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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Charter Communications will carry&amp;nbsp;SportsNet LA, allowing hundreds of thousands of Southern California viewers to watch Dodgers games starting Tuesday, according to the &lt;em&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"The Dodgers are an iconic franchise and part of the fabric of the community,\" Tom Rutledge, chief executive of Charter Communications, said in a statement Thursday, according to the &lt;em&gt;Times&lt;/em&gt;. \"We are very excited to be bringing the Dodgers back to Charter customers in the L.A. area.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The communications company had previously resisted carrying the sports channel\u2014one of the most expensive regional sports networks in the country, according to the &lt;i&gt;Times&lt;/i&gt;\u2014preventing its customers from watching the Dodgers.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Two weeks ago, Charter purchased Time Warner Cable, one of the only local cable outlets to carry SportsNet LA.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 CORCORAN: Awards Watch: Donaldson, Trout neck and neck in AL MVP race\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In January 2013, Time Warner and the Dodgers agreed to a television deal worth $8.35 billion over 25 years. Since then, Time Warner has had trouble convincing other cable carriers to broadcast SportsNet LA at the price they have asked for, leaving around 70% of the Los Angeles area unable to watch the Dodgers.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In March, the &lt;em&gt;New York Post&lt;/em&gt; reported that Time Warner would likely lose $1 billion in the deal.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Alex Putterman&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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