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Time Warner Cable Interested In Spending Billions to Buy Los Angeles Dodgers

Phillip Dampier January 9, 2012 Consumer News, Editorial & Site News 2 Comments

At a time when cable television rates continue to spiral upwards in excess of the rate of inflation, Time Warner Cable’s interest in spending several billion dollars to acquire a professional baseball team seems strange.

The Los Angeles Times reports the cable giant is considering buying the Los Angeles Dodgers at a price that could exceed $2 billion.  It would compliment two new regional sports cable channels Time Warner plans to launch in southern California featuring the Los Angeles Lakers.

Time Warner Cable Sports president David Rone confirmed the cable company has a strong interest in carrying the Dodger games.  Purchasing the team outright could be much easier (and eventually cheaper) than negotiating against competing broadcasters and cable networks just to acquire the airing rights.

But at the same time customers are facing higher cable bills after the latest round of rate increases, it is ironic a cable operator complaining about programming costs and expenses would suddenly be willing to part with billions for a single baseball team.  For New York sports fans coping with the loss of MSG, sports programming Time Warner calls too expensive, it could prove counter-productive to complain about the cost of sports on the east coast while considering a $2+ billion purchase out west.

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digitlman
digitlman
12 years ago

Idiots.

jr
jr
12 years ago

Time for more “bandwidth hogs” articles from the MSM toadies

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