March Madness continues to push streaming coverage of online sports, beyond the limits of regional television stations . All 67 games in the NCAA basketball tournament will be broadcast live for sports fans in the United States. But if you are out of the country, you are locked out of the game - unless you have a VPN to hide your IP address and change it to one of the United States
March Madness is. a single elimination tournament, with the best American college teams. It opens March 19 with 64 teams and ends in the final on April 8. It is known to avid fans establishment of paris office pools, the reorganization of working hours, and with their social lives revolve around the tournament. Over 20 million viewers across the United States watched March Madness last year on their TVs. Increasingly, they also follow the action on their smartphones and tablets, with over 1.1 million unique visits per day on the site of the NCAA at the event.
March Madness this year will be another test case of a limited pay wall in action: NCAA March Madness App Live®. If you are already a subscriber of pay television, this application allows you to obtain continuous access to games through all your no additional cost display devices. As a teaser added for 2013 NCAA March Madness Live® gives all users up to four hours of free live game before requiring registration. Last year, it cost $ 3.99. And another plus for 2013, games broadcast on CBS TV will be broadcast on CBSSports.com.
The tournament has a huge base of fans online. For comparison, 2013 Super Bowl attracted three million unique viewers online for an afternoon event. March Madness brings over a million viewers on average each day throughout the tournament.
And like the Super Bowl, online sports will probably be limited to viewers with an American GeoIP. Try to look at from a location in the UK or Germany, and you'll probably see just a gray screen and a message "data loading error".
This is a shortsighted policy, especially given the popularity of basketball in the world. You must not be a graduate of Gonzaga University to appreciate "good game." Why hijack a global audience? And why restrict the fans who are abroad because of work or studies
Sports fans outside the US has few options: you can find a sports bar "American" look streaming video from sources of questionable P2P, or just use the Hotspot Shield VPN connection to hide your IP address and unblock restrictions CBSSports.com. Now that something to celebrate.
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