{"id":32545,"date":"2015-03-23T14:33:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T18:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=32545"},"modified":"2015-03-23T14:33:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T18:33:47","slug":"breaking-nfl-to-suspend-blackout-policy-for-2015-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-nfl-to-suspend-blackout-policy-for-2015-season\/","title":{"rendered":"#BREAKING: NFL To Suspend Blackout Policy For 2015 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Breaking: NFL to suspend blackout policy for the 2015 season <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/axRJrBYYW5\">http:\/\/t.co\/axRJrBYYW5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ\/status\/580072145180618752\">March 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Developing.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The <b><a title=\"National Football League\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Football_League\">National Football League<\/a> television blackout policies<\/b> are among the strictest <a title=\"Blackout (broadcasting)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blackout_(broadcasting)\">television blackout<\/a> policies among the <a title=\"Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Major_professional_sports_leagues_in_the_United_States_and_Canada\">four major professional sports league in North America<\/a>. Since <a title=\"1973 NFL season\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1973_NFL_season\">1973<\/a>, the NFL has maintained a blackout policy that states that a home game cannot be televised locally if it is not sold out 72\u00a0hours prior to its start time.<\/p>\n<p>This makes the NFL the only major professional sports league that requires teams to sell out in order to broadcast a game on television locally. Although nationally-televised games in the other leagues are often blacked out on the national networks they are airing on in their local markets, they can still be seen on their local <a title=\"Regional sports network\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Regional_sports_network\">regional sports network<\/a> that normally has their local broadcasting rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking: NFL to suspend blackout policy for the 2015 season http:\/\/t.co\/axRJrBYYW5 \u2014 Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) March 23, 2015 Developing. 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Since 1973, the NFL has maintained a blackout policy that states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":32546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>#BREAKING: NFL To Suspend Blackout Policy For 2015 Season - Breaking911<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-nfl-to-suspend-blackout-policy-for-2015-season\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"#BREAKING: NFL To Suspend Blackout Policy For 2015 Season - Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Breaking: NFL to suspend blackout policy for the 2015 season http:\/\/t.co\/axRJrBYYW5 \u2014 Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) March 23, 2015 Developing. 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