Cox To Carry Mid-Atlantic Sports Network

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Cox Communications has signed a deal to carry the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network.

That means that a quarter of a million homes in Northern Virginia will be able to get almost a full season (154 games) of Nationals baseball. Before the deal, they had access to TV coverage of only a handful of games for Washington's new Major League team.

Cox serves 260,000 customers in the D.C. surburb of Fairfax County and the outlying Fredericksburg.

The other major cable operator in the area, Comcast, does not carry MASN. It has a longstanding dispute with MASN owner, the Baltimore Orioles.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.