I Can Not DVR/TIVO the Kings Game
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I think it is since I'm in Southern California. I don't know if they do it around the rest of the country, but a lot of times here, if a team isn't selling out their games, they won't televise them so that people have to buy tickets to go. They did that with the Chargers here a few years ago when they were terrible. Pretty lame.
While I do not subscribe to DirecTV (I abhor satellite), I have some experience in this:
When I was stationed in Hawaii, we got our network television feeds from Los Angeles. This, in turn, meant that we got FSN West (Lakers) and FSN West-2 (Clippers). When I subscribed to League Pass, I noticed that whenever Clippers and Lakers games came on, that they were blacked out on League Pass, but continued to play just fine on their respective FSN channels.
When I got transferred to Bremerton, the closest team was the Supersonics on FSN Northwest, and the same thing happened; Sonics games were "blacked" out on League Pass, but shown on FSN... After I got back home to Virginia, I noticed the same thing applied for Wizards games on CSN.
So, if your "local" team is blacked out on League Pass, you might want to check your TV listings to find out what local channel the game is on. I can't answer for football, though, as I don't watch it.
When I was stationed in Hawaii, we got our network television feeds from Los Angeles. This, in turn, meant that we got FSN West (Lakers) and FSN West-2 (Clippers). When I subscribed to League Pass, I noticed that whenever Clippers and Lakers games came on, that they were blacked out on League Pass, but continued to play just fine on their respective FSN channels.
When I got transferred to Bremerton, the closest team was the Supersonics on FSN Northwest, and the same thing happened; Sonics games were "blacked" out on League Pass, but shown on FSN... After I got back home to Virginia, I noticed the same thing applied for Wizards games on CSN.
So, if your "local" team is blacked out on League Pass, you might want to check your TV listings to find out what local channel the game is on. I can't answer for football, though, as I don't watch it.
I have no problems recording the Kings games either on Comcast (656) or Channel 10 on Direct TV. I have a wishlist and it automatically picks up every Kings game, regardless of which channel it's on. On another Tivo where I don't have the wishlist set up, I can manually record with no problems.
As VF21 said: it may be time to call DirecTV tech support...
Insyder: you may want to check to make sure that your wishlist is set to record programs automatically. If it is, you may want to remove the wishlist and recreate it. There was a software update a while ago that I think caused some problems with wishlists, so you may be experiencing this.
Offtopic, but of interest to kings fans with DirecTV: is everyone aware that it is fairly easy to increase storage capacity in your Tivos? It is also legal and does not create any issues with Tivo or DirecTV. My largest Tivo stores over 500 hours... plenty of room for LOTS of Kings games!!
As VF21 said: it may be time to call DirecTV tech support...
Insyder: you may want to check to make sure that your wishlist is set to record programs automatically. If it is, you may want to remove the wishlist and recreate it. There was a software update a while ago that I think caused some problems with wishlists, so you may be experiencing this.
Offtopic, but of interest to kings fans with DirecTV: is everyone aware that it is fairly easy to increase storage capacity in your Tivos? It is also legal and does not create any issues with Tivo or DirecTV. My largest Tivo stores over 500 hours... plenty of room for LOTS of Kings games!!
It is, however, possible that the rights to a game have been sold to either the local or national market and League Pass is therefore blacked out, but the broadcaster with the rights decides to no air the game (for whatever reason). When that happens, you're out of luck. It doesn't happen here anymore, but when FSN and Channel 31 used to get the rights to the games sometimes they would do this. Maybe that's what happening in SoCal?
