The current problem with all of these deals is blacked out games. I subscribe to the NHL GameCenter (same thing, different sport) and for the money you pay, the things you can&#x27;t watch are ridiculous (it&#x27;s worse than the NBA one). Only out of market games are allowed, no nationally televised games (always considered &quot;in market,&quot; even if they&#x27;re showing on obscure channels), and the NHL doesn&#x27;t give you <i>any</i> of the post season. I follow an out of town team that&#x27;s bad, so it works for me.<p>It&#x27;s the weird straddling of &quot;old model&quot; and &quot;new model,&quot; and the big players trying to catch up while keeping contracts happy. Up until this year, for example, when I watched my team play on their home channel, I&#x27;d get all the commercials too. So, same as being in-state. Now I just get a message about a commercial break.<p>The weird crux of it all is that you <i>can</i> watch many of the games if you want to wait 48 hours after the broadcast ends. However, in a world so connected, even not being on social media, even following a team 2,000 miles away from me, it&#x27;s <i>still</i> hard to be purposefully oblivious to what&#x27;s happening.<p>I was sorta hoping the next round of contracts would leap the content divide and make streaming a first-class citizen along the rest (I don&#x27;t mind watching commercials while streaming, I&#x27;d assume that would just make those spots even more lucrative.) But it looks like we&#x27;re still a couple years away from that.