One of the big problems right now is that the Dodgers sold an exclusive TV deal to Time Warner Cable. TWC wants $4 per subscriber per month from non-TWC vendors to take the single channel. This is why only 30% of the Los Angeles market has seen a Dodgers game when it isn't also on TBS this year (except for the last week of the regular season): DirecTv, AT&T, Charter, Cox, and Dish Network all balked. If you want Vin and don't get cable in Los Angeles County, you have to tune into AM 570 (KLAC), which still has the radio rights. However he only covers the first three innings over the radio.
That's messed up. You clever bastard.One of the big problems right now is that the Dodgers sold an exclusive TV deal to Time Warner Cable. TWC wants $4 per subscriber per month from non-TWC vendors to take the single channel. This is why only 30% of the Los Angeles market has seen a Dodgers game when it isn't also on TBS this year (except for the last week of the regular season): DirecTv, AT&T, Charter, Cox, and Dish Network all balked.
balked.
I don't blame the Dodgers for that. They got a gorgeous offer, so they took it. TWC, in contrast, made a foolish game from it. Now they want Comcast to buy them out. Could it have been that expensive? Yeah, possibly. Could they wind up with serious problems if the nation's scariest buyout doesn't happen (and I really don't want it to happen)? Yup. However they still provide the "fastest" internet in the second largest city in America, so they shouldn't be bankrupt.