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Lakers off the Air on Frontier Cable: What Are Our Options?



Frontier Cable has recently discontinued the Lakers channel, saying Spectrum was asking for too much money. Spectrum, for their part, said Frontier was unwilling to pay enough money. Either side claims the other is being unreasonable to fans. All I know is a.) I am subscribed to Frontier and b.) I have lost local Lakers coverage.

I am asking the fanbase an honest question: What are our options?

I know I could switch providers (this is probably what Spectrum most hopes fans like me will do). But for all the people I know who use Spectrum, they have nothing but complaints. Is it worth all the hassle of switching for Lakers access, especially if I am 99% certain my other services (other channels, internet) will suffer?

League Pass is not an option. Lakers is blocked from local League Pass as part of their contract. In other words, if I lived in San Francisco or Alaska, I could league pass every Lakers game. But because I live in SoCal, I'm screwed.

I know this may affect only some of you, but I can't be the only fan here going through this. If you have Frontier cable, how have you handled this? If you don't have Frontier, how WOULD you handle it?

Help me, SSR community--you're my only hope.