The Los Angeles Dodgers’ record sale price of $2.15 billion...
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ record sale price of $2.15 billion this week means cable and DBS customers will likely pay more to see their baseball games on pay TV, the American Cable Association said. Nationally “the fundamental problem is that…
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programmers refuse to give pay-TV operators the flexibility to provide customers with absolutely zero interest in sports -- who are, after all, the majority of viewers -- the right to bypass expensive sports channels that are driving up their pay-TV bills,” ACA President Matt Polka said Thursday (http://xrl.us/bmztak). Should News Corp. start a national U.S. sports channel, that would increase programmer competition to buy rights to games, which “will drive up the costs of these rights” and so pay-TV bills, Polka said.