For the fifth consecutive year, the Dodgers will be off the air in a majority of Southern California homes.
The team and its television partner announced Friday that five games will be shown on KTLA (Channel 5). The games, all in March and April, will be simulcasts of the SportsNet LA broadcasts, which otherwise are available only to customers of Spectrum, a brand of Charter Communications.
"Other distributors are not expected to carry SportsNet LA this season," Spectrum said in a statement.
As a result, Charter is the only major pay-TV distributor in Southern California to carry SportsNet LA, and the Dodgers broadcasts go unseen by a majority of fans.