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Diamond Coughs Up Bally Sports Rights Payments to the Reds, Keeps Team From Launching Its Own RSN

Rendering the payment within the required 15-day grace period keeps the Cincinnati MLB franchise on Bally Sports Ohio

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Reds Ready to Go It Alone Sans Bally Sports Starting Saturday

If Sinclair's Diamond Sports Group doesn't pay MLB team by Friday, club is set to broadcast its own games starting Saturday vs. the White Sox on a new channel

Broadcasting & Cable

Suns, Mercury unveil local media deal with RSNs struggling

The NBA’s Phoenix Suns and WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury announced a new media rights deal that could pave the way for local sports broadcasts following the much-publicized struggles of regional sports networks

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Phoenix Suns Could Have Big ATSC 3.0 Distribution Plans, and Other Teams, Including the Utah Jazz, Might Soon Follow

Why we could be witnessing the emergence of an innovative post-RSN distribution scheme, pioneered by failed startup Evoca, that finally utilizes the vast potential of NextGen TV

Broadcasting & Cable

Bally Sports Parent Says NBA’s Suns Breached Contract With Gray Deal

Diamond Sports Group claims bankruptcy laws were violated

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Gray Signs Exclusive Deal to Broadcast Phoenix Suns, Mercury Games Next Season [Updated]

NBA, WNBA teams were formerly on the Diamond Sports RSN, which filed for bankruptcy in March

TV Tech

Bally Sports Bankruptcy: Judge Tells Diamond To Pay Half of What It Owes to MLB Clubs, Pending Restructure

Sinclair’s regional sports networks division failed to make TV rights payments to five Major League Baseball teams

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Bally Sports Bankruptcy: The Texas Rangers Become the Fifth MLB Team 'Held Hostage' By Diamond Sports Group

The Rangers join the Diamondbacks, Guardians, Reds and Twins as among teams that didn't receive their regional sports network rights checks for the 2023 season

Broadcasting & Cable

Bally Sports Bankruptcy: The Cincinnati Reds Become Latest MLB Team to Get Stiffed By Sinclair

The Reds could start streaming their own games as soon as May 6

Broadcasting & Cable

Top Considerations for the Future of Live Production

The cloud is the answer to delivering dynamic content efficiently, while giving production staff the flexibility they seek

TV Tech

Bally Sports Bankruptcy: MLB Tells Judge, Unlike Diamond's RSNs, We're 'Not Going Anywhere'

One month into Diamond Sports Group's bankruptcy restructuring, the zingers start to fly as lawyers haggle over tens of millions of dollars of missing TV rights payments

Broadcasting & Cable

Diamond North West issues update after bus hits bridge and rips off roof

The operator is working with Greater Manchester Police

Manchester Evening News

Bally Sports Bankruptcy: MLB Files Emergency Motion to Force Diamond to Either Pay the Twins and Guardians or Give Up the TV Rights

The Arizona Diamondbacks file their own separate but similar motion

Broadcasting & Cable

Bally Sports Looks Like It’s Bailing on the Cleveland Guardians and Minnesota Twins

Sinclair’s Diamond Sports Group misses the payment deadlines for more MLB teams

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The Guardian - US

Local broadcasters are crucial for MLB. Now many are in trouble

One of baseball’s largest broadcasters has filed for bankruptcy. But even with some revenue streams threatened, teams are rising in value

Tribune News Service

Opening day a go on Bally Sports San Diego after Diamond Sports makes Padres payment

SAN DIEGO — Bally Sports San Diego's parent company made its first rights fee payment to the Padres ahead of Wednesday's 11:59 p.m. deadline, assuring its broadcast of opening day against Colorado Rockies would go off without a hitch.

Zenger

Regional Sports Networks Are In Trouble But How Did They Get There?

Billions of dollars are owed and nut the money is not there to pay the bills

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Longtime Universal TV Exec Steve Rosenberg Out as President of Diamond Sports Group

Bankrupt operator of the Bally Sports regional sports networks sheds another Sinclair-appointed exec as it tries to get right with Major League Baseball

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Sinclair's Diamond Officially Misses $31 Million Diamondbacks Payment, Sets Up Tense Bally Sports Bankruptcy Reorg Negotiations With MLB

No, Diamond did not enter Chapter 11 armed with an agreed-upon restructuring plan that everyone is cool with

Tribune News Service

Tony Paul: What does TV broadcast future look like for Tigers, Wings and Pistons?

DETROIT — It's a crisis, to be sure. But the sky's not falling. At least, not yet.

Daily Mirror

Major sports broadcaster files for bankruptcy in huge blow for MLB, NBA, NHL

Diamond Sports Group has filed for bankruptcy just days before they were set to broadcast a large part of the Major League Baseball season, but they're committed to work though it

Tribune News Service

Sinclair Broadcast’s Diamond Sports Group, which airs games for 14 MLB teams, files for bankruptcy protection

Diamond Sports Group, a struggling subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group that owns regional sports networks, filed for a bankruptcy reorganization late Tuesday, burdened by more than $8 billion in debt.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bally Sports networks’ owner files for bankruptcy

Diamond Sports Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Diamond’s networks have the rights to 42 professional teams — 14 baseball, 16 NBA and 12 NHL. The Cubs and White Sox aren’t affected by the move.

The Independent UK

Bally Sports owner files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Diamond Sports Group, the largest owner of regional sports networks, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday

Los Angeles Times

Sinclair’s regional sports unit files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Sinclair Broadcast Group’s big bet on regional professional sports veered into Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday as the company’s unit that broadcasts local games filed for Chapter 11 protection.

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