Reuters: Sports News: Time Warner Cable to carry new LA Dodgers baseball channel

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Time Warner Cable to carry new LA Dodgers baseball channel Jan 28th 2013, 15:25 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Baseball Hall of Famer and Cardinals legend Stan Musial dead at 92 Sun, Jan 20 2013 Oprah's task: Turn Armstrong audience into regular OWN viewers Thu, Jan 17 2013 Al Jazeera inherits Current TV's distribution woes Fri, Jan 4 2013 Al Jazeera buys Gore's Current TV, terms undisclosed Thu, Jan 3 2013 Tribune, out of Chapter 11, set to begin makeover as TV company Mon, Dec 31 2012 Analysis & Opinion When news sells at a premium The Time Warner Cable office is shown in Carlsbad, California November 5, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Mike Blake Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:55am EST (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc said on Monday it will carry the new Los Angeles Dodgers channel, outbidding Fox Sports, which held the rights to show Dodgers games for more than a decade. The Dodgers ownership group will control the channel, becoming the most recent sports franchise to own all or part of its own channel, ensuring ongoing TV profits in addition to the lucrative revenue from cable operators. The channel is scheduled to begin airing Dodgers games at the start of the 2014 baseball season. The channel will be available in southern California and Hawaii. Time Warner Cable will be the main distributor of the channel in a "long-term affiliation deal," and will control advertising sales and affiliate agreements, according to a statement. The Dodgers and Time Warner Cable said the agreement is subject to certain closing conditions. The Dodgers were acquired for $2.15 billion in March 2012 by a group headed by private investment firm Guggenheim Partners that included former basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Hollywood producer Peter Guber and Stan Kasten, a long-time baseball and basketball executive. (Reporting by Liana B. Baker; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe) Related Quotes and News Company Price Related News Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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