Charter to Offer Dodgers to Other Pay-TV Providers

December 9, 2015, 5:00 AM UTC

Charter Communications Inc. said it would offer Dodgers baseball games, currently blacked out to many Los Angeles viewers, to competing pay-TV providers if its proposed $55.1 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable Inc. goes through.

Dodgers games have been unavailable to most of the Los Angeles market’s 4.1 million pay-TV customers since Time Warner Cable gained distribution rights before the 2014 season to SportsNet LA, the regional channel that features the team’s games.

Competitors such as Dish Network Corp., AT&T Inc.'s DirecTV, Verizon Communications Inc. and Cox Enterprises, Inc.'s Cox Communications haven’t carried the channel since Time Warner Cable won ...

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