The alleged goal was to make sure no one broke from the refusenik pack, intensifying the pressure on Time Warner Cable to cut its asking price for the Dodger channel. That’s on top of the nearly $4 a month that Time Warner Cable reportedly extracted for the Lakers channel. Time Warner Cable agreed in 2013 to pay the Dodgers’ new owners $8.35 billion over 25 years for the rights to the Dodgers — with no guarantees about the quality of the product. So when DirecTV pushed back against Time Warner Cable, it was fighting the good fight for most pay-TV subscribers. [Time Warner Cable spun off from Time Warner in 2009, and was subsumed into Charter earlier this year.]

Source: Los Angeles Times November 03, 2016 20:48 UTC