Today, Spectrum SportsNet announced that it will be launching its first direct-to-consumer streaming service called SportsNet+. This service will stream all in-market Lakers games for fans in California, Hawaii and southern Nevada. Spectrum SportsNet+ will cost $19.99 per month or $179.99 per season. Current Spectrum, DirecTV and Cox pay TV customers who have access to Spectrum SportsNet programming will be able to watch via the Spectrum SportsNet app at no additional cost, and with authenticated access to Spectrum SportsNet+.
DirecTV will launch Time Warner Cable SportsNet and Time Warner Cable Deportes today for all Southern California customers.
Lakers fans are finally getting some good news. Satellite broadcaster DirecTV has struck a deal to carry SportsNet, the Time Warner Cable-owned network that is the new TV home for the Lakers, sources close to the talks say.
Cox Strikes Deal With TWC For Lakers Ch.
Cox Cable has reached an agreement to carry Time Warner Cable’s sports channel SportsNet, which is the new local television home for the Los Angeles Lakers. The agreement ends a standoff between the two companies that had been going on for weeks.
Exclusives
The first regular season Los Angeles Lakers game scheduled to air on Time Warner Cable’s new SportsNet channel is just a week away and the cable company still does not have any distribution deals with other pay TV providers in the region.
Time Warner Cable is asking as much as $3.95 per subscriber per month from competitors in the L.A. area, said a person familiar with the situation. The person requested anonymity because the negotiations are confidential and the details were not yet final. That would make it the second most expensive regional sports network in the nation behind Comcast SportsNet Washington, which charges $4.02 per subscriber per month, according to research firm SNL Kagan.
