NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court hearing in the long-running television dispute between the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals has been rescheduled for March 31. The Appellate Division of […]
Sling TV, the live streaming service owned by Dish, said today that it will add four NBC-CSN regional sports channels on April 2, in time for the 2017 Major League Baseball season. The channels are CSN California, CSN Bay Area, CSN Chicago and CSN Mid-Atlantic
Walter Cade is tasked with managing revenue across the NBC regional sports networks as well as working with the NBC and Telemundo stations on multi-market and individual cross-platform sales.
Dodgers’ TV Blackout Enters Fourth Season
For the fourth consecutive year, the Dodgers’ television broadcasts could go unseen by a majority of fans in the Los Angeles area. Charter Communications said Monday it does not anticipate reaching agreements with DirecTV or any other cable or satellite provider to carry the Dodgers-owned SportsNet LA channel by the time the regular season starts April 3.
Exclusives
Ravens Lose Comcast SportsNet As TV Partner
MoffettNathanson recently held its Sports Summit featuring league officials, network executives, ad buyers, programmers and sports experts. While the consensus from the forum was that sports viewership and advertising isn’t under any near-term threat, affiliate fees could be in trouble.
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday took the extraordinary step of suing AT&T, alleging that its DirecTV unit orchestrated an illegal campaign to block wide carriage of SportsNet LA, the regional sports channel owned by the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The former president of NBC Sports Group will report to Jeff Krolik, president of Fox Sports Regional Networks.
Comcast Sportsnet Promo Scores Promax Gold
Time Warner Cable conceded Thursday that it has failed in its efforts to win broad distribution for SportsNet LA, the TV channel owned by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Time Warner Cable made several pitches this month to other pay-TV providers — including AT&T’s DirecTV and Cox Communications — hoping to entice them to sign up for the Dodgers channel in time for the baseball season, which begins Monday.
With the Yankees in spring training and its carriage impasse with Comcast into its fourth month, regional sports channel YES Network has initiated a multi-million advertising campaign urging the MSO’s subscribers to change pay TV services.
Major League Baseball and the pay television industry generally limit fans to watching their local teams on regional sports networks. Viewers who live outside the home territory of their favorite clubs — about half of all fans, by one count — have to sign up for unwieldy Internet and satellite TV subscription services. Now, the league will have to defend that logic in a trial starting today in federal court, in which Comcast Corp. and DirecTV are also among the defendants. The plaintiffs argue that MLB is illegally restraining competition by limiting the markets in which its 30 teams can make broadcast deals.
Major League Baseball, which has previously taken a miserly approach to extending TV Everywhere rights to regional sports networks, is softening its stance just a bit on authenticated streaming.
Talks to hammer out a new carriage agreement between the cable giant and the Fox Sports-owned regional sports network broke down, leading Comcast to pull the plug on the channel that airs the games of the New York Yankees, Brooklyn Nets and the NYC Football Club.
Cubs Hoping To Launch Cable Network In 2020
A New York state judge has thrown out an arbitration decision that said the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, which is controlled by the Baltimore Orioles, owes the Washington Nationals about $298 million for the team’s 2012-16 television rights.
Charter To Offer Dodgers Network To Subs
Charter Communications intends to make SportsNet LA, the regional sports network that offers Los Angeles Dodgers baseball games, to its subscribers in a few weeks’ time, potentially ending a year-long showdown that has left nearly 70% of Los Angeles-vicinity TV subscribers without access to the team.
Mets Close Gap With Yankees In TV Viewership
Time Warner Cable is expected to shoulder the burden of its bad deal to acquire TV rights to Los Angeles Dodgers games by writing down the value of the asset by up to $1 billion, sources say. Time Warner Cable and Dodgers fans are facing a second season of silence from West Coast TV distributors who, so far, are balking at the price for carrying Time Warner Cable’s SportsNet LA, which carries the Dodgers games exclusively.
