DirecTV acknowledges proposed deal for exclusive Extra Innings rights

According to Sports Business Journal, DirecTV wants to work a deal with MLB to make Extra Innings exclusively available to its customers just like NFL Season Ticket. I can't decide if this would be a good move or a bad move for MLB, but being a Dish Network customer with a one year commitment, this would stink.

Here's a blog entry on this:
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/barnako/2007/01/directv_wants_m.html

 

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Since Congress is looking into the NFL's monopoly with DirecTV, this is odd.

 

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Oh, please no. I can live with going to a bar on Sundays to see the team I follow play, but I LOVE being able to come home and watch baseball whenever -- even if I do live in the most heavily blacked-out market in the country (six teams -- none of which play in my city -- claim my town as a home market, including two that play a 10-hour drive away from me). I hate the way the Extra Innings package works, but I still don't want to lose it.

 

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Only one cable provides the MLB Extra Innings package in Canada. And, as luck would have it, that cable provider does not service my area.

It sucks.

So, for those Dish Network subscribers, I feel for you.

 

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I find this very irritating DirecTV... sure it makes good business sense, but I want the NFL Ticket and the only way to get it is to get a dish... but I can get the NBA, MLB (for now) and NHL package on cable... just not the NFL. That annoys and irritates me! [/endofwhine]

 

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wtf? ok, so where do you live and which are these six teams? i'm assuming you live on the east coast.

 

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this would both suck and blow.

 

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The only place I can think would be in New York. You could have the Red Sox, Yankees, Mets, Phillies, Orioles and Nationals.

 

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I didn't say it made sense, I was just guessing a city that would be close to six MLB teams.
Out West I could see somewhere like Utah having Seattle, Colorado, San Francisco, Oakland, Arizona and either LA or Anaheim - whichever is farther north.

 

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This is the correct answer and the correct six teams.

It's asinine. We get enough Dodgers and Angels games on cable for them to stake their claim. We get occasional Padres and D-backs local broadcasts, maybe five to six games per year, not enough to mention. We get no local A's or Giants broadcasts.

 

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You must live in Vegas.

Vegas and Iowa are the only two places in the country with six home teams.

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