--- title: Why Dodgers Fans Can Love the Time Warner Cable Merger description: 'The proposed merger between Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications gives Los Angeles Dodgers fans at least one reason to cheer: It will now be easier to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers. In Los Angeles.' authors: - name: Jacob Davidson url: https://money.com/author/jacob-davidson/ at_money_since: 2014 articles: 106 covers: - Business - Banking - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/JakeD former_staff: true published: '2015-05-27T14:12:15.000Z' modified: '2015-05-27T14:12:15.000Z' section: Business tags: - Baseball - Charter - Dodgers - pubdesk - Time Warner Cable - time warner cable merger word_count: 202 canonical: https://money.com/la-dodgers-time-warner-cable-charter/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![at Dodger Stadium on May 26, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.](https://img.money.com/2015/05/gettyimages-474819570.jpg) The proposed merger between Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications gives Los Angeles Dodgers fans one reason to cheer. It will now be easier to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers. In Los Angeles. Since the 2014 season, this has been surprisingly difficult. Time Warner Cable is the exclusive carrier of SportsNet LA, the Dodgers-owned channel broadcasting LA's games. Other cable providers, like Comcast and Charter, have thus far balked at the price of the channel, [leaving 70% of the greater Los Angeles area without regular access to televised Dodgers games](http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-dodger-channel-20150406-story.html#page=1). Charter's purchase of Time Warner Cable for $56 billion may provide some relief. The *Los Angeles Times* [reports](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-charter-communications-to-offer-dodgers-tv-channel-20150526-story.html) Charter will begin providing SportsNet LA to its 300,000 regional subscribers in the coming weeks. This won't necessarily convince other cable providers to pick up the channel as well, but the *Times* speculates Charter's move could put additional pressure on competitors to follow its lead. But the picture may not be as rosy as it seems. [Some cable analysts believe](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/time-warner-deal-unlikely-to-bring-dodger-games-to-all-of-la-2015-05-27) Charter will charge competing providers the same high fees as before once it takes over Time Warner Cable, and other local cable companies and satellite providers will continue to steer clear of the channel. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/la-dodgers-time-warner-cable-charter/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Business", "item": "https://money.com/business/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Media", "item": "https://money.com/media/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Why Dodgers Fans Can Love the Time Warner Cable Merger" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/la-dodgers-time-warner-cable-charter/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/la-dodgers-time-warner-cable-charter/", "name": "Why Dodgers Fans Can Love the Time Warner Cable Merger", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2015-05-27T14:12:15.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/la-dodgers-time-warner-cable-charter/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/la-dodgers-time-warner-cable-charter/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2015-05-27T14:12:15.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Why Dodgers Fans Can Love the Time Warner Cable Merger", "articleSection": "Business", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2015/05/gettyimages-474819570.jpg", "width": 2521, "height": 3000, "caption": "at Dodger Stadium on May 26, 2015 in Los Angeles, California." } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jacob Davidson", "url": "https://money.com/author/jacob-davidson/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/jacob-davidson/#author", "image": "https://money.com/content.money.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/jake-davidson-2.jpg?crop=35px%2C18px%2C872px%2C872px&resize=640%2C640&quality=85&strip&ssl=1", "email": "jake.davidson@yoh.timeinc.com", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/JakeD" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2015-05-27T14:12:15.000Z", "description": "The proposed merger between Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications gives Los Angeles Dodgers fans at least one reason to cheer: It will now be easier to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers. 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