How to Watch Out of Network Packers Games
If you live in an area that is not showing the Green Bay Packers game on your local stations, then what you need is a way to watch other local TV stations via streaming.
CUE Broadcast has over 700 channels, including local channels. You can watch the local Green Bay, WI, Madison, WI, or Milwaukee, WI channels (CBS, FOX, ABC, NBC) from wherever you are. It’s $69.99/mo with no fees, no contracts – cancel anytime, like once football season is over.
Blacked Out Packers Games Workaround
If the Green Bay Packers game is blocked or blacked out, chances are, the game is on in another area, so the workaround or hack for being able to watch Packers game when blacked out is local channel streaming, like CUE has.
This does not always cover games on streaming services like Amazon Prime, but it does for some games.
The FCC Must Carry Rule
The NFL mandates that any game distributed by a cable network or digital streaming service must also be broadcast over-the-air on a free, local television channel within the immediate home markets of the two playing teams.
The Defunct NFL “Blackout Rule” (Often Confused with Carriage)
Fans frequently look for rules forcing providers to “carry” a game locally, which recalls the old NFL Blackout Rule.
- Under the old policy, if a team did not sell out a specified percentage of tickets (usually 85% to 100%) 72 hours before kickoff, the game was blocked from being televised locally on broadcast TV.
- The FCC officially eliminated its federal sports blackout regulations in 2014, and the NFL has suspended its own local blackout policies on a year-to-year basis since 2015, meaning local games are practically always televised in their home markets today.
…local commercial and noncommercial television broadcast stations may require a cable operator serving the same market to carry their signals. This demand for carriage is commonly referred to as “must-carry.” If a broadcast station asserts its must-carry rights, it cannot demand compensation from the cable operator for carriage of its signal. While retransmission consent and must-carry are distinct and function separately, they are related in that commercial broadcasters are required to choose once every three years, on a system-by-system basis, whether to obtain carriage or continue carriage by choosing between must carry and retransmission consent. (FCC.gov)
Green Bay WI Local Channels:
- ABC: WBAY 2
- CBS: WFRV 5
- FOX: WLUK 11
- NBC: WGBA 26
Check these local channels in the CUE channel finder.
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