MLB Extra Innings

[RedSoxRooter]

I'm confused. I got a letter in the mail just yesterday saying Comcast would be unable to carry Baseball this year. They gave me a coupon for a free MLB.tv year's worth of coverage if I switched to Comcast DSL. I'm so tired of this.

[RedSoxRooter]

HOLY s*** IT'S ALREADY ON. I'M GETTING IT ALREADY ON TV ON CABLE I LOVE BASEBALL!!

[example1]

WOOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!! I saw this post at the EXACT moment that Youkilis hit his bomb! Thank God. Thank you lord.

[example1]

It's not on here yet.

[mosox]

Here it is from Cable 360.net:

 

By Shirley Brady

At 8:30pm ET In Demand Networks and Major League Baseball announced that an agreement for continued carriage of the MLB Extra Innings subscription package on cable. The seven-year deal includes distribution of the MLB's Baseball Channel, which the league announced tonight will launch in Jan. 2009. Terms of the agreement were not announced.

 

Robert Jacobson, president and CEO of In Demand Networks, a consortium owned by cable operators Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable—said in a statement this evening: "We couldn’t be happier that we have reached an agreement with Major League Baseball and are able to make these games available to baseball fans as we have for the past five years."

 

Comcast, Cox and Time Warner Cable now offer the Extra Innings out-of-market games package for this season. In Demand will immediately able to offer the package to its other cable operator affiliates, which includes Cablevision, Charter Communications, Mediacom Communications and Insight Communications. In order to offer Extra Innings, other cable operators must also agree to launch the Baseball Channel.

 

In order for cable's deal to be done MLB announced this week that DirecTV had to approve. In order for cable to agree to a deal, In Demand had been seeking an ownership stake in the startup network comparable to the 20% stake that MLB had granted DirecTV as part of its reported $700 million, seven-year Extra Innings contract.

 

According to a statement this evening from DirecTV presidnent and CEO Chase Carey, the satellite TV provider maintains "a leadership equity position" in the channel that exceeds cable's cut of the channel.

 

"We are extremely pleased with our revised agreement," said Carey. "It recognizes DirecTV's role in this process by providing us unique financial benefits in Extra Innings, a leadership equity position in the MLB Channel, an ability to develop expanded features available only to DirecTV customers as well as exclusivity of MLB Extra Innings against satellite and other key cable competitors.”

 

MLB's channel will launch in 40 million homes, which MLB president and COO Bob DuPuy said accomplished the league's goal in expanding talks with cable this week and dropping the earlier deadline.

 

"Our chief goal throughout the process was to ensure that fans would have access to as many baseball games and as much baseball coverage as possible," said DuPuy.

 

"With this agreement, the MLB Channel will launch with an unprecedented platform," he added. "We are pleased with the launch of the MLB Channel to so many homes coupled with our agreement to extend the distribution of MLB Extra Innings with In Demand."

 

As Jacobson told Cable360, the Extra Innings negotiations were "unique ... in that for the first time a league expressly tied carriage of a yet-to-be-launched channel to continued carriage of a package."

 

DirecTV's deal for Extra Innings and ownership in the channel—a proposed exclusive that was challenged in a congressional hearing chaired by Sen. John Kerry—involved "equity that’s potentially going to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars," Jacobson added.

 

Not mentioned in the announcement: EchoStar, the other incumbent distributor of Extra Innings, whose president and vice chairman Carl Vogel testified at the House Commerce committee inquiry last month.

[RedSoxRooter]

It's on bro. Try your Hockey channels. For me it's 460-469 on cable.

[example1]

It's on bro. Try your Hockey channels. For me it's 460-469 on cable.

 

 

No, it's not on here. I believe you that its on where you live, just not here. That's okay, I bet it will all be on tomorrow, and I'm already watching on the computer. The fact that you're watching is all the reassurance I need that life will be good this spring and summer. :thumbsup:

 

Enjoy it my man, I'll start tomorrow!

 

yeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeah!!! I'm pumped.

[RedSoxRooter]

 

Enjoy it my man, I'll start tomorrow!

 

yeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeah!!! I'm pumped.

 

Good luck X. I know I can't be the only one!

[Mr Crunchy]

its the smart move

why piss off 200m people who get cable for the small amount who dont

[example1]

I don't know, but I feel "bad" for the guy who was bragging about "I just got my Direct TV set up" the other day. Too bad you changed providers for nothing bro!

[example1]

Isn't it amazing how you can feel like this team is scarry-bad one night, and then unbeatable the next. That's 162 games of baseball for ya!

[a700hitter]

I have MLB on Direct TV. Direct TV has the sportspack too which allows you to get the NESN pre and post-game shows. Does cable have that option?

[a700hitter]

Isn't it amazing how you can feel like this team is scarry-bad one night' date=' and then unbeatable the next. That's 162 games of baseball for ya![/quote']It's always a rollcoaster ride.

[Taliesin]

I will say one thing about DTV...their end game music is much better than the tweedly pseudo Jazz we're normally subjected to. Right now they are playing an obscure Doors song. What I wouldn't give for one tiny blotter of acid.

[example1]

I have MLB on Direct TV. Direct TV has the sportspack too which allows you to get the NESN pre and post-game shows. Does cable have that option?

 

No, definitely not. I take what I can get my man!

 

I would kill to have NESN, if only to watch endless Sox replays and useless interviews with guys like the curly-haired bastard and Tina Cervasio.

 

Basically they give you the game until the moment the 3rd out is made, and then it shuts off or switches to another game. Still, its good news for sure. I was feeling pressured to move sooner than later just to get the dish. That would have required me to get another job and the list goes on and on. That god that's over!

[example1]

I will say one thing about DTV...their end game music is much better than the tweedly pseudo Jazz we're normally subjected to. Right now they are playing an obscure Doors song. What I wouldn't give for one tiny blotter of acid.

 

Good post taliesin You're right. THat music sticks in the depths of my brain for a long time.

[a700hitter]

No, definitely not. I take what I can get my man!

 

I would kill to have NESN, if only to watch endless Sox replays and useless interviews with guys like the curly-haired bastard and Tina Cervasio.

 

Basically they give you the game until the moment the 3rd out is made, and then it shuts off or switches to another game. Still, its good news for sure. I was feeling pressured to move sooner than later just to get the dish. That would have required me to get another job and the list goes on and on. That god that's over!

NESN has been pulling some underhanded s*** last year and this year. In the middle of last year, they were balcking out the pre- and post-game shows. Then the signed a contract with DirectV and it was back. Last week they had an all Sox Friday night with a special on 1967, which I was dying to see, because that is the team that made me into the lunatic fan that I am. They blacked out that and the Remy Report the entire weekend out of market. I just don't understand that. If I am paying for NESN why would they black out their own programming? I can understand when they have to abide by MLB restrictions, but this seemed to be unecessary ballbusting. I'd really like to get my hands on a copy of that Impossible Dream show. Any suggestions?

[schillingouttheks]

FANS WIN! The package is still going to be on CABLE TELEVISION!

 

LINK!

 

The deal needs to be finalized, but they have the deal in principle.

[RedSoxRooter]

Kerry should run for Pres now! He'd get my vote.

[Remember the Titans]

Kerry should run for Pres now! He'd get my vote.

 

i'm pretty sure mlb made that deal with cable not kerry.