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or is close to being sold out by the deadline the team can sometimes request a time extension furthermore broadcasters with nfl contracts are required to show their markets road games even if the secondary markets have substantial fanbases for other teams like in harrisburg pennsylvania officially a baltimore ravens secondary market but home to many pittsburgh steelers fans citation needed sometimes when if a game is within a few hundred tickets of selling out a broadcaster example needed with rights to show the nearly sold out game will buy the remaining tickets and give them to local charities so it can broadcast the game other teams elect to close off sections of their stadium but cannot sell these tickets for any game that season if they choose to do so 60 as a result if the home team s game is a sunday day game both networks can air only one game each in that market until 2000 this rule applied whether or not the game was blacked out however this was changed because some markets virtually never aired doubleheaders as a result usually but not always when each network can show only one game each in a market the two stations work out between themselves which will show an early game and which will show a late game this only affects the primary market and not markets in a 75 mile 121 km radius which always get a doubleheader each sunday for the nfl international series the network broadcasting an international series game will not have the game blacked out for the team s markets as the game is played outside of the united states however some blackout regulations do apply there have been two exceptions to the rule of which one has never been implemented and the other no longer applies the first is for the green bay packers which have two overlapping 75 mile blackout zones one surrounding the team s stadium in green bay and another surrounding milwaukee the team s radio flagship station is in milwaukee and the packers played part of their home schedule in milwaukee from 1953 through 1994 however this policy has never been implemented in the packers case as they have sold out every home game in green bay since 1960 and have a decades long season ticket waiting list games in milwaukee also sold out during this period the second exception was for the bills toronto series by a technicality rogers communications the team s lessee owned all tickets to those games and resold them to potential fans even when rogers failed to sell all of the tickets they were still technically defined to be sellouts by the league since rogers was said to have bought the tickets the technicality came into play for both toronto series preseason games and again for the last two regular season games of the series 61 62 the bills toronto series was cancelled after the 2013 season largely due to the aforementioned lackluster attendance in june 2012 nfl blackout regulations were revised in which for the first time in nfl history home games would no longer require a total sellout to be televised locally instead teams would be allowed to set a benchmark anywhere from 85 to 100 percent of the stadium s non premium seats any seats sold beyond that benchmark are subject to heavier revenue sharing with the league 63 four teams the buffalo bills the cleveland browns the indianapolis colts and the san diego chargers opted out of the new rules as it would require the teams to pay a higher percentage of gate fees to the nfl s revenue fund 64 in the 2013 nfl season the oakland raiders began to artificially limit the capacity of oakland coliseum by 11 000 in order to improve their chances of meeting the 85 threshold the seats comprised sections of mount davis an extended upper deck that had originally been built as part of the raiders 1995 return to oakland under nfl rules the stadium had to remain in this configuration for the entirety of the season 65 in the 2015 nfl season the league after no games were blacked out at all in the 2014 season voted to suspend the blackout policy as an experiment 66 the suspension continued into the 2016 season a season that included the return of the rams to the los angeles memorial coliseum as an interim home until the completion of sofi stadium the coliseum has had long standing issues with nfl sell outs commissioner roger goodell stated that the league needed to further investigate the impact of removing the blackout rules before such a change is made permanent 67 the suspension quietly continued into the 2017 nfl season as well which saw the san diego chargers also relocate to los angeles temporarily using the 27 000 seat soccer specific dignity health sports park known as stubhub center before 2019 as an interim venue until the completion of sofi stadium for the 2020 season which is shared with the rams 68 the suspension came a year after the federal communications commission fcc ended a policy that formally forbade multichannel television providers from distributing telecasts of sporting events that had been blacked out by local broadcast television stations then fcc chairman tom wheeler considered such policies to be obsolete 69 the policies are still enforced via contractual agreements between the nfl and its media partners 70 71 72 exclusivity of local simulcasts for cable and streaming games edit per nfl policies all games that are exclusively televised on pay television or streaming including espn s monday night football and amazon prime video s thursday night football are syndicated to over the air broadcasters in the markets of the teams involved and blacked out on the cable channel in defense of the local simulcast the local market for these rights is defined as any station within the 75 mile 121 km radius of a team s respective stadium when this happens the cable network affected closes in the region with cable operators choosing to either leave the space blank for the duration of the game or replacing it with a relay of another station this policy attracted controversy in december 2007 when hartford connecticut cbs affiliate wfsb was refused permission to air the local simulcast of a new england patriots new york giants game on december 29 2007 the game which was part of the thursday night football package on nfl network would see the patriots attempt to become the first nfl team since 1972 and the expansion of the regular season to 16 games to finish the regular season undefeated at the time nfl network was available only on a sports tier of cable provider comcast in the immediate viewing areas of the patriots and giants 73 senator john kerry and rep ed markey both of the state of massachusetts and fans of the patriots team wrote to the nfl as well as comcast and time warner cable to request that the patriots giants game be aired at least on basic cable in order to reach the highest possible number of television viewing fans citing the potentially historic nature of the game 74 kerry clarified the next week that he did not intend to interrupt current negotiations between the cable operators and nfl 75 on december 19 2007 joe courtney and other members of the connecticut congressional delegation wrote to nfl commissioner roger goodell to try to have the nfl allow wider broadcast access to the game 73 consequently on december 26 the nfl announced that the game would be simulcast nationally on cbs and nbc in addition to wcvb tv abc in boston and wwor tv mynetworktv in secaucus new jersey which is part of the new york city media market which had both acquired the local rights to the game 76 although nfl network would later become more established in 2014 the nfl began to sub license the right to produce the thursday night football telecasts and air selected games from the package in simulcast with nfl network to a broadcast television rightsholder initially cbs this was part of a move to help heighten the profile of the fledgling thursday night games 77 78 radio broadcasts edit for radio broadcasts the nfl follows a nearly identical policy to mlb there are no radio blackouts but only each team s flagship station can carry local broadcasts during the conference championships or super bowl all other markets must carry the nfl on westwood one feed for those games for all other weeks within 75 miles of a team s stadium only stations the team or its flagship station contracts with can carry those games regardless if the team is home or away thus any competing station that carries westwood one broadcasts cannot air those games like mlb the nfl makes local broadcasts except for those of the tennessee titans available on nfl s game pass service and sirius satellite radio as a result radio stations that carry nfl games from any source and stream on the internet are prohibited from streaming games online outside of their dma although it seems this provision is loosely enforced in some cases wbbm in chicago and wwl am in new orleans regularly air live broadcasts of their teams games over their internet stream as does wtmj in milwaukee with the packers though both stations went to a desktop only streaming policy in 2015 due to the introduction of gamepass and the absorption of the nfl audio pass streaming system into game pass since the 2022 23 season wxtb the bucs flagship station blacks out coverage on all devices unless in the station s coverage area likely due to the launch of nfl sports broadcasting act of 1961 edit in order to protect high school and college football the federal sports broadcasting act of 1961 cancels antitrust protection for television broadcasts of any professional football game on friday evenings after after 6 00 p m or saturdays by television stations within 75 miles 121 km of the venue of a college or high school game that had been announced in a general circulation newspaper prior to august 1 of the calendar year this lasts from the second friday in september through the second saturday in december 79 80 to comply with this law the nfl largely avoids scheduling games on fridays at all and saturdays altogether until the final weeks of the regular season which begin in mid december which usually feature several saturday double or triple headers 81 79 82 83 a notable effect of this law occurred in the 2004 nfl season where a tennessee titans miami dolphins game in week 1 was moved up to saturday september 11 due to hurricane ivan presumably to comply with the act the game was only broadcast locally and blacked out on nfl sunday ticket 79 as part of thursday night football the nfl has scheduled a black friday game on the day after thanksgiving since 2023 the game has always been scheduled as an afternoon game with a 3 p m et kickoff usually ending near or just after 6 p m since 2024 when week 1 lands on the first friday an additional friday night game is played at 8 p m et that night if it lands on the second friday an additional week of saturday games will be played at the end of the season 84 85 86 indianapolis 500 edit to encourage local attendance indianapolis motor speedway ims enforces a blackout on the live television broadcast of the indianapolis 500 in the indianapolis media market if the race is not a sellout since 1992 the station that airs the race in the indianapolis market abc affiliate wrtv from 1986 to 2018 nbc affiliate wthr from 2019 to 2024 and fox affiliate wxin from 2025 onward airs the race on tape delay in prime time and carries the network s prime time programming in the race s timeslot under special dispensation from the network 87 prior to 1986 abc had aired an edited broadcast of the race in prime time 88 89 the blackout has only been lifted six times since live flag to flag coverage of the 500 officially began in 1986 due to sellouts in 2016 87 2021 90 2025 91 and 2026 92 a weather delay in 2024 93 and the 2020 edition being held with no spectators due to the covid 19 pandemic 94 until 2001 the same blackout policy applied to the brickyard 400 a nascar cup series event also held at ims at the time television rights to nascar events were sold by the owners of their respective tracks 95 and ims had packaged the 400 with abc s rights to the indianapolis 500 96 this policy ended in 2001 when nascar centralized the television rights to all events and sold them in two packages to fox sports and nbc tnt respectively 95 non sports blackouts edit there have been examples of u s network affiliates selectively blacking out episodes of television programs typically due to censorship for political or religious reasons due to then owner lamar life insurance company s support of racial segregation wlbt in jackson mississippi frequently preempted nbc programming that prominently featured african american actors or themes of racial justice segments of nbc news programs containing coverage of the civil rights movement were blacked out with the station typically claiming that the interruptions were actually technical faults in 1969 as a result of these and other instances of biased coverage deemed to violate the fairness doctrine of the era the fcc revoked lamar s broadcast license and transferred wlbt to a racially integrated transitional ownership group 97 98 99 a 1963 episode of the cbs television drama series east side west side focusing on an african american couple in harlem was blacked out by network affiliates in shreveport louisiana ksla and atlanta georgia waga tv 100 in 1997 wbma lp in birmingham alabama blacked out the ellen episode the puppy episode where the title character came out as a lesbian due to concerns over its content 101 in 2004 sinclair broadcast group ordered its abc affiliates to not air an episode of nightline where anchor ted koppel would read the names of united states casualties in the iraq war arguing that it appeared to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the united states in iraq 102 103 in 2017 nbc owned and operated station wvit in connecticut blacked out an episode of sunday night with megyn kelly due to its inclusion of a segment featuring radio host and conspiracy theorist alex jones the preemption was due to sensitivity issues relating to jones denial of the sandy hook elementary school shooting 104 105 salt lake city s ksl tv an nbc affiliate owned by the lds church s commercial broadcasting arm bonneville international has a long history of having declined to air specific nbc and earlier cbs programs that it believed were contradictions of mormon values in most cases these programs are usually sub licensed to another station in the market instead such as kucw or kmyu 106 107 preventing them from being unavailable entirely 108 109 110 references edit unplugging a nation hein online fletcher retrieved october 23 2015 1 2 election night results blackout a thing of the past cbc news retrieved october 17 2015 supreme court upholds blackout on early election night results cbc news cbc ca june 26 2007 retrieved november 4 2014 taber jane august 17 2011 lift election night blackout and 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