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If your station is a flagship for a professional sports team, you'll likely learn about geographical rights restrictions soon (if you haven't already).
Your station's contract with the team, though allowing for local over-the-air broadcasts, may restrict listeners from your stream, depending upon where they are located.
"Geo-fencing" is the function of defining virtual borders upon which location decisions are based. A geo-fence could, for example, be a set of cities that allow ("geo-targeting") or prohibit ("geo-blocking") access to content. A simple way to define who is inside the allowed area would be by outlining the area on a map, using longitude and latitude lines as borders. Geo-fencing could also be specific to the user themselves, such as when the user is at home or at work
"Geo-blocking" is the function of prohibiting access to content based on user location. This is critical for territory and rights management.
A sports broadcaster may have the rights to stream a game only within the same metro area as the OTA broadcast; conversely, geo-blocking can be used to...