Marvin said:
Can someone with Fubo, or otherwise IT-inclined, explain why I can't get Space City when on the road? I've even used a VPN and it doesn't show as a listing in the guide. Any secret to this?
What about an MLB account... can I watch the Astros if not located in the market? I spend every other week out of state, but I don't want to pay for it only to find out that my billing address blacks the games out no matter my location.
TIA
The short answer is that MLB owns the out of market rights to the regional broadcasts. To protect the revenue from that package they require any "over the top" (streaming) to authenticate both your in market subscription with cable/satellite/fubo and your current location by zip code. Early on the Fox regions negotiated what were euphemistically called "couch rights" which would allow streamers to authenticate you even if in a zip code outside the teams territory so long as you established your presence back in territory within 30 days (retroactively). If you are constantly in and out of market you historicly should have been ok, but since MLB has taken over some of the team rights and Bally (formerly Fox) is now in bankruptcy, them may have rolled back the couch rights.
Sorry, probably more than you wanted to know.
