Bally Sports may drop 3 more MLB teams in a deal to air 2024 season
https://cordcuttersnews.com/bally-sp...e-2024-season/
Bally Sports may drop 3 more MLB teams in a deal to air 2024 season
https://cordcuttersnews.com/bally-sp...e-2024-season/
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Bally Sports hopes to broadcast 2024 MLB season still alive admist bankruptcy saga
https://awfulannouncing.com/sinclair...ankruptcy.html
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Putting this bit of news here. Jeff Francoeur is going to cut back on his number of broadcasts. CJ Nitkowski hired as an analyst
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Happy for Jeff that he’s able to spend more time with his family. It’s the right decision.
As much as Chip brought the worst out of Jeff, Brandon Gaudin brought out the best. I really enjoyed their chemistry and felt that was easily the strongest broadcast the Braves have had since Skip and Pete.
This new potential Amazon angle is confusing.
This is what bravesnumberone is referring to.
Cord Cutter News: Bally Sports has a savior? Amazon reportedly looking at investing in the troubled sports network.
https://cordcuttersnews.com/bally-sp...ports-network/
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jpx7 (12-20-2023)
You can do stupid things when you have stupid moneyOriginally Posted by bravesnumberone
This Amazon bit is interesting. The source is The Wall Street Journal, but it's a subscription article. Been looking at other sources to see if I could possibly find out other items of interest. Obviously, a lot we do not know. The main questions about this:
How much would Amazon be investing?
How many games could be exclusive streaming?
Will the Bally Sports channel still exist?
Blackouts?
There is little doubt that streaming live sports is going to be a bigger thing in the future, just from a standpoint of how many cord cutters there are. MLB with the games streamed on Apple+ and Peacock. Several college football games were exclusive on Peacock, including a Notre Dame game. Even the NFL game between the Bills and Chargers Saturday night will only be on Peacock. Whether we want it or not, streaming live sports games will become bigger thing.
Amazon does want to get bigger into streaming sports. They are paying a good bit of cash for Thursday night games in the NFL. Again, don't know how much they could possibly be investing, but if they want to get more into live sports, this could be their avenue to do so. And if you're Bally/Diamond Sports Group, how could you not entertain this? Could be your way out of bankruptcy and stay in business.
This is worth watching.
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Hopefully Bally retains broadcast on tv, but Amazon gets all streaming rights to the games.
I wondered why Apple or Amazon didn't scoop up the FSNs when Bally bought them. I guess given that Bally ended up in BKY it makes sense.
jpx7 (12-20-2023)
Assuming blackouts end
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Bally only has streaming rights for a few teams. Braves aren’t one of them.
Assuming blackouts end
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Diamond, via its various Bally-branded regional sports networks, currently carries 11 MLB teams’ TV broadcasts: Los Angeles Angels, Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Guardians, Miami Marlins, Texas Rangers, Tampa Bay Rays, Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals and Detroit Tigers.
But Diamond is said to currently only carry the digital rights to five of those teams: the Tigers, Royals, Marlins, Brewers and Rays.
Therefore, even if Diamond and Amazon do wind up with a court-approved arrangement, Diamond could not stream games via Amazon for any of its other MLB teams beyond those five. Of course, other teams and MLB could negotiate with Diamond for expanded digital rights access, but MLB and Diamond have not seen eye to eye on the worth of MLB’s streaming rights.
There's going to have to be some negotiations to make all this work. Especially if Bally/DSG has designs on emerging from bankruptcy.
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Tentative deal would allow nine teams, Braves included , to be fully paid for 2024 season
https://www.nexttv.com/news/tentativ...ut-rate-offers
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jpx7 (12-20-2023)
Bally Sports will make a final contract offer to MLB teams this week
https://cordcuttersnews.com/bally-sp...ams-this-week/
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buck75 (12-22-2023)
DirecTV and Bally Sports headed to court over carriage fee dispute
https://cordcuttersnews.com/directv-...dispute/?amp=1
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MLB rejects Amazon's $150 million bid to prop up Bally Sports
https://www.nexttv.com/news/mlb-reje...-sports-report
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I'm gonna guess MLB would do business with Amazon, but not as a white knight for Bally. I think they'd prefer a quick but painful death for Bally in the next 2 1/2 months. And I'd be OK with that. I'm kind of disgusted with the way they've dropped teams in tranches as they became less profitable, hanging on to the rights until they're not profitable then including them in the bankruptcy action. It's chicken****. Take your medicine and let the teams move on and make their deals. In fact, maybe the teams should make their new deals and see what Bally wants to do about it. MLB has done everything but saw the plank they've stepped out on.
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