<P> In September 2016, after acquiring TWC, Charter indicated it would price the 2017 season above $4.50 . "(The previous) deal is no longer on the table--it didn't work," said Charter Chief Executive Thomas Rutledge to the Los Angeles Times . "We would love to sell the channel to others, but no one has bought it--and we are not giving it away . So if consumers want the Dodger channel, they'll need to subscribe to us to get it ." </P> <P> At the end of the inaugural 2014 season, some observers saw TWC's inability to resell the channel as having industry - wide consequences . Los Angeles Times business reporter Joe Flint called the standoff a potentially "definitive moment for the world of sports programming, as the industry realizes that exorbitantly priced television deals can backfire ." Some business consultants to sports franchises reported a drop of interest in forming regional sports networks dedicated to a single team . </P> <P> In its first two baseball seasons, Time Warner Cable lost more than $100 million a year on SportsNet LA due to the channel's limited distribution . TWC Sports President David B. Rone, who was instrumental in the company's foray into regional sports programming, departed TWC in October 2015 . </P> <P> By June 2017, the SportsNet LA viewership for Dodger games had dropped 49% from 2013, shifting from 154,000 households to 79,000 . Television viewership for the Dodgers' regional rivals, the Los Angeles Angels, initially soared to 107,000 households per game in 2014 . But that number dropped over the 2015 and 2016 seasons, averaging just 47,000 households in the first few months of the 2017 season, even though the games are broadcast on all major carriers . </P>

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