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Cable: We'll match DirecTV's MLB commitment
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Last Update: 1:11 PM ET Mar 21, 2007
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Cable television operators are offering to meet the terms of a new contract between Major League Baseball and DirecTV (DTV : directv group inc com
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DTV22.83, +0.21, +0.9%) to carry the popular "MLB Extra Innings" game package -- terms that would allow cable to offer the same games to its customers. A provision in the new MLB-DirecTV deal requires the current carriers of the "MLB Extra Innings" package -- cable companies and the satellite firm EchoStar Communications Corp. (DISH : EchoStar Communications Corp
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DISH42.67, -0.66, -1.5%) -- to agree to carry the new MLB Channel under terms "proportionally equivalent" to DirecTV's financial commitment. Should those entities not match DirecTV's commitment, "MLB Extra Innings" would become exclusive to DirecTV. On Wednesday, iN Demand Networks, the provider of many video-on-demand and pay-per-view programs to cable, said it has offered to carry "MLB Extra Innings" and the MLB channel under the same terms agreed to by DirecTV. "This offer meets all the conditions set forth by MLB last week," commented Robert Jacobson, president and chief executive of iN Demand, in a statement. He added that cable companies "stand ready to execute an agreement before the beginning of the baseball season."
Cable: We'll match DirecTV's MLB commitment
PrintDisable live quotesRSSDigg itDel.icio.usBy David B. Wilkerson
Last Update: 1:11 PM ET Mar 21, 2007
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Cable television operators are offering to meet the terms of a new contract between Major League Baseball and DirecTV (DTV : directv group inc com
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DTV22.83, +0.21, +0.9%) to carry the popular "MLB Extra Innings" game package -- terms that would allow cable to offer the same games to its customers. A provision in the new MLB-DirecTV deal requires the current carriers of the "MLB Extra Innings" package -- cable companies and the satellite firm EchoStar Communications Corp. (DISH : EchoStar Communications Corp
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DISH42.67, -0.66, -1.5%) -- to agree to carry the new MLB Channel under terms "proportionally equivalent" to DirecTV's financial commitment. Should those entities not match DirecTV's commitment, "MLB Extra Innings" would become exclusive to DirecTV. On Wednesday, iN Demand Networks, the provider of many video-on-demand and pay-per-view programs to cable, said it has offered to carry "MLB Extra Innings" and the MLB channel under the same terms agreed to by DirecTV. "This offer meets all the conditions set forth by MLB last week," commented Robert Jacobson, president and chief executive of iN Demand, in a statement. He added that cable companies "stand ready to execute an agreement before the beginning of the baseball season."
