I imagine if MLB lifted their blackout restrictions, it would void or breach a lot of TV deals around the country. I'm sure the TWC deal came with a book of provisions, and having exclusive broadcast rights in the area has to be one of them.
Yeah, I think maybe it'll only be for ESPN/FOX games where you are forced to watch certain games. That makes more sense
Speaking of weird TWC stuff: Back home, I'm pretty far from Los Angeles (4 hours away) and I'm pretty much in the San Diego market (I get the FOX Sports San Diego channel). On my TV I don't get SportsnetLA, and when I check online if the channel is available in my area it says no, but when I use the TWC App on my Roku or iPad, I get SportsNetLA. I have no idea why.
There must be something going on with your IP address. I've used unblock-us.com all season ($5/mo) to screw with my location.
dodgydodgers.com pirate streams of time warner dodger games easy way to make a quick buck before it gets shut down wait that is illegal what am i thinking instead a superstation like TBS that shows teh dodgers WORLDWIDE someone pitch that idea to the dodgers owners for them to make more money elsewhere TWS is a regional channel priced to compete with the big national channels so why not keep TWS as the parent programming network but have the actual channel be named something else and piped out nationally like TBS? dont make it a sports site, follow the superstation format just not call it that the dodgers are a big national and international brand time warner owns their own systems in terms of networks, hardware, hosting, etc... but they lack entertainment other than sports their competitors like direct tv are doing great with different types of entertainment time warner should think of starting the first real network that caters to the internet user which is the user they are most losing. The @ network. Their logo is already a swirly round thing, might as well make it a stylized @ with the cable controller having a big @ button that functions like the start key on a windows machine. the company could make an interactive network that competes with the smart tvs, the apple/google stuff that is the modern version of the old webtv and many other of the things taking users away from old cable style programming take good internet based shows add in some production values and put it on the air koreans pay more to watch pimply faced teens play starcraft on cable than they do hbo there are tons of gold to mine on the internet, networks already been doing it here and there for a few years and the Dodgers and possibly the Lakers would be the anchors for the station with both teams allowing for a deeper amount of interactivity like being able to choose the park/arena sound only when we want to feel like we are at the game or when they do those sideline interviews during the game interrupting the action you could press a button to go to the alternate feed where you dont have to hear the banter and instead the game continues, things like that built in tools to record snippets of content from the channel to mock up or otherwise edit on your tv the way irish edits a picture to make a funny or a meme. be able to then email it or post it online anywhere all done in a couple minutes during the commercial break of the content you were watching time warner has deals with sprint for using the phones during games, an alternate feed could exist with a pop up shoutbox on a slight delay of course for moderation run all kinds of gimmicks like the ability to text don mattingly during the game to give him advice
I have a stream that's great quality, but when it goes down, I just use hola blocker and my friends mlb.tv subscription to watch games. Works we'll and I don't have to pay for anything.
I have MLB.TV and I get all the games with no blackouts lol I mean I have TWC anyways, but yeah it still works for me, lol
Haha Irish you know me man, I don't work for TWC nor do I even like them but I directv blame where it is due. You guys want to complain to someone take it off the 105 in El Segundo blatant collusion in the works here. Directv thought their customers wouldn't care and cancel and very few of us did. So what incentive do they have to pick it up? None... I'm in a charter area which also doesn't carry the channel. The moron who calls me weekly to get me to get the tv service had never heard of the channel so there's that.