For the first time since the launch of SportsNet LA in 2014, there appears to be significant movement toward potentially getting the Dodgers' own network into a majority of Los Angeles television households. Time Warner has cut its price by 30 percent in hopes of luring DirecTV and the other major carrier holdouts, per Meg James of the Los Angeles Times.
The lure of getting Vin Scully's final season behind the microphone to as wide an audience as possible, as well as mounting losses by Time Warner, reported by the LA Times at over $100 million per year since agreeing to the $8.