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Fan Group Launches Drive to Air More Blazers Games on TV

On the theory that sports fans have an inalienable right to watch their teams, regardless of disputes between suppliers and providers, a group of fans has begun an online petition drive aimed at blocking the mammoth merger of Comcast and NBC-Universal. According to the Oregonian, the Sports Fans Coalition, a...

Congress's DirectTV Pleas Fall On Deaf Ears

Well, if you were hoping and praying Congress would nix baseball's eminent deal with DirectTV which is effectively taking non-local games off cable's Extra Innings pay package and hosting them over at the dish company, it looks like they lost the battle.Senators spent two hours urging Major League Baseball and TV...

Politicians, CEOs Discuss MLB's 'Extra Innings' Deal

Officials from Major League Baseball, iN Demand, DirectTV, EchoStar and various other heads of companies met with senators in Congress today in a hearing moderated by concerned baseball fan John Kerry. Why? To discuss MLB's pending deal with DirectTV which will give the satellite service exclusive access to Extra Innings....

Cox Offers Free MLB.TV to Past 'Extra Innings' Subscribers

The on-going saga regarding whether DirectTV will have exclusive access to selling MLB's Extra Innings package just got a little interesting. In order to help quell the backlash to not being able to offer televised out-of-market games to their customers this year, Cox Cable has decided to throw a bone to all of their...

MLB's Extra Innings Deal Isn't Exclusive to DirectTV ... Yet

Remember the uproar over Major League Baseball's decision to offer their Extra Innings package exclusively to DirectTV? Well, it turns out the package isn't exclusive ... yet, at least. An agreement between MLB and DirectTV was announced via a conference call yesterday, with the two parties revealing that In Demand (the...