Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Twins will be hard to find on TV tonight/Stadium Backers See Signs of Hope
From the Twins' perspective, this is not a good juxtaposition of stories in today's Minneapolis Star Tribune. As state Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson is saying the Twins have a 60/40 chance of winning legislative approval for a new stadium, fans around the state are about to lose access to 105 regular-season games because the Twins haven't been able to reach agreement with the region's major cable companies for distribution of their new Victory Sports One network.
The Twins continue to demand that Victory Sports be placed on the expanded basic tier, at a monthly cost of $2.20-$2.30 per subscriber. That would be 50-60 cents/month more than Fox Sports charged last year for the Twins plus the local NBA, NHL and college hockey clubs, and significantly more than the $1.93/month a panel of arbitrators decreed the Yankees' games were worth.
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From the Twins' perspective, this is not a good juxtaposition of stories in today's Minneapolis Star Tribune. As state Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson is saying the Twins have a 60/40 chance of winning legislative approval for a new stadium, fans around the state are about to lose access to 105 regular-season games because the Twins haven't been able to reach agreement with the region's major cable companies for distribution of their new Victory Sports One network.
The Twins continue to demand that Victory Sports be placed on the expanded basic tier, at a monthly cost of $2.20-$2.30 per subscriber. That would be 50-60 cents/month more than Fox Sports charged last year for the Twins plus the local NBA, NHL and college hockey clubs, and significantly more than the $1.93/month a panel of arbitrators decreed the Yankees' games were worth.
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