And here in Nebraska, soon to be a Big Ten state, there are rumors that Dish's agreement with the Big Ten will have to be renewed before the Big Ten Network can be made available in Nebraska without Multi-Sport. When July 1 comes around (Nebraska's "official" entry date) it will be interesting to see if that's the case. In Omaha, the regionals are FSN Midwest, Root Sports RM (formerly FSNRM), and Altitude. However, Rockies games on RSRM are blacked out for 3 hours, and Royals games are almost always on a FSMW alt feed, for Kansas City, in SD. The KC Royals are the ONLY MLB team considered local; for other sports, it's the Colorado teams -- Nuggets, Avalanche, Rapids -- all on Altitude. Pretty sure I don't even get the KC MLS team. Only consolation is I can get the Cubs on WGN and local sports bars always have the Cubs on, I can at least get the tail-end of quite a few Rockies games in HD, and I actually enjoy watching the Nuggets.
Yet if I were to "move" my account just four miles away, to an Iowa location, I'd still be within the Omaha market for local broadcast channels but would instead get six MLB teams, including the Cubs(!) and no question about whether or not I'd get the Big Ten Network w/o Multi-Sport. Only thing holding me back is not wanting to go through the hassle of a "move" as well as losing Root Sports and Altitude programming, including Nuggets games, Big 12 and soon-to-be-Pac 12 sports on Altitude and Root, respectively, and the ninth-inning of some Rockies games. Hmm.
