Final 6 Games to be Televised Over-the-Air

Bill Shaikin @BillShaikin · 3h
#Dodgers and Time Warner Cable agree to show final week of regular season games on KDOC (Channel 56) - free, over the air. Hallelujah.

Time Warner to show final six Dodgers' games free on KDOC http://lat.ms/1r00VPO...

Dodgers' final games will be televised
Associated Press
Updated: September 15, 2014, 2:05 PM ET

LOS ANGELES -- The last six regular-season Los Angeles Dodgers games will be televised on an independent station that will allow all local fans of the team to watch after they have been shut out for most of the year.

Time Warner Cable said Monday that it has reached a deal with KDOC, which is carried by every cable, satellite and telco provider in Southern California and can be received over the air with an antenna.

The Dodgers lead the National League West by three games over San Francisco. They will host the Giants from Sept. 23-24 and the Rockies from Sept. 26-28, with those six games being shown on KDOC.

Time Warner Cable chief operating officer Dinni Jain says the company will continue to work on long-term agreements with other providers during the offseason to carry SportsNet LA, which televises Dodgers games.

Only customers of Time Warner Cable, its partner Bright House Networks, and a small operator called Champion Broadband have been able to watch the Dodgers this season. That leaves out subscribers of major providers such as DirecTV, Dish Network, Verizon and AT&T.

The contract to broadcast Dodgers games, which had long been with Fox Sports' Prime Ticket regional sports network, was bought by Time Warner Cable last year in a deal estimated to be worth $7 billion over the next two decades.

Copyright 2014 by The Associated Press​

 

Sweet, hopefully Kershaw pitches in one of those games.

 

Fuck TWC.

 

Who has really disallowed you to watch the dodgers this year? The team that gave the team 8BILLION dollars or the carriers that refused to carry it for unknown reasons?

I don't blame TWC one bit in ANY of this, the blame rests solely on the shoulders of the carriers. I also want to blame dodger fans who have those carriers that refused to pick up the channel and didn't raise hell and cancel.

What did TWC do but give the Dodgers a fuckton of money and give them a platform to make more?

Directv is to blame here if they bought on the others would've followed and I personally canceled my directv after missing 20 games. If you have a service that didn't pick up the channel and you didn't cancel, you are to blame not TWC.

You all enabled directv and all the other carriers to take such a hard nosed stance.

Blame TWC? For what? Making the dodgers the richest team in the history of world sport?

Yeah they're real bastards.

 

Yeah I mean it really just depends on the asking price of TWC IMO. They paid a shit ton of money to carry the Dodgers games, so it makes sense that they'd charge alternative carriers a lot for the channel, however at some point TWC needs to realize they overshot the market. If it was an affordable price, you can bet your ass Direct TV and other carriers would've picked it up so they wouldn't lose customers. The fact that this is still going on though seems to tell me that the Dodgers aren't as huge of a demand by LA as everyone thought. Irish is right, people shouldn't have to be inconvenienced to switch carriers because TWC made a bad business move. Let me say that I'm not claiming to be a business major, just using common sense here lol.

 

TWC is notorious for horrible customer service. Unfortunately we don't know how much TWC wants to charge other providers but the Laker games are on. Cannot see why we shouldn't be watching the Dodgers as well. Well whatever happens in the future I'll take what I can get.

 

shiiiiit howdy ole Rub... of course we want our money for nothing and our chicks for free...

this IS 'Merika isn't it?

 

I don't want to get into speculation about details of which will never be revealed but...

If MLB has a broadcast package which lets the entire league have their games be available for broadcast and then any random cable provider makes a deal with MLB then they get to carry which ever game they want to show their regional customers.
That apple carts rolls...
Until the Yankees and Braves stumble upon stupid money, purchase their own broadcast rights and decide the Yankee and Braves games shall be shown country wide. For free to anyone with ANY cable package that includes TBS..which ALL cable providers carry since Ted makes it cheap to do so...

And then the GG vulture bankers decide "Hey, I know" let's buy the Dodgers for a crazy amount of $$$ and then, wait for it... and then lets get the cable providers to actually pay 1000% of our costs to purchase the team.
LA Fan: Why would they do that?
GG Vulture Bankers: Because we'll sink temporary coin into the team by helping our wastrel bean town brothers out of their stupidly bad contracts and then the cable guys will pay them off too!
LA Fan: Cool but how are you gonna do that?
GG Vulture Bankers: We'll just make our own channel and 'license it' to them for 500% of what they pay for all other MLB teams combined!
LA Fan: Why would anyone pay 500% more just to see the Dodgers? ... hey let go of my short hairs!!
GG Vulture Bankers: Look... over there! Blame the rich cable guys... hey we're your friendly vulture bankers... see we brought you Becket and you got a No Hitter from him... you should be more thankful
LA Fan: what no hitter? I didn't see anything...
GG Vulture Bankers: Really you missed it? Well we saw it and it was almost as good of a gem as Kershaw's No Hitter, did you see that one ?
LA Fan: No you greedy @#&%@#&$ bunch of @#$(&#$@ I did NOT see that one either.
GG Vulture Bankers: Too bad. They were good games... Tell you what... since the season is nearly over now and those big bad rich bully's over at TWC won't pay us back 1000% profit on the money we spent, why don't we arrange for the last 6 games to be on some obscure channel for free. That will make it ALL better now won't it?
LA Fan: @#*&%@#&$#!@ Never would have thought uber greedy vulture bankers are a step down from that parsimonious prick McCrook... I'll just have to wait for highlights on Eastern Sports Programming Network... sigh...

 

It seems to me like TWC may have overpaid for the Dodgers rights. They get no kudos or pat on the back for that. What they paid is completely irrelevant to what they can charge other providers. Directtv could give two shits what TWC paid for it, the same as you could give two shits what your grocery store paid for the milk you want to buy, all you care about is what they want to charge you.

If TWC doesn't want to sell to Drecttv, I don't care. What I care about is that 70% of the L.A. market has no access to Dodgers games. None. If I could switch to TWC, I would. All TV providers are fucks, so I don't care which fuck gets my money as long as I get the programming I want. It seems like TWC could at least work out a contingent deal with Cox and Charter while they negotiate with the satellite companies. Cox and Charter don't compete directly with TWC, so even a small deal that they could pull at anytime would be free extra money, create better ratings for advertisers on SportsNetLA, and put even more pressure on Directtv and Dish. It doesn't help that TWC created a ton of bad will while selling the Lakers station. It's a bunch of fuckheads in a pissing match at this point.

So yeah, fuck TWC. It's easy to think otherwise when you are part of the 30%. I'm part of the 70%. Fuck them. And fuck the Dodgers for going the easy money route and giving up their TV rights. Fuck Cox. Fuck Charter. Fuck Dish. Fuck DirectTV. Fuck Fios. Fuck AT&T. Fuck KDOC. And most of all, FUCK TWC.

 

For whatever reason I've been able to watch every dodger game all year with MLB.TV, no blackouts or anything

 

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from Dodger baseball to Fuck You's to all greedy media bastards... to slaves and dying slowly without fresh meat...


gotta love DSP...