Cox customers can finally watch the Dodgers on SportsNet LA
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Set us as preferred Thirteen years ago, on the final Sunday in September, Skip Schumaker struck out.It was the last out in the last game of the regular season.For the Dodgers, no big deal: They had won the National League West, and the playoffs were four days away.For Dodgers fans that subscribed to Cox Communications, it turned out to be the start of a bizarre and protracted blackout that cost viewers the final years of Vin Scully and the golden years of three World Series championships.After 4,560 days, the blackout is over.
Hollywood Inc.More than 6 million customers in California will have Spectrum service.On Friday, for the first time in 13 years, Cox subscribers within the Dodgers’ broadcast territory will be able to watch the team on their local television home.
Fans can find SportsNet LA on Channel 63 in Orange County, Channel 54 in Palos Verdes, Channel 36 in Santa Barbara and Channel 50 in Las Vegas.How did this finally come to pass? Those channels no longer belong to Cox.Charter Communications, the company responsible for getting SportsNet LA on as many cable, satellite and streaming options as possible, on Thursday closed its $34.5-billion purchase of Cox.For Dodgers fans, the takeaway is this: It no longer matters that Cox did not want to pay Charter for the rights to air SportsNet LA.Charter made the 13 years of that moot by buying Cox.Charter offers broadcast service under the Spectrum brand.In 2013, with the team in the final year of its local television agreement with Fox Sports, the Dodgers announced it would launch a team-owned channel the following year.Major League Baseball’s team owners want fans to think that the players are ultimately the ones responsible for broadcast blackouts and streaming headaches.In exchange for the rights to market and distribute that SportsNet LA channel, Time Warner Cable...