With Warner Bros. Discovery looking to abandon its limited presence in the declining regional sports networks business, the NBA’s Utah Jazz, which had called WBD's AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain home, have been looking to develop what the team calls a “hybrid model” for its next distribution agreement.
They seem to have found it in a somewhat ironic place. Next season, the Jazz will locally broadcast all of their games not picked up by national networks ESPN, ABC and TNT free and over the air on channel 14, aka KJZZ Salt Lake City. That station is owned by a company on the leading edge of dismantling the regional sports networks business, Sinclair Broadcast Group.
