Comcast subscribers in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding area will finally be able to see Washington Nationals baseball games next month on regional sports channel Mid-Atlantic Sports Network. An
agreement was cut late last week that will bring MASN to 1.6 million people in the metro Washington and Baltimore areas on an expanded basis. As part of the pact, MASN and Comcast also agreed to drop
various complaints against each other. Terms were not disclosed, but other MASN carriers are said to be paying an estimated $1.35 per subscriber, per month,
Multichannel News reports. The deal
also applies to subscribers in Salisbury, Md., while some 600,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina will have to wait until 2007 and 2008 to get the network. Although the
contract language talks about Comcast airing MASN Sept. 1, the company must legally give customers 30 days' notice on the lineup change--a requirement that could push the debut to around Labor Day.
The agreement was prompted by a Federal Communications Commission order on the approval of Comcast's and Time Warner's acquisition of Adelphia Communications.
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