8 LA-area Members of Congress ask FCC to umpire baseball television fight

A group of California Democrats is calling on the Federal Communications Commission to help resolve a dispute between cable companies over showing Los Angeles Dodgers games on television.

Eight Los Angeles-area House lawmakers expressed their “growing concern” about the fight between Time Warner Cable and a slew of other TV companies that so far has left thousands of baseball fans in the dark. If the FCC does not come in to pinch hit, they warned, the fight could set a precedent "for vertically integrated companies to hold the consumer hostage to assert unfair market dominance.”