroit's market (9 hrs, 550 miles)
But, she only receives Fox Sports Detroit as her "regional sports net" from DirecTV because she is a Michigan resident and not a Wisconsin one.
For her to get to watch FS-Wisconsin, a channel that is also her HOME market, she needs to pay DirecTV for the sports pack (which unlocks all regional networks) or the premium tier (which unlocks every channel but PPV).
And using the password to stream (because she's had the sports pack from long before she was considered in MKE's territory)? Fox Sports Online claims her DirecTV login is only good to stream FS-Detroit. She's blacked out from streaming FS-Wisconsin even in her house.
Meanwhile, I live in Chicago where the local cable company Xfinity gave two big middle fingers to the Cubs and Sinclair and refuse to carry their new "Marquee Network."
The Cubs can't even be viewed in their home territory by their own fans at home via cable.
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