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Did the Other Skate Just Drop? NHL Tells Bankruptcy Court It Might Want to Ice Its Bally Sports Deals

After the judge gave Diamond Sports Group another 80 days to come up with a restructuring plan, hockey told the court it might seek 'injunctive relief' if the whole mess can't be sorted out soon

Broadcasting & Cable

Broadcasters Nexstar, Sinclair, Gray and Scripps in Talks With the NBA and NHL, Also Looking to Step in on Abandoned RSN Deals

With bankrupt Diamond Sports Group possibly ditching unprofitable NBA and NHL agreements, and WBD exiting the regional sports channels biz, Disney/ESPN, Apple, Amazon and Google have also kicked the tires on acquiring local TV rights

Broadcasting & Cable

Bally Sports Bankruptcy: Disney, Apple, Amazon and Google Reportedly Ready to Pounce on Any and All Abandoned NBA Local TV Deals

As the restructuring of Sinclair's Diamond Sports enters its sixth godforsaken month, somewhere, a lonely, anonymous source -- a lawyer or PR guy maybe? -- works the craven tools of the national press

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Bally Sports Bankruptcy: Summer MLB Drama Gives Way to Fall Pay TV Carriage Wars

Diamond Sports Group must renew distribution agreements covering nearly half of U.S. pay TV homes

Broadcasting & Cable

Bally Sports Bankruptcy Gets Bloodier: Diamond Files Suit Against Sinclair and JP Morgan, Tries to Claw Back $1 Billion Preferred Equity Repayment

Diamond's largely stiffed secondary creditors are asking the bankruptcy court why they've been left holding the bag while JP Morgan was made whole

Broadcasting & Cable

How does MLB take over a local broadcast? Even with months of planning, it's a mad scramble

Major League Baseball's takeover of San Diego Padres' broadcasts involved months of planning, a playbook MLB is following this week with Arizona Diamondbacks' telecasts

The Independent UK

MLB Sets Up New Diamondbacks Channel, Claims Reach Has Expanded by 4.7 Million Homes vs. Bally Sports Arizona

New channel launches Tuesday on Comcast, Charter, DirecTV, Cox, and Fubo, as well as MLB.TV streaming. It's unclear as to what's happening with Bally Sports Arizona

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MLB takes over Diamondbacks broadcasts Tuesday from Diamond Sports

Major League Baseball will take over broadcasts of Arizona Diamondbacks games after a federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday granted a motion for Diamond Sports to reject its rights agreement

The Independent UK

Diamond Boots the Arizona Diamondbacks Out of the Bankrupt Bally Sports Kingdom ... for Real This Time

Houston court will rule on Diamond Sports Group's latest motion to tear up its regional sports networks contract with yet another MLB team on Tuesday

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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

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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

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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

Broadcasting & Cable

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

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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

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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

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?

Manchester Evening News

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

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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’

Manchester Evening News

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

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

Broadcasting & Cable

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

Tribune News Service

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.

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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

Tribune News Service

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.

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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

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