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Originally Posted by gh4chiefs
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.
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YoutubeTV is doing its due diligence in requesting you to verify your location. When that happens, YoutubeTV queries your IP address. Which is provided by Verizon. The problem is that Verizon's internet is cellular based which is load balanced by many multiple towers in different locations that could theoretically be in different viewing areas as classified by YoutubeTV's coverage maps. Your devices are obviously getting an IP address that is sourced from the St. Louis area.
Note that Verizon does offer a fix for the issue. You can upgrade to their Business plan and get a static IP address which would solve the problem.