Sam Koppelman

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · We Investigated Magic Johnson, Mark Walter... and Your Nest Egg · 4 Sep 2026 podcast

All of which is to say, Mark Walter basically made money the second he bought the Dodgers.

A problem.

Yes, usually when it seems like there's a bunch of free money, someone is in a tough spot.

And in this case, Time Warner Cable Sports still had to figure out a way to fund their unprecedented TV contract with the Dodgers, which proved almost impossible for a time because Time Warner Sportsnet LA only aired in a third of the LA market.

And all these other major pay

TV operators like the ones David Sampson was begging to make a deal with.

They refused to carry this new channel, according to the Los Angeles Times, citing its hefty distribution fee, which basically just means Time Warner paid a certain amount of money for the Dodgers rights.

And then they were going to try to charge the other channels some kind of profit.

And those other channels were like, absolutely not.

get over how long this blackout lasted.

And you'd think that in a situation like this, things might start getting hairy for Mark Walter, the new owner of this team, who's got this entity with this giant TV rights deal, Time Warner, SportsNet LA.

But less than two months after the channel's debut in February 2014, something fascinating happened.

While the games were blacked out,

someone provided a huge capital infusion to Time Warner Sportsnet LA and its parent company, American Media Productions, whose only known asset, again, is Sportsnet LA.

Insurance Company.

American Media Productions L L C.

A combined total of three hundred and fifty milyen dollars.

As of April twenty fifth, twenty fourteen, Equitrust's owner was Mark Walter's Guggenheim partners.

No, even though either side is the same side.

Unfortunately, his company has not responded to Hunterbruck's repeated requests for comment.

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