From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

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But first on the news banter, the battle over the Dodgers cable channel,

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Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my banter buddy, Michael Schneider of TV Guide magazine.

Hello, Michael.

Hello, Kim.

So, Michael, the politicians are getting involved in this ongoing grinding battle.

As you know, the Dodgers have a channel, Sportsnet, L.A., that's supposed to carry their games in Los Angeles.

They have gotten a huge sum of money from Time Warner Cable to carry this channel and manage the channel,

i.e. sell it to other carriers.

And the other carriers, led by DirecTV, have said, we're not paying huge amounts of money for this

channel. And that has led to basically a blackout for 70% of people in L.A. But it's also a symptom of a

bigger struggle over what you have to pay for as a cable subscriber

and what will be crammed down your throat by these gigantic companies.

Yeah, there's a number of issues at play here.

I mean, this is the ecosystem of big budget sports.

In L.A., especially the new owners of the Dodgers, spent a pretty penny for the team.

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