Frontier airlines may show World Series games

The
Colorado Rockies are in the World Series. Denver-based Frontier Airlines is
negotiating with DirecTV for permission to show the World Series on its
flights.

While
Frontier Airlines offers satellite TV on flights, its contract does include
Fox, so it is negotiating with DirecTV to get permission to show the World
Series if the
Rockies are participants,
airline spokesman Joe Hodas said Monday. The
Rockies
clinched a World Series berth late Monday evening by sweeping the Arizona
Diamondbacks in the NLCS.

Frontier
also needs to make sure it has the rights to air live television.

“We
are trying very hard to get that squared away,” Hodas said.

DirecTV
spokesman Robert Mercer declined comment Monday. Major League Baseball wasn’t
sure whether its permission was needed.

JetBlue
Airways Corp. will offer the World Series free of charge to passengers through
its current DirecTV contract, company spokesman Bryan Baldwin said.

Frontier
shows the Super Bowl on its flights every year.