Sunbelt/ESPN deal

[zephyr]

What I don't understand is why can we watch Baseball on Cox but not football or basketball?

[GeauxLouisiana]

What I don't understand is why can we watch Baseball on Cox but not football or basketball?

My best guess is due to football and basketball contracts that the SBC has with ESPN. No such deal for baseball broadcasts

[CajunPride]

Cox has new deal and the schedule is out for all sports.

[axg8750]

This week the baseball games have been blacked out for me in Denver.

[CajunVic]

I believe that if you are anywhere in the country that Cox provides cable services, unless you have Cox cable, it will be blacked out and you won't get the games that Cox Sports produces.

[facelessjonmoon]

A good VPN can get around the cox blocks amirite

[CajunDreDog]

A good VPN can get around the cox blocks amirite

Yep

[CajunMarineBBK]

I watched last night game out here in New Mexico on watch espn.

[Cajun90]

Well ESPN+ launched today. It is going to be interesting to see how this all works out.

One thing of concern is that as of this moment there is apparently no commercial license for +.

For those that don't know if you are a bar/restaurant you pay a fairly hefty price for cable/satellite to broadcast sporting events and with that comes the right to show content that is displayed over WatchESPN.

As of right now it doesn't appear that avenue exist for ESPN+. IF that remains true then this could be a problem considering the new SBC contract that will push many of our games to the ESPN+ platform.

I'm going to keep digging but as of now it doesn't look good.

[CajunPride]

With my luck, as soon as I spend the time and money to figure out how those VPN's work, they will become obsolete.