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The Los Angeles Dodgers have won three of their last four games and are on a roll. But you have to be there. No, really, you have to be there. Two months into the 2014 season, 70 percent of televisions in Southern California can't tune into games. That's because the new team channel, SportsNet LA, is still carried only by Time Warner Cable , which launched the channel after it paid the team a reported cheap hotels in hawaii $8.35 billion for rights to Dodgers games for the next quarter century.
No other carrier has come to terms with TWC to carry the channel—not Comcast (CNBC's parent company, which is now seeking to buy Time Warner Cable), nor Cox Communications, Charter Communications , DISH Network , DirecTV , AT T or Verizon Communcations .
"Thanx TWC for having everyone else miss out on the no hitter it's not like it happens every day a-------," tweeted @losdoyers. "There it is! The least-watched no-hitter in the modern era!" added @conwayshow.
The Dodgers currently have the highest attendance in baseball, averaging more than 46,000 fans per game, but TV ratings are down. More fans go to the games than watch them on TV. ESPN reports that "an average cheap hotels in hawaii of just 43,000 households are watching their games on TWC, according cheap hotels in hawaii to Nielsen ratings, a drop of nearly 72 percent from last season, when games were carried by a Fox-owned cheap hotels in hawaii station."
"We are eager for all consumers in the Dodger footprint to have access to SportsNet LA and we hope that providers will come on board soon," Time Warner Cable said in a statement to CNBC. "We will continue to work tirelessly to make that happen."
CNBC s Jane Wells speaks with Los Angeles Dodgers President CEO Stan Kasten about the team s cable deal with Time Warner Cable and the Dodgers chances cheap hotels in hawaii of winning the World Series with the largest payroll in baseball.
"Historically, these deals get done much closer to opening day, sometimes a little before, sometimes a little after," he said, "but the history, the overwhelming history, in city after city after city, is that these deals get done, because everyone has the same interest."
Clearly those interests are not yet aligned, and it appears the greatest gulf is between cheap hotels in hawaii TWC and DirecTV. cheap hotels in hawaii The satellite TV operator recently raised its regional sports fee to local customers, even though it is not yet carrying the Dodgers channel.
The cable company's chief video and content officer recently told the Los Angeles cheap hotels in hawaii Times that the terms TWC is offering are less than what Time Warner Cable pays for the YES Network , a Fox-owned property that carries the Yankees in New York.
Donald Sterling cheap hotels in hawaii claims he's received offers "in excess cheap hotels in hawaii of $2.5 billion" for the team, which would be more than the $2.15 billion the Dodgers sold for. One reason current Dodgers owners the Guggenheim Group paid so much for the team was to make money on a television channel, and now the LA Times reports that Guggenheim may also bid for the Clippers .
That raises a question about how much sports television Los Angeles can support: If launching a channel for a legendary team like the Dodgers is so difficult, and there's already a specific channel for the Lakers, cheap hotels in hawaii would carriers balk at a third channel for the Clippers?
"Everybody wants high-quality entertainment, high-quality product," Kasten said in March when discussing the new Dodgers channel. "At the end of the day, there's cheap hotels in hawaii almost always a way to get this done."
Dodgers fans just hope the end of the day is before the end of the season. cheap hotels in hawaii "If a guy throws a #nohitter and 70% of his teams' cheap hotels in hawaii fans weren't cheap hotels in hawaii able to watch it on TV, did it really happen?" tweeted @OrangePuck.
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