Through the past 66 seasons, Vin Scully’s melodic voice has brought Dodgers baseball to the team’s fans on radio and television.
His distinctive sound was accessible to virtually anyone who tuned in — until last season, when a fight erupted over the cost of the team’s new cable network, SportsNet LA.
Since then, about 70 percent of the Los Angeles market has been unable to accept Scully’s invitations to pull up a chair and listen to his television calls. A dispute has raged between Time Warner Cable, which paid $8.35 billion for the rights to carry the team’s network for 25 years, and the cable, satellite and telephone companies that have rejected the network’s price as too steep.