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Panthers avoid Blackout

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he Panthers' game against Jacksonville on Sunday will be televised locally after Anheuser-Busch and WBTV bought the unsold tickets to ensure the game would not be blacked out.

Anheuser-Busch, corporate partner of the Panthers and the NFL, and WBTV, Charlotte's CBS affiliate that will air Sunday's game, will distribute the tickets to local charities, military members and first responders with local police, fire and EMS departments.

The Panthers had 1,200 tickets remaining as of Tuesday. Team officials did not say how many were left by Thursday's NFL deadline to avoid a blackout.

Sunday's game will be the Panthers' 87th consecutive sellout. The team has had only two blackouts since entering the league in 1995, both during the 2002 season.

The Panthers failed to sell out the '02 opener, coming off a 1-15 finish in George Seifert's last year. Their last blackout was a game against Cincinnati on Dec. 8, 2002, when an icestorm hit Charlotte.

http://blogs.charlotte.com/panthers/2011/09/panthers-avoid-blackout.html

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Serious question regarding blackouts...

I know what it means... But does anybody know what the #'s have to look like to avoid a blackout? Like, do we have to sellout the stadium to avoid blackouts? I suppose I could have googled it. But I figured somebody here already knows. Why not tap into our knowledge base...

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Serious question regarding blackouts...

I know what it means... But does anybody know what the #'s have to look like to avoid a blackout? Like, do we have to sellout the stadium to avoid blackouts? I suppose I could have googled it. But I figured somebody here already knows. Why not tap into our knowledge base...

We didn't have a complete sellout in the Q once, but they still lifted it - IDK why they didn't require those seats to be sold. It might be that way in other stadiums

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That too, instead of putting in an out of market game you get nothing. It's a punishment for not meeting their blackmail request.

I actually live in San Diego and, while Chargers games don't get blacked out often because of recent success, we get weird blackouts IE after a bad loss or this weekend against KC. Everyone expects it to be such a blowout, that the stadium didn't sell. It doesn't help that the average price of attending an NFL game is ridiculous.

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