Major league baseball is trying very hard to chase away its fan base and make football the national pastime. The latest move is to shut out fans who would like to buy out of market games by signing an exclusive deal with DirecTV.
As detailed by Associated Press, baseball is close to signing a contract that would take away the “Extra Innings” package from cable and Dish Network customers, 230,000 of whom paid for the service last year.
So fans will have to switch to DirecTV, watch online, or give up on watching their favorite team that happens to play somewhere else.
Baseball’s online package is less than half the cost of Extra Innings, so you could also pay for SlingMedia’s SlingProjector, which sends web video to your TV. MLB is inadvertently promoting broadband TV by forcing people to go online to watch.
Fans have Senator John Kerry on their […]
Published by John Gartner
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