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Time Warner Cable Sports to Tip Off Lakers-Centric RSNs on Oct. 1
It will be interesting to see what type of carriage issues arise with these new sports channels. Here is an excerpt from the article found in the link below:
It's official now: Time Warner Cable will tip off its two regional sports networks, centering on the Los Angeles Lakers, on Oct. 1.
The largest MSO in Los Angeles will bow Time Warner Cable SportsNet and Spanish-language RSN Time Warner Cable Deportes, which will have its own production team and programming sensibilities, shortly before the National Basketball Association begins its 2012-13 season, according to Time Warner Cable Sports president David Rone.
Rone, in an interview, said Time Warner Cable counts some 2 million customers in the RSNs' territory that extends from "Fresno to the north, the Mexican border to the south, east to Palm Springs and Las Vegas, and Hawaii to the west." All told, those areas encompass some 6 million TV homes.
Rone said that he, senior vice president and general manager of Time Warner Cable Sports Regional Networks Mark Shuken and Dan Finnerty, the senior vice president of Time Warner Cable Sports, who heads affiliate sales, recently began discussions with potential distributors.
"We have not had many of them, they literally began last week. In between now and the NCTA Cable Show [which starts May 21 in Boston}, we will have gotten in front of all of the MVPDs that we need to speak to. I'm stressing MVPDs because we're speaking to MSOs, satellite companies and telcos."
Rone would not discuss pricing. Published reports have placed the ask at $3.50 per subscriber for the pair of networks. For his part, ISI Group analyst Vijay Jayant pegs the price at $2.50 per month per subscriber.
A former executive at Fox Sports, CAA and Evolution Media Capital, Rone did say Time Warner Cable Sports' distribution game plan calls for equal footing for the services.
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lkrsfn
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Get the deal done already! If at&t doesn't get twc sportsnet soon, i'm going to cancel in a week or so, I'm not taking any chances and miss any regular season games.
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oufanindallas
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You do realize that only those in the LA viewing area will be able to view the game regardless of what provider you have. NBA blackouts prevent viewing of professional teams outside of the regional viewing area. So even if UVerse or Cox or Comcast or Dish or Direct had a contract with TWC for the channel they still wouldn't be able to watch the games outside of LA.
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I was looking at Titan TV listings in my area and see the following:
1777 TWCLAHD
1779 TWCESPHH
I assume its English and Spanish TWC Los Angeles networks in HD. I don't see them in the SD area though. Can someone else confirm if they are seeing the same thing?
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oufanindallas
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Yes I'm seeing it. Titan has been wrong before, and they have also jumped the gun on putting listings in that contracts haven't been finalized but in the works. Who knows, maybe it will show up one day. AT&T usually doesn't announce any channel until a few weeks after it's been added
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bighead23
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great, no lakers but now i got another channel appearing FSSD san diego i guess. wow minor league baseball in the padres-now that the season is over. ohhhhh that with make me forget all about the lakers. 3 fox sport channels really?
and yeah i know nobody has the channel yet
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rwnewell
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I can't get the Lakers!! If I can't get them on U-Verse TV, I'll have to switch services. Tell me I will be able to see the Lakers...I really don't want to have to go through the hassle!
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rwnewell
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The bottom line is, I can't get the Lakers! Why even have cable TV???
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rwnewell
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So...We're being screwed by the Lakers AND by our local TV provider. Great. If this is about a lousy 3.95 per month, we'll pay it. Otherwise, guess we'll have to switch back to TWC...
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rwnewell
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So...We're being screwed by the Lakers AND by our TV providers...
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