no doubt. no cable provider is going to carry this idiotic channel.

Was I missing something or wasnt this announced a few months ago?

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Can't wait to hear Bernsie spin himself into the ground on this.

Twitter was unable to convince them to change their minds.

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Rpb fully on board!

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Trump should throw out the season's first pitch.

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Kyle Schwarber goes down swinging and just a reminder the Republicans are the ones who ended slavery. Now here is Anthony Rizzo.

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I dont really care about the politics of Sinclair. There is a zero percent chance this goes the way of sportsvision or that Cub games will be unavailable to a significant amount of fans.

Zero chance? It happened to the Dodgers.

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THEY.KNOW.THE.TV.MARKET.INEFFICIENCIES.

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I guess Im confused with what is being alleged here. Dodger fans can absolutely pay for the channel and watch games right?

He used a nice, undefined term like significant, so he is covered.

rpb being able to get the games could be considered a significant amount to him

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Yeah the Ricketts are just inbred rubes who Beverly Hillbillied their way into billionairedom and have zero idea how to run and market a business .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

You dont even know what you're laughing at.

I'll take that bet.

This is going to be a epic disaster

Sportsvision set the Sox back decades. Do you expect that to happen here?

was it Comcast in LA that told them to fuck off with the Dodger TV? whatever. most of the town couldn't even watch the games.

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Nope.

You can't subscribe to the channel unless you are a Time Warner subscriber.

The other cable providers refuse to pay the carriage fee. Time Warner refuses to have the channel as a sports-tier channel.

Sox fans are used to being counted individually making up a significant portion.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I guess I had some bad info.

I will be shocked if this ends up anything like sportsvision. I guess time will tell.

But in the five years since the Cubs planted the seed of the regional sports network, the pay-TV landscape has changed dramatically, with cord cutting and skinny bundles squeezing the carriage fees cable companies are willing to pay for even sports, long the most valuable programming commodity.

That is where the Cubs’ partnership with Maryland-based Sinclair, the country’s largest TV station owner, comes into play. Sinclair owns 191 TV stations and the Tennis Channel, which gives it leverage in negotiations with cable and satellite providers such as Comcast, DirecTV and Dish.

Since acquiring the Tennis Channel in 2016 for $350 million, for example, Sinclair has doubled its reach to 60 million homes.

“We have strong relationships with cable companies and satellite operators,” said Sinclair’s president and CEO, Chris Ripley. “That is a key function we will fill here.”

Ripley expressed confidence in getting not only cable and satellite providers, but streaming services to sign up for the new Cubs network. Negotiations are underway, he said.



Seems like the bolded part is significant.

IM NOT GIVING UP MY TENNIS CHANNEL!!

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MLB currently prohibits any team from doing that. It has to go through a cable company. So if comcast says no then all comcast customers are out of luck on legal ways to watch. Illegal streams will exist but the Cubs aren't getting paid for those.

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The problem here is that you guys believe the Dodgers or White Sox fanbase is comparable to the Cubs. It's not.

I dont care at all about the Cubs getting paid.

Comcast will cut a deal.

#WINNING

My monthly Xfinity bill includes $8.25 (!) regional sports fee. You expect cable providers agree to increase that when it's already astronomical?

Zero chance. Cubs/Sinclair are fucked.