Vikings Blackout

OK I live in Hudson and have resigned myself to the fact that all home games will be blacked out. How far into Wisconsin do I have to drive to get past the blackout.

All home games blacked out? How would you know this? Put down the and step away from the computer.

I doubt you’ll see a blackout in the first 6 weeks. After that, when we are 2-4 with Tjack and Fumblecopter fighting for the QB job, well, I hope they black out the games. I hope nobody buys tickets to show the ownership they have to put a good product on the field. The vikings have made a colossal mistake by not getting a real QB. Amazing talent all around with an idiot at the wheel still leads to a wreck. Thank god this is Childress last year here!!!!!

IF, and I mean IF the Queens are blacked out, the cable in Hudson carries the Eau Claire stations and we’d get the games if the Pack aren’t on at the same time.

ET

There’s only a chance of a blackout in the first 8 weeks. After that Ol’ #4 will be coming in November so no more worries!!!!!

I think you might be driving the wrong way if you want to go deeper into Packer territory to watch the Queens.

I can see why you would want to stay in Wisconsin but the Queens? head west not east.

Considering the home opener is agains the 49ers I think we will be talking possible blackout right away. To answer your question, i think that the blackout radius is 90 miles.

I think the radius is actually 75 miles. I also don’t think an Eau Claire cable station can air a Vikings game in Hudson if it is blacked out. To answer the intial question, I think you would have to go at least to Eau Claire to watch the Viking game if it is blacked out. Any bar down there with the NFL ticket could show the game.

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NFL Blackout Policy
Written by Maury Brown
Friday, 03 July 2009 05:57
BROADCASTING POLICIES

Glossary of Terms
Franchised Market – television market (ADI or DMA) that has an NFL franchise (i.e. Buffalo, NY or Phoenix, AZ).
Secondary Blackout Market – television market in the home territory (with station(s) having signal penetration to within 75 miles of the game site) of an NFL franchise that is subject to blackout restrictions.
Early Game – Game with kickoff at 1:05 p.m. (Eastern Time).
Late Game – Game with kickoff at 4:05 or 4:15 p.m. (Eastern Time).

Blackout Policy
To ensure an NFL club’s ability to sell all of its game tickets, and to make televised games more attractive to viewers through the presence of sellout crowds, the following policy is observed by the NFL:

For a home game to be aired locally in the franchised market and in any secondary blackout market(s), the game must be sold out 72 hours in advance of kickoff. If the game is not a sellout by the 72 hour cutoff, both the home franchised market and the secondary markets of the carrying network will air an alternate game.

Number of Games in a Market
With regard to the number of NFL games seen in a particular market on a Sunday afternoon, there are three different situations.

An NFL franchised market (i.e. New York, Chicago, Dallas, etc.).
On a week when the NFL team (or teams) in a market is on the ROAD Sunday, Monday or Thursday night or Saturday afternoon, the market will receive three Sunday afternoon games… two telecasts by the network with the doubleheader week and one game by the network with the single game week. When an NFL team in the market is playing at HOME on Sunday afternoon, the market will receive two games… one game on FOX and one game on CBS, regardless of which network has the doubleheader week. Unless 1) the home team’s assigned telecaster that day (CBS or FOX) is also on the doubleheader network and 2) the game is sold out 72 hours in advance. Then the three games would be the home team’s and two other games in the remaining early or late window.
All other television markets (including secondary blackout markets).
Network affiliates in these markets will receive three games on Sunday afternoon, two on the doubleheader network (one early and one late) and one game on the single game network (either early or late).
Selection of Games to be Telecast Regionally
By network contract, all team road games must be telecast back to that team’s home territory (franchised market and secondary blackout markets).

Other than the above requirement, the televising network is the sole selector of which game(s) will be aired in all markets.

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Who cares how far you have to travel its the childress lead vikings you could be fiji and you still know the “IDIOT” head coach will screw it up and make you wish the game was blacked out!!!!!!!!!!!! How long till hockey season?