A meeting between the top brass at Time Warner Cable and Major League Baseball yesterday appears to have addressed a thorny issue where after more than half the season played, NE Ohio subscribers were suddenly blacked out from Pirates and Indians games on MLB Extra Innings (see Ohio Time Warner Cable Subs Get Caught in MLB Blackout Crossfire Over Pirates, Indians, Tigers Games). A league executive said that the blackouts should be lifted today. Time Warner Cable implemented the blackouts after having three operators in the area merge into one.

While the issue of Pirates and Indians are resolved, a separate issue with TWC in the Columbus, Ohio area still has Detroit Tigers fans being blacked out. The league is scrambling to get that mid-season blackout issue resolved, hopefully as early as today, although sources at the league could not confirm whether that would occur.

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Detroit Tigers
written by BrandonTG, August 03, 2011

I was told today that it is a Foxsports Detroit issue however I do not believe this. Could you please keep us posted as to what is going on. I was refused a refund of any kind due to the blackouts and it is getting a bit frusterating to not be able to see the only thing I watch on television which is the Detroit Tigers. I have now missed 7 Tigers games that I have paid for and nothing is being done about it????

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april 11 2012 tigers game
written by a guest, April 12, 2012

i live in 46901 and i am not in the local media market for detroit tigers...i dont have the option to receive FS-D....so i purchased mlb extra innings thru comcast....game on the 11th was blacked out thru mlb EI....comcast says its FS-D's problem. i need some info as to why this happened...comcast also said it was bc they only had 8,000 in attendance?????? what a joke

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