It should really only affect those in the Philadelphia DMA. For Thursday night's game, for example, the national telecast will not be available in New York or Philly, I don't believe. No problem in New York, as most of us would rather listen to Sam and Joe anyway.
But in Philly you will be blacked out of the national telecast, and you also cannot see the local telecast, as DirecTV does not carry Comcast Sportsnet Philadelphia - a saga that has been ongoing for a looooong time. So you are out of luck.
They will be looking through that prism to see that spectrum for a looong time....
The whole saga deals with the old PRISM network, the microwave relay, and the terrestrial exception that CSN-Philly gets as a result of being born out of PRISM.
CSN-Philly is not obligated and cannot be forced to offer its signal to DTV or Dish because they transmit their feed via microwave and not via satellite. Since they cannot be forced to uplink, they will use sports to prop up the cable outfit over the DBS guys...
I have family in PA, and they live in areas where:
1. Their street is not wired for cableTV.
2. They live in what is deemed the Flyer territory.
3. If they sub to DTV or Dish and sub to Center Ice, they cannot receive Flyer games because they are considered "in market" even though they cannot receive CSN-Philly.
So they don't get Flyer games unless they are nationally exclusive ones. They cannot even watch the road team feed if they sub to center ice...
So if you live in South Jersey, and are in Flyer country, you should be able to subscribe to Center Ice and get the Rangers, except when they play the Flyers.