Kerry Presses MLB as Clock Ticks Toward Deadline
Senator John Kerry (D-MA) continued to press Major League Baseball on its Extra Innings deal yesterday. In a Senate Commerce committee hearing, Kerry urged MLB to accept Cable’s offer – made last week via the iN Demand consortium – to carry the Extra Innings game package at the same terms as DirecTV, while holding off on carriage details of MLB’s yet-to-be launched new network, The Baseball Channel, until it debuts in 2009. MLB, not surprisingly, balked, saying DirecTV “has the right to begin to help us build the channel.” Meanwhile, the clock ticks away on MLB’s end-of-March ultimatum to all providers other than DirecTV.
Posted on March 28, 2007 01:44 PM | Comments (1)
I am a woman and I love baseball. I ordered Major League Extra Innings last year and enjoyed coming home everyday to watch my favorite teams in action. I reget that this season I will only have to option of watching games televised on ESPN once a week or less. It is sad how DirecTV and Major league Baseball forces us to settle for less than we deserve. I am sure that their are enough baseball fans in the worlds to have the best of Cable & DirecTV. I hope MLB accepts the offer made by the cable networks.
Posted by: Cora Aaron | March 28, 2007 04:39 PM