FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 10 - Caught on Camera

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.

Tribune News Service · Mar 15, 2023

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.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 15, 2023

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred at core of Orioles’ and Nationals’ MASN arguments in New York’s highest court

BALTIMORE — The nearest baseball field to the New York Court of Appeals is a sandlot that will soon host a youth league, ages 4 to 6. But inside the Albany, N.Y., courthouse Tuesday, Big Baseball was taking place.

Tribune News Service · Mar 15, 2023

MLB Indicates Path for Potential End of Local Blackouts for Some Teams

The move may happen if the financially troubled parent company of Bally Regional Sports networks defaults its MLB broadcast rights.

Sports Illustrated · Feb 16, 2023

Manfred: MLB prepared for whatever happens with Diamond

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says the league is prepared for whatever happens with Diamond Sports Group after the financially troubled parent company of 19 Bally Sports regional networks skipped about $140 million in interest payments

The Independent UK · Feb 15, 2023

MLB makes extra-inning ‘ghost runner’ permanent

The rule was adopted as a pandemic measure for the 2020 season.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 13, 2023

Washington Nationals owner Ted Lerner dies at 97

Longtime Washington Nationals owner Ted Lerner has died at the age of 97

The Independent UK · Feb 13, 2023

MLB prepared to take over local TV broadcasts from Sinclair

About $1 billion of Major League Baseball’s revenue is at risk if a cable television company fails to make payments for local broadcasting rights to 14 teams, and the sport is preparing to take over telecasts

The Independent UK · Feb 10, 2023

Plan outlined for new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark, redevelopment

A new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark will be built as part of a massive redevelopment project in what was once a thriving Black neighborhood

The Independent UK · Jan 30, 2023

A's running out of time to find home in Oakland, Las Vegas

The Oakland Athletics have spent many years trying to get a new stadium

The Independent UK · Jan 26, 2023