Well folks, I'm just looking for a solution..... To the Direct TV blackout imposed by SPORT TV GODS at the beginning of this season......  I have had the pleasure of watching the Cardinals on Fox Midwest for countless years now..  All of sudden first pitch Tuesday Nite & the screen goes black....  How rude is that......

 In talking to DTV reps they suggest we are now an out of market  zip code,61853.  Although the DTV website still says we are an in market  zip along with the CUBS & SOX...  Question is if we actually are out of market, then we should be allowed to purchase & see the Cardinals on  "Extra Innings"   That package has been specifically advertised to include all out of market games....But NOTT!   So as it is folks,  the Champaign area on DTV & Dish are completely blacked out from viewing any & all Cardinal games.  Including ESPN games.....

I know Cards fans farther south may not give a care about this,but please your Cardinal brothers & sisters farther north need your political ump to get something done with these 100% black outs....  Its not just here.. There are mega zip codes involved that want nothing to do with CUBisim....  We have no other media outlet solutions here.... Although Insight cable just added MIDWEST to their unaccessable network last season in Champaign.  DTV in March finalized their DTV "EI" deal for seven years & this is the result......(Even MLB TV has us blocked out via internet feed).

I would love to drop my Direct TV....  If our  local  Media Com cable would pick the Cardinals up via MIDWEST, but NOTT!! once again....

We Cardinal Fans are dieing on the CUB Vine up here in BLACKED OUT land.... The cross/roads of the great rivalry....  Solutions,help,suggestions anything to get this back where it was last season....  DTV openly allowed us to continue purchasing these packages with no notification from them to subscribers affected.... I feel completely violated by whom ever instigated this deal....   Whom is it Midwest,Direct TV/DISH or MLB........??? or the CABLE companies??

I'm ready to buy, but no offering to get the CARDINALS.......  This is nothing less than a sick segragation of dedicated Cardinal baseball fans for no apparent reason..   The only message I get is that somebody just doesn't want my money.... Can ya believe it in this day and age??    Technology was supposed to improve our lives, not BLACK US OUT for life...

Would love some constructive feedback...     FRUSTRATED  SJDBarney1

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