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Spectrum SportsNet LA said Wednesday that it has reached a carriage agreement that will see DirecTV, AT&T TV, U-verse TV and AT&T TV Now customers finally be able to watch Los Angeles Dodgers games. The deal ends a six-year impasse that has kept the MLB team off DirecTV screens in more than half of homes in its own…

Dodgers fans who don’t have the SportsNet LA channel will be able to watch five more games on KTLA this season under a new deal with Spectrum Networks. The move will help assuage a long-standing complaint among local fans who don’t want to pay for the service or switch out of their existing providers. The Dodgers…

UPDATED, 3:30 PM: The Justice Department said today that it has reached a settlement in the case of information swaps involving AT&T’s DirecTV and rival pay TV outlets about talks to broadcast Los Angeles Dodgers games in SoCal. Reuters reported that the deal requires the companies also to monitor some communications…

“Put me in, Coach — I’m ready to play.” Los Angeles Dodgers fans who have been grumbling for years about not being able to watch games that are exclusive to Spectrum’s (formerly Time Warner Cable) SportsNet LA cable channel can claim a little victory today: Spectrum Networks will simulcast 10 regular-season games in…

Time Warner Cable took a mighty swing, and missed, in its ninth-inning effort to win additional distribution for its SportsNet LA, which offers the Los Angeles Dodgers, prior to baseball’s opening day. The cable company offered regional providers including DirecTV and Cox a 30% price cut for this season, which it…

Most other distributors, including DirecTV and Dish Network, refuse to pay the estimated $5 per subscriber per month that TWC wants. That’s been “one of my 2015 surprises and disappointments,” Marcus told investors today at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York. That has hurt his company. TWC…

Los Angeles Dodgers fans who can’t watch games on SportsNet LA are still out of luck for now. It “doesn't look like we'll get additional distribution for the Dodgers network this season,” Time Warner Cable CEO Rob Marcus told analysts this morning in a call to discuss Q2 earnings. This has been a problem for the No. 2…

It’s opening day for Major League Baseball,  but Los Angeles Dodgers fans will find it hard to celebrate. There’s “no resolution that I’m aware of that’s imminent” to the dispute between pay TV distributors and Time Warner Cable — which owns SportsNet LA — that prevents most viewers from watching the bulk of the…

The Dish Network chairman offered updates about his planned streaming service, and poked Comcast and Time Warner Cable — including its struggle to distribute  Los Angeles Dodgers games on SportsNet LA — in his quarterly earnings call. Dish is “running into a few snags” with the technology for its still-unnamed…

UPDATE, 6:44 AM: Time Warner Cable still wants other distributors to pick up its SportsNet LA, which carries Dodgers baseball. But their refusal to do so had at least one benefit for TWC which, of course, does have the channel. LA “had the best year-over-year (subscription) performance in Q3” compared to other TWC…

That may be the only way to break the impasse between Time Warner Cable‘s SportsNet LA, which controls the team’s TV rights, and pay TV distributors, DirecTV CEO Michael White said today. His comment followed a conference call this morning where TWC CFO Arthur Minson urged analysts to “assume we do not sign additional…

On the bright side: Time Warner Cable saw strong growth in broadband subs. But Q2 won’t go down as a quarter to remember for the No. 2 cable company, in the process of being acquired by Comcast. It reported net income of $499M, +3.7% vs last year, on revenues of $5.73B, +3.2%. The revenue number came close to the…