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Dodgers Fans Respond To Being Shut Out on SportsNetLA Launch

SportsNetLA officially launched Tuesday night at 7PM. Time Warner Cable and its 2 Million subscribers in Los Angles were the only ones to see it. Yes two Million homes is no small number but they are still missing out on 55% of the market’s TV households. Subscribers on DirecTV AT&T U-verse Verizon Fios, Cox, Charter, Dish among others will have to wait it out and see if an agreement will soon be reached. The Dodgers and SportsNetLA have been actively telling its fans to go to INeedMyDodgers.com and demand for their carriers to pick up the channel. We also felt that we need to put pressure on these companies and took to twitter to have people re-tweet and voice frustrations to their cable provider. We sent out a few tweets as seen below, and were encouraged from the response.

The amount of retweets and tweets directed at the providers I heard back from a few of them.

So the fans will have to continue to wait, to be held hostage at this point until agreements are finally in place. How long? That we don’t know and can only hope its around the corner. I know a lot of fans are switching to Time Warner cable already and not willing to give their provider much more time.

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    • I totally agree with you. I am a dodger fan but will not be blackmailed to pay extra for a sports channel since we have received it for free. I blame time warner and I also blame the dodgers for this deal. The dodgers should think of the fans that support them, win or lose.

      Reva

    • Fuck time warner i am a die hard dodger fan but have since focused on the angels. cant root for a team i now know nothing about now. magic this is bullshit. u need to handle this shit. fuuuuuuuuccccccvkkkkkkk time warner cable. i wont switch cable providers just switch LA teams. fuck u time warner.

  2. You guys should have thought about your loyal fans, I am not switching my satellite carrier so my household will have to without the dodgers this year.

  3. It’s funny to me to have TWC to tell everyone to complain to THEIR provider about taking the deal with TWC. It should be that WE complain to TWC for trying to screw all of the Dodger faithful. It was TWC who put in the bid of $8.35 billion and they expect US fans to pay the bill. TWC’s subscribers are paying around $4/5 bucks a month- even if they don’t watch or like the Dodgers. Plus TWC is charging money for the commercials that they air on the channel.
    I am a subscriber with DirecTV and will NOT change to the crappy TWC because everything about them SUCKS!!! If I miss the season on tv, I’ll be listening to the radio broadcast. I find it disgusting that TWC wants the fans to put up a nice big chunk on the money when they should take it from the CEO!

  4. I dont mind paying a little more for cable if the Dodgers continue to be the West Coast version of the Yankees. As a Dodger fan, I am happy that we can have a chance at any free agent we want, and at the same time have the money to build a great farm system. I really think this TV deal give the Dodgers that type of might. So, I dont blame TWC they help fund the Dodgers player pay roll. I blame Charter, and Direct TV.

  5. I used to have time warner cable but cancelled them last year after their dispute with CBS. During the dispute they shut down all stations related which meant I could not view the Dodgers on KCAL 9. Time Warner left a message stating that CBS was asking too much and would raise costs for viewers. Time Warner said CBS was holding their customers hostage. Pretty hypocritical if you ask me. Time Warner spends $2 billion to launch their own network and ask us all to pay more to view their station. Isn’t that what they said they didn’t like about what CBS was doing to their customers? I don’t mind paying more to watch the Dodgers but I thought I should point that out. I’ve been a Dodgers fan ever since I was a little kid so for for over 25 years. I’ve watched every season on my local stations (you should be able to watch your local sports teams on your local stations in my mind) and if something doesn’t change soon between these cable companies, and don’t see the big picture regarding the fan base, they are going to have hundreds of thousands of fans pissed off including me.

    • Aaron,
      I agree with you completely. If I was with twc and didn’t like the Dodgers and or baseball, I would be pissed off to be paying an extra $4/5 a month for a channel that I wouldn’t be watching. twc are hypocrites and hate everything about them. My work has twc in the crew quarters and the reception sucks as well as a fee of the channels don’t even come in. And because twc is a bully with a new toy, they are being dicks and over pricing everyone. Like I said before, if I was the head of twc, I would rather have every cable/satellite provider on board with me paying a nice fair price other then having to price too dam high and just have me paying for the channel.

  6. I’m old enough to remember the only thing we had in the 60s was radio. If we were lucky we’d get to see an occasional game on TV. I love to watch my Dodgers but I’m ready to go back to classic radio and hope for a simulcast with the best announcer in sports.

  7. “We also felt that we need to put pressure on these companies and took to twitter to have people re-tweet and voice frustrations to their cable provider.”

    How about we put some pressure on the Dodgers and Times Warner? You guys made your beds, now lie in it. We don’t HAVE to watch Dodger games on TV, we don’t have to even go to Dodger games! We’ll catch the box scores in the paper or on the internet until you guys get your hands out of our pockets.

    Those of us with cable will catch you when you play the Angels. IF you make it to the World Series we’ll catch you on broadcast TV. Maybe we’ll catch you on the radio.

  8. 07/02/2012 at 4:54 pmI think it is great that Time Warner has an app for iPhone that will allow setraming. The only issue that I see with it is that it doesn’t let you setram anything from your DVR, and you must be at home to watch those channels that you do get. I have the DISH Remote Access app which is similar to the Time Warner app in that it lets me setram live TV to my iPhone. One big difference is that I can setram any show or movie from my 922 SlingLoaded receiver to my phone anywhere I am. It literally goes farther than the Time Warner app by letting setram anywhere I am, whether it’s on my way to DISH where I work, or at the library waiting for class to start. Time Warner has a good app for iPhone and iPad, but it still has many opportunities for improvement. Log in to Reply

  9. FIRST THE LAKERS NOW THE DODGERS????!!! GO FUCK YOURSELVES TWC INCONSIDERATE DICKHEADS!!!! IF I DONT GET MY DODGERS BY TOMORROW I WILL FUCK YOU UP!!

  10. Dodger fan from the the start. I’m done. Hello Padres. I’m 52 years old. Ive went to 10 games a year with my family of 5 and that won’t happen anymore. Good luck.

  12. I am pissed. Gave up my season tickets since the 60’s and only see a game when it’s national etc.
    Can’t listen to a game without paying FOR RADIO, as my reception is poor where we live. I would gladly give
    up a few high priced ballplayers and take a chance with our minor league (Rojas) guys to watch on Direct.
    Won’t be held as a hostage to change to a _______ cable network. Has to be a reason only 30% of L.A. can
    see them. I hold Magic & the other biggies as responsible as TWC, they had to know their reputation.
    I AM DONE WASTING MY TIME HERE…..you VIP’s have my eddress if u really giva a _______.
    Dick

  13. I miss my Dodgers so much and I’m so mad at the Dodger organization for doing this to us, I will not call my cable company and tell them to give me SportsNet, I would do the opposite and tell them not to do it, I will not be held hostage!! and I miss my Vinny so much, this may be his last year to broadcast for the Dodgers and we don’t get to hear him, what a shame.
    Everyone in the Dodger organization should be so ashamed of what they have done to all of us loyal fans, there’s no other team for me it’s always been the Dodgers, I really hope Tommy didn’t have anything to do with this, he couldn’t bleed blue and do this to us.

  14. Ned, you dropped the ball. Yo are leaving all the load to the only two good pitchers the dodgers have-kershaw and grienke-and maybe Ryu. The offense is a huge disappointment and now kershaw has to carry the whole team again. Remember what happened the last game of last year’s playoff series against the cardinals. Big mistake Ned huge mistake. Your not hungry to win this year like Oakland and Detroit. Loosing to the cubs proves it. I hope i am proven wrong but I dont think so ned

  15. So disappointed with the dodger organization and fuck time warner for taking not only the Dodgers but Americas past time from the poor and underprivilage viewers. Selfish greedy folks who never have enough and continuo taking the little things from the common people.

  16. I have been a loyal Dodger fan since their first year in LA back in 1958. Needless to say that I am highly disappointed that the Dodgers place a greater importance on their own greed rather than on fan loyalty when it comes to being able to see the Dodger games on TV. If their greed continues in the 2015 season, the Dodgers will most definitely convert me into a VERY loyal Angels fan. Personally, it is my belief that the Dodgers need to get their priorities in order. Greed is all the Dodgers care about as indicated by increases in ticket prices and the cost of parking. The Dodgers need to be reminded that loyalty is a “two way” street.

  18. Shame on Time Warner. So frustrating being shut out of another Dodger season. You grossly overpaid for the Dodgers contract and now you’re expecting your competitors and us fans to pay for your misstep. Dodgers are losing fans and I will never be a TWC customer on principle now.

  19. Screw you Dodgers!
    I am in SB county and there is no time Warner cable here and I am blacked out!!!
    Screw you!
    I will never listen to the Dodgers or buy a ticket there or buy a Dodgers merchandise item again, ever, if I am shit out of Vince Scully’s last season.

    Your decision greedy scum!!

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