Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
March 08, 2007
Cable Response

It looks like In Demand isn't going for the Extra Innings deal:

Jacobson said the deal contained "conditions for carriage that MLB and DirecTV designed to be impossible for cable and DISH to meet." He said the agreement will "disenfranchise baseball fans in the 75 million multichannel households who do not subscribe to DirecTV" and "represents the height of disrespect and disregard for their loyal baseball fans."

So both sides are trying to make the other look like the bad guy here.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:28 PM | Broadcasts | TrackBack (0)
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Hmm...he would have more credibility if he actually said what those "impossible conditions" were.

Posted by: dave at March 8, 2007 08:58 PM

Selig knows there's no way Dish Network could fork over $100 million for 50,000 subscribers. Maybe In Demand could, but even that would probably be pushing it.

Posted by: Tony at March 8, 2007 09:12 PM

What what I understand, the real sticking point is "The Baseball Channel." The cable operators are refusing to carry it in their normal digital line up, and want to place it in their digital sports package (i.e. you have to pay more to get it)

Posted by: Steven Andrew Miller at March 10, 2007 02:59 PM
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