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FanDuel Sports Network Offering 3-Month Free Trial With $5 Bet

FanDuel is offering its players a 3-month free trial of streaming for local NBA and NHL games via FanDuel Sports Network to celebrate its...

SportsCasting

Amazon Prime Video scores big on its sports offerings and fans are happy

Amazon closes a multi-year deal with a major sports network to increase its offerings on Prime Video.

The Street

Diamond Sports Group will offer single-game pricing to stream NBA and NHL games starting next month

The nation’s largest owner of regional sports networks will offer single-game pricing for NBA and NHL games beginning next month

The Independent UK

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Reds to Sell Stake in the Former Bally Sports Ohio Network for Exactly $1

Cincinnati is now a free agent on the television market.

Sports Illustrated

Bally Sports Regional Networks Aiming to Rebrand Under New Naming Rights Agreement

America's largest sportsbook will lend its name to the troubled channels.

Sports Illustrated

MLB will air local games for Guardians, Brewers and Twins beginning next season

Major League Baseball has announced it will produce and distribute local broadcasts for the Cleveland Guardians, Milwaukee Brewers and Minnesota Twins next year

The Independent UK

Four MLB Teams Drop Television Partnership With Bally Sports for 2025 Season

More baseball fans will be able to watch their local team next summer.

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NHL’s Anaheim Ducks Join the Bally Sports Exodus

Surprise exit to local broadcast leaves bankrupt RSN Diamond Sports Group with just eight remaining NHL teams

Broadcasting & Cable

Anaheim Ducks will move local broadcasts from Bally to over-the-air channel and streaming

The Anaheim Ducks are the latest NHL team to move their local game broadcasts from a regional sports network to a combination of direct to consumer streaming and local broadcasts

The Independent UK

NBA's Mavs, Pels, Pistons, Grizzlies and Thunder Appear To Be on the Bally Sports Chopping Block

If bankrupt Diamond Sports Group avoids liquidation, a purging of its NBA team partners appears to be at hand

Multichannel News

Why We Can’t Be Bothered With TCA Anymore

Also in this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we ponder AMC’s long, slow march to irrelevance, the power of bundles, and Mario Gabelli’s quest to put Shari Redstone in a fishbowl

Broadcasting & Cable

Bally Sports Meltdown Accelerates: NHL’s Dallas Stars Set To Follow Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers Out of the RSN

Bally’s bankrupt operator, Diamond Sports Group, asks court to terminate its deal with the Stars one day after the Panthers announce their own plans to bolt their RSN

Multichannel News

Altice USA Drops Bally Sports RSNs From Its Optimum Cable TV Service

In the latest distribution blow for bankrupt operator Diamond Sports Group, 11 of its channels are blacked out on a pay TV service reaching 2 million subscribers

Multichannel News

Minnesota Senator Urges Comcast to ‘Return to the Negotiation Table’ With Diamond Sports Group

‘My constituents are furious’ that they can’t watch Twins games, Tina Smith tells Brian Roberts

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Diamond Catching Most of the Viewer Heat in the 18 Markets in Which Its Bally Sports Channels Are Blacked Out on Comcast

While consumers tend to blame pay TV distributors first in these kinds of impasses, the focus of fan ire seems to be the bankrupt programmer this time around

TV Tech

Diamond Sports' RSNs Go Dark On Comcast Systems

Comcast and Diamond Sports Group were unable to reach a new distribution agreement

Multichannel News

Comcast and Diamond Sports Group Carriage Talks Devolve Into Blackout

Diamond's against-all-odds escape from bankruptcy liquidation hits a major snag after its Bally Sports carriage deal with Comcast expires and the two sides fail to agree on another temporary extension

Multichannel News

Diamond Sports Could Emerge From Bankruptcy on June 18

With a judge approving the company’s disclosure agreement and setting up a June confirmation hearing, Diamond lawyer says the company has the, er, rubber to the road on exiting Chapter 11, while insisting a just-approved November deadline extension is merely a ‘prophylactic motion’

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Will Broadcast’s Local Sports Comeback Stand Up?

Stations have snapped up pro-sports rights from struggling RSNs, but could find themselves edged out by direct-to-consumer streamers

TV Tech

Diamond Sports Group Renews Charter Distribution Deal

Under the agreement, Spectrum TV Select Plus customers will also be able to stream Diamond’s RSN content by authenticating with their subscription credentials

Broadcasting & Cable

Diamond Survives Bankruptcy, Signs a Multiyear Carriage Renewal With Top Pay TV Operator Charter

Regional sports network operator prepares to exit bankruptcy, secures carriage in cable operator’s premium ‘Spectrum TV Select Plus’ tier

Broadcasting & Cable

Everything You Need To Know About the Bally Sports Bankruptcy

We detail the long struggle, as bankrupt subsidiary Diamond Sports Group fights to keep broadcaster Sinclair's big, ambitious, specularly unsuccessful regional sports networks play out of liquidation

Cinemablend

Amazon Prime Just Took Another Big Leap Into Streaming Live Sports

Amazon Prime just set up a huge deal that will expand its coverage of live sports for millions across the country.

TV Tech

Sinclair, Amazon Ink Deal with Diamond Sports Group to Keep Bally RSN Operating

Sinclair will pay Diamond $495M to settle lawsuit, Amazon will invest in Diamond and host Bally RSN apps on Prime Video

The Independent UK

Local broadcasts for 11 NHL teams will remain on Bally Sports after agreement

The NHL and Diamond Sports Group, the largest owner of regional sports networks, have reached an agreement that will keep local broadcasts for 11 teams on Bally Sports through the end of this season

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