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Vin Scully will return for a 66th season

K.M. Richards said:
But I appreciate your comments, even if you do sound just like me at times.
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Ha! You were talking about Vin Scully withdrawal, and I offered a solution. Not a way to watch entire games, including those not done by Vin.

My view is if you want something bad enough, there's always a way to get it. Another way is to subscribe to MLB.com, and you can bypass TW completely.
 
TheBigA said:
Ha! You were talking about Vin Scully withdrawal, and I offered a solution. Not a way to watch entire games, including those not done by Vin.

My view is if you want something bad enough, there's always a way to get it. Another way is to subscribe to MLB.com, and you can bypass TW completely.
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Uh...no. Local blackout restrictions apply to both MLB.com and MLB Extra Innings.
 
ChannelFlipper said:
Uh...no. Local blackout restrictions apply to both MLB.com and MLB Extra Innings.
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But not to KLAC. Once again, Vin is there, and so are the games. Exclusively for 70% of Angelinos. KLAC should be getting a 5 share. In other markets, the AM station with the exclusive gets a 5 share. That's what the Giants get on an AM station in San Francisco. Maybe Giants fans have no principles. They just have the championship.
 
K.M. Richards said:
2. Vin still only does three innings on radio. If I'm going to listen to a game, I want all nine called by Vin and won't get that on radio.
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I listen to Jaime Jarrín. He calls the whole game, not just three innings.
 
ChannelFlipper said:
Uh...no. Local blackout restrictions apply to both MLB.com and MLB Extra Innings.
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TV has local blackouts, but not Gameday Audio. It's $20, airs all broadcasts in English and Spanish (if available) for all teams, and there are no local blackouts whatsoever. It's included for free with MLB.TV but not Extra Innings.

Doesn't help with Vin Withdrawal, however, if he's only doing 3 innings on radio. :D
 
DavidEduardo said:


I listen to Jaime Jarrín. He calls the whole game, not just three innings.
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Given that Jaime is probably the Spanish-language equivalent of Vin in terms of iconicness and that I know Spanish is your first language, David, that statement doesn't surprise me at all.
 
LARadioRewind said:
Well, it appears that a large number of "shut-out" Los Angeles television viewers will soon be able to see the Dodgers again.
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Didn't see anything in that article that said Charter would resolve the Dodgers matter quickly ... if at all. They may end up saddled with the same required payments to the Dodgers, and things would not change. In fact, who knows how long the deal will take to get regulatory approval?
 
Charter is another major cable company in LA - theoretically if they buy TWC and therefore TWC SportsNet LA, they will add the channel to their cable packages to minimize their loss on the Dodgers deal. People with DirecTV or Dish or other cable companies will probably still be SOL.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Didn't see anything in that article that said Charter would resolve the Dodgers matter quickly ... if at all. They may end up saddled with the same required payments to the Dodgers, and things would not change. In fact, who knows how long the deal will take to get regulatory approval?
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Even with fast-track regulatory approval, which is certainly not assured, it would take 4-6 months minimum to complete the deal. That puts the earliest possible closing date around the beginning of October, too late to solve the problem in the current season. If the Dodgers make the playoffs, all the games would be on network or cable outlets that are widely distributed.
 
ChannelFlipper said:
Even with fast-track regulatory approval, which is certainly not assured, it would take 4-6 months minimum to complete the deal. That puts the earliest possible closing date around the beginning of October, too late to solve the problem in the current season. If the Dodgers make the playoffs, all the games would be on network or cable outlets that are widely distributed.
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Actually, the LA Times reports today that Charter customers should have SportsNet LA "within a few weeks".
 
Now what about those of us who have AT&T, Cox, Dish or DirecTV? If the Dodgers can ever again make it to the World Series, which they haven't done since 1988, we'd love to be able to see the games on television.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
Actually, the LA Times reports today that Charter customers should have SportsNet LA "within a few weeks".
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I have seen a similar story. Charter has made it clear that this is a friendly offer, as opposed to a previous effort which was not so friendly, so it makes sense for Charter to add it on its own even before the deal is consummated (1) as a show of goodwill that they have what it takes to partner with TWC and see the deal through (as if the $2 billion breakup fee were not incentive enough) and (2) to stem the loss of subscribers over a channel they intend to own anyway, so yeah, needing to wait for the formal approval is not in Charter's interest, thus the speed with which they will want to add the channel.
 
For the past 16 months, only 30% of the people who live in the Los Angeles area have been able to see Dodgers baseball on television. Those are the ones who subscribe to Time Warner Cable, the company which made an $8.35 billion deal with the Dodgers to carry an exclusive channel, SportsNet LA, and then could not get any of the other tv providers to pay a fee of $4.90 for every subscriber. Dish, DirecTV, Cox, Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-Verse wanted to offer the channel on a subscription basis instead of charging every subscriber for a channel that not everyone would watch. TWC said no---and has been losing millions of dollars every month.

Charter Communications, which is hoping to win federal approval to acquire Time Warner Cable for $57 billion, will begin carrying SportsNet LA on June 9 on Channel 44 and HD Channel 789. (Fees were not disclosed.) This means that 36% of local residents will be able to see Dodgers games on tv. Wooo!
 
LARadioRewind said:
For the past 16 months, only 30% of the people who live in the Los Angeles area have been able to see Dodgers baseball on television. Those are the ones who subscribe to Time Warner Cable, the company which made an $8.35 billion deal with the Dodgers to carry an exclusive channel, SportsNet LA, and then could not get any of the other tv providers to pay a fee of $4.90 for every subscriber. Dish, DirecTV, Cox, Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-Verse wanted to offer the channel on a subscription basis instead of charging every subscriber for a channel that not everyone would watch. TWC said no---and has been losing millions of dollars every month.

Charter Communications, which is hoping to win federal approval to acquire Time Warner Cable for $57 billion, will begin carrying SportsNet LA on June 9 on Channel 44 and HD Channel 789. (Fees were not disclosed.) This means that 36% of local residents will be able to see Dodgers games on tv. Wooo!
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This is still a travesty, especially for the other 64%.
 
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