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2015 Dodger Baseball Broadcast
Hello Cox TV~ When are you going to make a deal to broadcast their games, we missed out seeing & hearing VINCE SCULLY all of 2014...Please don't block us fans out of another year. All we want it to see our favorite Baseball Team on TV.
Please send the latest up date on negotiations all we want is the opportunity to watch our team play ball & please don't disappoint us by failing to make a deal as we are tired of waiting.
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Both parties agree to keep negotiations private until a deal is reached. There is a misconception that programmers pay cable companies to distribute their networks and content. In fact, Cox and all video providers are required to pay billions of dollars to TV networks for the rights to distribute their programming. When the wholesale cost of television programming increases, it drives up your (retail) cable bill. In particular, sports programming is the most expensive of all programming. Professional teams pay large sums of money to sign the best players possible. Recently, the Los Angeles Dodgers gave Clayton Kershaw a seven year, $215 million deal. Television programmers such as Time Warner help fund those salaries by buying TV rights to the team's games. Television programmers then raise the wholesale cost of this programming for television carriers to distribute those sports programs to their customers.
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