Most Dodgers fans outside downtown Los Angeles can’t find a cable-TV provider willing to carry games produced by team-owned SportsNet LA. The problem is sending chills through sports and broadcast-industry insiders because there is no easy solution.
Inside sports business
NEW YORK – Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred looked like a hitter already down two strikes to Felix Hernandez with a changeup headed his way.
Manfred had just been asked about a regional sports network (RSN) carriage dispute preventing 60 percent of viewers in Los Angeles from watching the Dodgers on local television this final season of legendary broadcaster Vin Scully’s career.