While in New York City, we got our cable through Time Warner. When the Red Sox were home, we got the NESN feed -- all the time. Not only that, but in 2004, almost all of the road games were also NESN.
This season, many more away games have featured the Sox opponents' broadcasters. Which makes no sense to me. Say the Sox are in Kansas City. The EI broadcast will be blacked out in the KC area anyway, so the likely majority of people tuning in to that EI game around the country are Red Sox fans. Give them NESN!
In Mississauga, we are signed up with Rogers Cable. Tonight, with the Sox at home against Baltimore, we were stuck with the Orioles' feed, featuring one of the dumbest baseball "analysts" around, Buck "I'll Tell You What" Martinez. WTF?
Does Rogers Cable (like Time Warner and whoever else around the US and Canada) decide which feed to broadcast by some whim or gut feeling? ... Did people living in NYC with Time Warner receive the O's feed tonight? It seems unlikely.