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Daniel Frankel

Comcast and Diamond Sports Group Carriage Talks Devolve Into Blackout

A general view of the Comcast Center in Philadelphia.

After a spree of odds-defying dealmaking that resulted in what had seemed be an unlikely but imminent emergence from bankruptcy restructuring, Diamond Sports Group's luck may have run out. 

Comcast released a statement early evening Tuesday indicating negotiations on a new long-term carriage agreement have not been successful so far, and that it expects the Bally Sports regional channels Diamond manages to come off its video platform when the calendar month of April — and its current deal with Diamond — ends at midnight. Networks and teams affected by the outage in Xfinity markets include the Atlanta Braves on Bally Sports South, the Minnesota Twins on Bally Sports North and the Detroit Tigers on Bally Sports Detroit.

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