O/T Questions for someone in the US or understands the TV market

[MillersTime]

No you can't. Your local cable/satellite provider are only able to supply your local sports channel and in fact there is an additional (but not optional much to Mrs. CA's chagrin) monthly fee associated with it. There is also a similar non-optional fee associated with the local TV/news channels (like you getting Calendar/Look North).As you said, the only way to get out of market coverage is to buy a package.

Interesting, still makes me wonder if you live in LA would you get Lakers or Clippers? Or can you choose? Perhaps I should have a little Google. I wonder why the Premier league etc haven't gone down the same route with club channels for games, similar to ifollow but domestically. Perhaps limiting supply keeps up the demand. And the well worn out excuse of 3pm attendances being hurt.

[CAMiller]

Interesting, still makes me wonder if you live in LA would you get Lakers or Clippers? Or can you choose? Perhaps I should have a little Google. I wonder why the Premier league etc haven't gone down the same route with club channels for games, similar to ifollow but domestically. Perhaps limiting supply keeps up the demand. And the well worn out excuse of 3pm attendances being hurt.

Don't know about LA but in the SF Bay area you got both Giants/A's MLB and 49ers/Raiders NFL on the local channel. Luckily there's no such thing as the 3pm Saturday timeline here for any of the sports and obviously due to the time zone variances. When I was there Mrs. CA loved me doing the 80 mile round trip to a 7pm Saturday A's game that went to extra innings, finished at 11:30, home at 12:30 to get up and leave again the next morning for a 1pm Sunday game