Article: Prime Ticket slam dunks SC LA, grabs Clippers. (Los Angeles Clippers basketball team to move to basic cable from SportsChannel Los Angeles)

Prime Ticket Slam Dunks SC LA, Grabs Clippers

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Clippers basketball team will move to basic cable this season, after one year of pay cable exposure on SportsChannel Los Angeles.

Prime Ticket, which is already committed to show 39 regular season Los Angeles Lakers home games, will add 23 home and away Clippers games to its schedule. The service will pay between $65,000 and $75,000 per game for the one-year deal, sources close to the talks said.

The deal leaves SportsChannel L.A. without a major professional sports team from October-April, when the network already suffers a marked falloff in subscribers because of the ...

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