Bud Selig still doesn’t want you to watch baseball on TV.
by briandtw on Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 at 04:31pm
As predicted, baseball rejects cable’s offer to match DirecTV. DirecTV’s stock goes ding, ding, ding:
“Major League Baseball rejected a bid by cable-television companies to retain a premium package of games, saying the terms don’t meet demands set by the league this month.
“Today’s offer by cable companies ‘falls short of nearly all the material conditions” required, the league said today in a statement. Baseball said cable companies and EchoStar Communications Corp.’s Dish Network can still match a deal struck by satellite-TV operator DirecTV Group Inc.
“The programming would include the Extra Innings package and the planned Baseball Channel, according to a statement today by In Demand Networks, owned by cable operators including the two largest, Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc., and Cox Communications Inc.”