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Originally Posted by Fish
Because they are legally bound by geographical viewership restrictions like any other service provider. Things such as sports blackouts and other media that's region based. It's not just the user's personal preference for local channels.
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Well thank you, you're first person that's explained that. YTTV Customer Service refused to give me that information.
I still think there has to be a better mousetrap and I'm still really not clear how doing what I suggested still wouldn't accomplish that. In fact, what they're doing is JUST THE OPPOSITE. I live in Jefferson City, but I can watch whatever St Louis can get. How does that accomplish what you're referring to? It's literally just the opposite of forcing people to watch the programming in their own geographic area.
In fact, I used this very thing to get around watching my local ABC station here a few weeks ago. I wanted to watch the network shows one night and our local affiliate decided to pre-empt the programming to show hockey. So I deleted my YTTV app and reinstalled it and it defaulted me to St Louis and I could watch network programming not shown in my area.