(This was emailed to me, I dont know what website it came from to give credit)
Cox Offers MLB Extra Innings For Free
The $89.95 online offer is good in the San Diego area.
Washington, D.C. (March 20, 2007) -- Cox Cable may have tossed a curve at Major League Baseball's 'Extra Innings' agreement with satcaster DIRECTV.
Cox is offering the package of out of market games for free, according to the San Digeo Union-Tribune.
There's a catch, though. The newspaper reports that the free offer extends only to MLB.TV's Broadband service which offers the games online for $89.95 a year. In addition, it's unclear if the free offer will be available outside of the San Diego area.
MLB and DIRECTV this month announced a seven-year agreement for the satcaster to carry MLB's Extra Innings TV package, which includes dozens of out of market baseball games each week. DIRECTV plans to air most of the games in High-Definition by 2008.
The final deal allows MLB to offer the same package to DIRECTV's cable and satellite rivals such as EchoStar and In Demand, a cable-owned company that has provided Extra Innings to cable operators in the past.
But the agreement says EchoStar and the cable operators must match DIRECTV's offer by the start of the 2007 season. And with less than two weeks left before Opening Day, it looks unlikely that EchoStar and In Demand will be successful.
Cox Offers MLB Extra Innings For Free
The $89.95 online offer is good in the San Diego area.
Washington, D.C. (March 20, 2007) -- Cox Cable may have tossed a curve at Major League Baseball's 'Extra Innings' agreement with satcaster DIRECTV.
Cox is offering the package of out of market games for free, according to the San Digeo Union-Tribune.
There's a catch, though. The newspaper reports that the free offer extends only to MLB.TV's Broadband service which offers the games online for $89.95 a year. In addition, it's unclear if the free offer will be available outside of the San Diego area.
MLB and DIRECTV this month announced a seven-year agreement for the satcaster to carry MLB's Extra Innings TV package, which includes dozens of out of market baseball games each week. DIRECTV plans to air most of the games in High-Definition by 2008.
The final deal allows MLB to offer the same package to DIRECTV's cable and satellite rivals such as EchoStar and In Demand, a cable-owned company that has provided Extra Innings to cable operators in the past.
But the agreement says EchoStar and the cable operators must match DIRECTV's offer by the start of the 2007 season. And with less than two weeks left before Opening Day, it looks unlikely that EchoStar and In Demand will be successful.
