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DIRECTV Drops Price For MLB Extra Innings -- Sort Of

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Y2kTheNewOldies

http://tvpredictions.com/mlb030517.htm


Washington, D.C. (March 5, 2017) DIRECTV has just revealed the price for its 2017 Major League Baseball Extra Innings package, and it's lower than last year -- by $1.20.

The satcaster is charging $172.74 for this year's package of out-of-market MLB games, according to a DIRECTV web page just posted, compared to $173.94 for the 2016 plan.

The price reduction may not seem like much, but the real discount came last year when DIRECTV and Comcast agreed in a settlement to a lawsuit filed by fans to offer the 2016 and 2017 editions of Extra Innings for roughly 12.5 percent less than the regular rate.

MLB, and some pay TV partners, including DIRECTV and Comcast, settled the lawsuit from fans who claimed that the league's MLB.TV online package was both too pricey and too restrictive in regards to blackouts. The agreement for a lower price for the pay TV edition of Extra Innings for two years was part of the settlement.

Comcast, which offered the Extra Innings plan last year for $165, has yet to reveal its 2017 price.

As it did in 2015 and 2016, DIRECTV is including a free subscription to MLB.TV with the Extra Innings package. MLB.TV, which normally costs more than $100, allows subscribers to watch the games over the Internet on connected devices.
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OK then.
 
DirecTV's Extra Innings also includes MLB.TV and (at least, last year they did) Gameday Audio... but only during the regular season. If you want to watch or listen to Spring Training games, you have to subscribe separately. I've had EI for the past 3 seasons, and will have it again this year, but MLB now says that I have no valid subscriptions.
 
KeithE4 said:
DirecTV's Extra Innings also includes MLB.TV and (at least, last year they did) Gameday Audio... but only during the regular season. If you want to watch or listen to Spring Training games, you have to subscribe separately. I've had EI for the past 3 seasons, and will have it again this year, but MLB now says that I have no valid subscriptions.
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Interesting. I subscribe to MLB.TV and the price this year is up to $113 from, I think, $106 last year. It includes spring training and, for the first time, the World Baseball Classic, which begins tomorrow morning our time. Previously, the WBC had to be paid for separately.
 
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