We have different players here. Now the distributor who carries the channel is not Time Warner Cable; it's a company out of Connecticut called Charter, which bought Time Warner Cable last year and sort of inherited this problem of an automatic contract for the Dodger's Channel.

I think there was a lot of optimism largely because the games were available on broadcast over the air TV channel 5 at the end of last season. Because the companies really wanted to allow long-time fans who did not have time warner cable or charter spectrum service to see Vin Scully's last few games so this deal was reached that Channel 5 broadcast the last few games of Scully's career. People thought, 'Oh! This might be a signal that come next Spring we'll get the Dodgers on broadcast TV,' but that's not the case.

The Dodgers have been hammered PR wise for the channel. They own the channel but their channel is not widely seen in LA. keep in mind there are more than 2 million homes in LA that do have the channel. So it's not like it's a total blackout. But the Dodgers are in an awkward spot because they made this very lucrative deal with Time Warner. They're making hundreds of millions of dollars a year, their revenue is guaranteed from Charter. So they don't have a business incentive to change the deal because the revenue is guaranteed. Long term, it's not a great proposition for the Dodgers because as time goes on and people don't watch the product, it becomes less valuable for them.

It's not going to happen, at least at the front part of this season.​​