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Daniel Frankel

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

MLB's Arizona Diamondbacks channel

As expected on Tuesday, Sinclair regional sports networks subsidiary Diamond Sports Group tore up the remainder of its 20-year, $1.5 billion local TV rights deal with Major League Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks.

And as everyone also expected, MLB had a plan: Starting Tuesday night at 7:20 p.m. EST, when the Diamondbacks take on the Atlanta Braves at Atlanta's Truist Park, Diamondbacks games will be shown on a new channel, with carriage established via leading pay TV operators Comcast, Charter Communications, DirecTV, Cox and Fubo. 

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