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NBA's Phoenix Suns Clear to Make Move to Gray TV Broadcast Distribution After Bally Sports RSN Operator Diamond Drops Objection

Diamond's capitulation seems to point to MLB's Arizona Diamondbacks also departing and Bally Sports Arizona being shut down

Broadcasting & Cable

MLB and DirecTV Prepare for Bankrupt Diamond To Cut the Diamondbacks Loose From Bally Sports Arizona

Should the league set up a new channel for the team, DirecTV wants the bankruptcy court to relieve it from also having to pay for a bereft Bally Sports channel, too

Broadcasting & Cable

Sinclair's Diamond Sports Group Settles With Former President Steve Rosenberg, Keeps Him on As 'Consultant,' Structures Repayment of His $344K Golf Club Membership

The longtime Universal TV exec was fired from the bankrupt RSN distributor back in March

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MLB Commissioner Manfred: Clubs Have Received 94% of What's Owed to Them By Bankrupt Diamond Sports

He says the league will continue to 'backstop' teams should the Sinclair RSN subsidiary stop paying them

Broadcasting & Cable

MLB says teams have gotten 94% of money owed to them by Diamond Sports

Major League Baseball says teams have collected 94% of the money they have been owed by Diamond Sports

The Independent UK

Rob Manfred Ready to Block Diamondbacks’ Renegotiated Bally Sports Deal

‘New York Post’ reports that the MLB Commissioner won't let a $15 million-per-season pay cut and surrendered DTC rights reach first base. But league owners may not have his back

Broadcasting & Cable

Diamond Pays the Cleveland Guardians to Keep Them on Bally Sports Through July

Payment decides the local TV fate of the team only temporarily

Broadcasting & Cable

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Only Winners Get to Stay on Bally Sports? Diamond Makes Full Payment to the Division-Leading Minnesota Twins for the 2023 Baseball Season

The Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks are also leading their respective divisions and are also being kept around (for now), while the floundering Padres were told to pound sand. See a pattern here?

Broadcasting & Cable

Greater Manchester's new fleet of Bee Network yellow buses spotted on Leigh guided busway

It comes in preparation of the launch of the 'Bee Network' in Wigan and Bolton in September this year

Manchester Evening News

Diamond in Last-Minute Talks With MLB’s Diamondbacks to Keep the Team on Bally Sports Arizona

The two sides postpone a Thursday bankruptcy court hearing amid what they jointly describe as ‘positive discussions’

Broadcasting & Cable

Go North West is out as Stagecoach handed new Bee Network contract

Operators for buses have been chosen for the second wave of franchising

Manchester Evening News

Bankrupt Diamond Moves to Cut the MLB's Diamondbacks Loose From Bally Sports Arizona

Like the San Diego Padres, the club likely will soon be working with Major League Baseball to present their own local telecasts

Broadcasting & Cable

Adam Minter: Baseball fans should root for gambling’s expansion

The next time your favorite baseball team negotiates a nine-figure deal for an injury-prone pitcher, blame the oddsmakers. They’ll soon be the source of cash upon which baseball depends to sustain the sport’s lofty pay packages.

Tribune News Service

Diamond Pays the Texas Rangers, Keeps Them On Bally Sports Southwest

Rangers are among several MLB teams the bankrupt Sinclair subsidiary is deciding to keep or cut loose from its regional sports network

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Parent of Bally Sports makes on-time scheduled payment to Rangers for broadcast rights

There will be no short-term changes to the Rangers' broadcasting situation.

Broadcasting & Cable

Bally Sports Kicks Another Asset to the Curb: ACC Football and Basketball Games

Bankrupt Sinclair subsidiary Diamond Sports Group tells rights holder Raycom to find another distribution arrangement for the Atlantic Coast Conference

Tribune News Service

Bally Sports’ parent company expected to retain Rangers broadcasts, make rights payment

The next big day in the battle over the Rangers’ local TV rights is Thursday, but it may be a bit anti-climactic.

Daily Record

Former Hearts and Dunfermline striker joins Airdrieonians, as first summer signing for Championship unveiled

Nikolay Todorov has joined the Diamonds for next season

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Diamond Appears Ready to Cut More MLB Clubs Loose from Bally Sports as Hard Deadline To Pay the Texas Rangers Approaches

‘The debtors are in the process of determining whether to assume or reject one or more of the agreements,’ the Sinclair subsidiary tells the court

The Street

Why Your Favorite Team Could Take a Huge Financial Hit

A growing problem may put a number of teams in a difficult position and things could keep getting worse.

Multichannel News

Diamond Sports Ordered to Pay the Diamondbacks, Guardians, Rangers and Twins Their Full Bally Sports Rate

Bankruptcy court judge rules that despite changes to the market caused by cord-cutting, a deal is a deal. Sinclair subsidiary now has to decide to pay up or cut the teams loose like the Padres

The Independent UK

Judge: Diamond Sports must pay full value of contracts to Diamondbacks, Guardians, Twins, Rangers

A federal bankruptcy judge has ordered Diamond Sports to pay the full value of its media contracts to the Arizona Diamondbacks, Cleveland Guardians, Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers

Multichannel News

Bally Sports Plus Has 203,000 Subscribers, Only 55% of Diamond’s Goal

Key disclosure comes amid 'vitriolic' bankruptcy court exchange Wednesday between MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and Diamond Sports management

Broadcasting & Cable

Meet the New Boss: Major League Baseball Officially Launches Into the RSN Biz With 'MLB San Diego Padres'

Baseball sets up a new pay TV home for the Padres, as Twins, Guardians, Diamondbacks and Rangers petition in Texas bankruptcy court to cut them loose from Bally Sports, too

TV Tech

MLB Steps in to Ensure Fans Access to Padres Games After Diamond Stops Payments

Games will be streamed for free until June 5

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