No Steelers pre season on Time Warner or Dish Network

By Tom Lavery

Erie-Meadville: Monday's sports section featured an article concerning the blackout of the Steelers / Packers pre season game. The game was on Fox Sports Pittsburgh but was not available for Time Warner customers in Erie county. I checked Dish Network & the game was also blacked out there and probably on Directv as well. I wasn't upset because I could watch it on KDKA HD or WYFX / WFXI SD (which is on WKBN's digital sub channel.) I also put on the Browns / Chiefs game on WYTV HD. The reporter on the article said that it's probably due to Erie being a Buffalo Bills market. It just doesn't make sense to black out the Steelers or Browns if the Bills are not even playing on the same night (or even on the same channel.) Sheesh, blackouts during pre season. Now I've seen (or not seen) everything.

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Posted at August 13, 2007 at 07:40 am by






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Just wanted to let you know that Direct TV did air the game. I was on KDKA and Fox Sports and the Pirate game was covered on UPN
Clint Phillips - August 13, 2007 at 5:25 pm

Sorry. I don’t know where my head was. It was on My Pittsburgh TV
Clint Phillips - August 13, 2007 at 5:35 pm

  
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