Dish Network Blackout Policy

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Dear Dish Network,

We the undersigned, through this letter, demand that you reevaluate your technology, policies, and procedures in regards to Major League Baseball game "blackouts". In addition, you should be working with Major League Baseball and all of the Regional Sports Networks, to serve your customers appropriately in the area(s) they reside.

Fans of baseball are being denied the right to watch their local teams by some policy that is not even being applied correctly. A simple check on MLB.com of any town's Zip Code, tells you what baseball teams games you are ENTITLED to watch. Yet so many fans are being blacked out of them, and then told its not Dish Networks decision.

However, fans that live in the same Zip Code but use a Cable TV Provider, are receiving the games. Something is clearly wrong with this system.
Please note that while this is specifically directed to Dish Network, the petition is also going to be forwarded to the following organizations:

- Major League Baseball (Corporate)
- Major League Baseball (Individual Teams)
- DirecTV
- All Major Cable TV Providers
- The Federal Communications Commission
- The U.S. House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet

Either some providers are breaking Major League Baseball policy, or the blackout system data is horribly wrong and outdated. (In the past, this has happened when youve added or changed Zip Codes in your system).

However, that is no excuse.

The end result is that fans like us lose out on something our PAID subscriptions entitle us to watch.

151 Signatures

  • Claudia Carvajal
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • CT - Red Sox, Mets
  • Jerry Massey
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Washington Nationals/Baltimore Orioles - Washington DC DMA
  • Brad Nagel
  • Mike Wall (Petition organizer)
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Connecticut - Red Sox
  • Craig Mitchell
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • KC Royals
  • Steve Flahiff
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Detroit Tigers
  • Michael Roth
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • I'm not in the Chicago Cubs/White Sox area, so I'm blacked out of Comcast coverage, as I should be. But Dish also blocks my coverage of those games on ESPN!!!
  • Chris Hartman
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Cubs blacked out and I live in SW Michigan, just across Lake Michigan (1 1/2 hours away) but am stuck with Tigers who are 3-4 hours away from me
  • Timmy T. Tooth
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • JAX I WANT MY SEATTLE MARINERS. FIX IT yOU idIOTs
  • Thomas Hamaty
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Phillies blacked out of 16823 (only Pirates should be blacked out)
  • MARK
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Baseball
  • Matt Ritter
  • Peter Glavin
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Yankees, Mets
  • Arthur Zepeda
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Visalia (93277) Oakland Raiders/ SF Giants/ Golden State Warriors
  • Jennifer Rozum
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Las Vegas - San Francisco Giants
  • Gabriel Perez
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Puerto Rico 00769
  • Jeff Karch
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • KS Royals
  • Ricky Buchanan
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • i live over 250 miles from any mlb park and still blacked out
  • Larry Shermak
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • I want to watch the CUBS!!!!!! I live in SW Lower Michigan which is closer but I can get the Tigers which are twice as far as Chicago. MAKES NO SENSE!!!!!!
  • Tim
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • St. Louis. Detroit Tigers Blacked out.
  • Tom Thomas
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • red sox blacked out in MI
  • Craig
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • FSN Detroit blackout in Jacksonville, Florida!!
  • Charles Brown
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • When I ordered they said I would be able to watch the dodgers on fox sport network sports package.They lied...
  • Demetrios Tsillas
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Cannot watch NY Mets games from Boston area
  • Tony Monroe
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Oakland, San Francisco
  • Mike Donahue
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • yankees games, I'm 4 hours outside the city. Why can't I watch them beat the Red Sox?
  • denis sanchez
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • ALL MLB TEAMS
  • Justin Palmer
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Pretty much all of them... Red Sox are the team I wish to see though.
  • Jon Herold
  • Kithy Elliott
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Milwaukee Brewers
  • Mike
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • SF/A's Games Bay area..I should be able to watch A's & Giants games when they are not brodcast on local Area (ie comast Sports BAyarea & Channel 11 & Channel 36)
  • Tigh Savercool
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Harrisburg, PA: Philadelphia Phillies and Philadelphia Flyers
  • mike mccolloch
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • dallas, tx
  • Brian Lorello
  • Brian Lorello
  • Tom
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Boston Red Sox blacked out
  • Luke
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Marlins
  • Sebastian Perez
  • Andy Sheely
  • matti way
  • Farhan Ali
  • Andrew
  • bret Ludwig
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Absolutely ridiculous service... Fix it or loose me and other customers.
  • John Horvath
  • Brandon
  • Azim Damani
  • Javacola
  • Robert Meiksins
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Milwaukee Brewers
  • David Lynch
  • dan heuer
    • Comments (Local area and Teams blacked out)
    • Go Cubs Win