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Posted on 11/02/2016 11:51:48 AM PDT by EveningStar
Full title: AT&T and DirecTV colluded in an illegal plot that kept Dodgers games off the air, DOJ lawsuit alleges
The anti-collusion suit alleges that DirecTV -- and its corporate parent, AT&T -- shared private negotiating information in 2014 with other TV providers, including Cox Communications and Charter Communications, in order to gain a collective advantage over Time Warner Cable, which was selling licenses to air the Dodgers Channel on other networks. By simultaneously agreeing not to carry the channel, each TV provider could breathe easier knowing their customers would not be able to switch to a provider that did carry live Dodgers games, according to the suit.
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The DOJ makes this announcement and attempts to shove all of Illary’s crimes under the rug? Pendejos...
Gee, is the entire COUNTRY crooked??
YEP
Their CEO Randall Stevens believes in Black Lives Matter. Probably doesn’t want them to attack their techs.
And now Vin Scully is gone. There is no price or money that can bring back those lost games.
“As many as 3 million homes in the Los Angeles area lack access to the Dodgers Channel, known formally as SportsNet LA.”
“In offering licenses to air Dodgers games, Time Warner Cable initially tried to charge other TV providers $4.90 a month per subscriber for the rights, according to the Los Angeles Times. Facing opposition from DirecTV and others, TWC cut the price in March to $3.50.”
This can be views as DirecTV and the other cable providers were trying to keep their customer costs down. The Dodgers channel was trying to charge per cable subscriber, not per Dodger channel viewer. Under that scenario, even people who had no interest in viewing the Dodgers would be see their monthly cable bill increase to pay for the unwanted, new Dodgers channel.
$4.90 per month X 3,000,000 subscriber = $14,700,000 per month in revenue.
If the Dodger channel were not forced on each cable subscriber, and were only limited to people who wanted to view the Dodgers, and were willing to go to the effort of signing up for the channel and paying for privilege, the revenue picture for the Dodger channel would be much bleaker.
$5 a month for just the Dodgers from April to October.
No Lakers, Clippers, Kings, Ducks or even Angels...
Many have favorite teams out-of-town. They grew up there and moved or otherwise developed such an affinity. That's why when you attend a ballgame in your hometown there is always a minority who are rooting visibly and vocally for the visitors--and trying not to get beaten-up by the hometown fanatics.
I'm just the opposite: living in LA, I became a Dodger fan at age seven in 1956, and two years later they moved here!
"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23
Can’t get the PAC-12 network on DirecTV either. Of course for the first time in 15 years the Huskie are decent and they have had only 3 out 8 games on channels that I get.
I know. I can only watch about a third of ASU games this year and it sucks. Wish I hadn’t given up my season tickets in 2009.
AT&T is engaged in an illegal agreement with my building here in Miami to deny us the right to use satellite dishes. Upon moving in to the building, we were given a lease agreement that said that we had a right, under federal law, to have a satellite dish for our own use, subject to the restrictions in the “Satellite Addendum.” However, one of the lines in the satellite addendum that they made us sign says “You may install ______ dishes.”
The building management pre-fills that line with “0” and they will not allow Dish Network or DirecTV on the premises.
And the Dodgers proceeded to black out on TV all of major-league baseball from L.A. except for the All Star Game and World Series and 9 games from San Francisco. 9 games per year on L.A. TV. That went on for a long time.
My ancient mother lives in San Diego and Time Warner blacked out the Padres games for two or three years. She just got them back last year.
SoCal baseball fans have a long experience with not getting to watch their teams on TV.
Seems like the current crop of “all” has exceeded most folks expectations with their special gift to do W-R-O-N-G.
Just when I thought no good could come from those two companies.
How I used to look forward to those too-few Candlestick telecasts! Every pitch was shown from behind home plate--no one had yet thought of a center field zoom camera--which was fine for seeing the big downward break on Sandy's curve and offered an excellent closeup of Marichal whacking Roseboro on his helmetless noggin with a bat but was limiting otherwise, although we didn't yet realize it. Infrequent servings of thin gruel seem like a feast to a starving man. Or, as my father used to say, having both lived through the Great Depression and then moved through shattered Germany as a GI at the end of WW2: "If you're hungry enough, you'll eat anything."
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