Bill Introduced to force all WI Counties to broadcast Packers Games..

I've been hoping this would happen! Here's hoping that the bill advances. Maybe Brewers and Bucks games will be next. I think that all that Comcast in the Twin Cities needs to do is to add Fox Sports Wisconsin to their lineup. 

Well, for the Brewers and Bucks FS Wisconsin would be sufficient.  But for games on broadcast TV it's rather more complicated.  Can't go on the .1 channel because the Viking fans would be pissed off, and lots of cable systems don't carry the digital sub-channels.

Not real sure how it will work, but damn, all GBP fans SHOULD get the games IF they live in Wisconsin.  

Tammy for President.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl...igshid=1i6pvxb4uhl8h   Just posting this here....... guess this could be his one.   

I don't live anywhere near Wisc. but forcing someone to watch Viking games classifies as  cruel and unusual punishment.

Packiderm posted:

I don't live anywhere near Wisc. but forcing someone to watch Viking games classifies as  cruel and unusual punishment.

Oh that is absolutely true and no one should have to endure that.  If you think that is bad where I live all I get is the Browns and Bengals.

It would be easier for DTV to allow the home state residents to tune in to the Sunday ticket channel carrying their home team or allow it to be streamed.  I'm not sure how a WI politician can force an out of state TV station to show anything.   

Really skeptical anything will ever come of it, but not a bad move to make when you're up for reelection.

Eddie posted:

It would be easier for DTV to allow the home state residents to tune in to the Sunday ticket channel carrying their home team or allow it to be streamed.  I'm not sure how a WI politician can force an out of state TV station to show anything.   

Especially the Twin Cities market.  Maybe she's trolling Minnesota members of congress.  

Comcast in the Twin Cities has an open slot in their cable line up from when Esquire channel went defunct. Put Fox Sports Wisconsin there and make those of us along the Minnesota-Wisconsin border happy again. Who knows, I may even support their advertisers.  They can show the Packer games that are scheduled to be aired on CBS when the vikings are on Fox at the same time and then have the Packers' game on Fox Sports Wisconsin if the vikings and Packers are both on Fox at the same time.  I remember the days when the vikings games were blacked out due to them not selling out their games because Pillsbury would not buy up the remaining tickets. They were forced to show the Packer's game by the network, but would break into the Packers broadcast with a vikings update every so often. They just gotta be pests. They'd also make Packers fans buy tickets to other vikings games during the season so those games wouldn't be blacked out. Pathetic!

michiganjoe posted:

Really skeptical anything will ever come of it, but not a bad move to make when you're up for reelection.

This is exactly why she introduced this bill. This has been attempted before several times and was shot down each time. The bar owners in western Wisconsin love things as they are, though.........

The Heckler posted:

Packiderm posted:

I don't live anywhere near Wisc. but forcing someone to watch Viking games classifies as  cruel and unusual punishment.

Oh that is absolutely true and no one should have to endure that.  If you think that is bad where I live all I get is the Browns and Bengals.

I am surprised any human being could maintain sanity and hope after watching that Browns/Bengals level of ineptitude every Sunday.  At least when you do get the rare chance to watch the Packers it restores some level of positivity to your life. 

Still better than being forced to watch the Vikings. In my opinion....

Forced?..There are many options for folks,  the ticket, bars, streaming, mooching off friends or relatives, etc.   I haven't lived in Wisconsin in for 40 years, 30 of them in the Twin Cities and I have missed very few games in all those years.  The TV map comes out on Wednesday that determines if the Packers are on your local channel, if they are you watch at home, if not either listen on radio or make a plan to see the game.....I do it every week, not hard at all.

Stop whining. 

I was a little p-boi when this happened, but I remember my Dad getting so pissed when games in Milwaukee in the 80's (we lived in the metro area) wouldn't get sold out at the old County Stadium and therefore the Packers game would be blacked out here. 

For Lambeau, that hasn't been an issue for decades now. 

I think the NFL got rid of that rule now, yes? Or do markets like Jacksonville (where no one would go to games in the recent past) still enforce it?

The Heckler posted:

Packiderm posted:

I don't live anywhere near Wisc. but forcing someone to watch Viking games classifies as  cruel and unusual punishment.

Oh that is absolutely true and no one should have to endure that.  If you think that is bad where I live all I get is the Browns and Bengals.

Bills, Jets & Giants for me. And if the're not on, it's the Skins, Eagles and for some frikin reason Dallas!