Bally Sports RSNs Are Reportedly Preparing For Bankruptcy

[lordodogg]

Lol! They still haven't pulled the plug on Bally Sports San Diego, although ever since it lost its only team, the Padres, to the MLB, it's literally now just a simulcast of Bally Sports SoCal (including the Clippers & Ducks games) with the only differences being national filler instead of infomercials in the morning and no Orange Co. SC USL soccer.

 

[Mr Tony]

AZ Coyotes games on 15-2 in Phoenix (Scripps owns the station). Subchannel of the ABC affiliate. Hopefully Scripps upgrades it to HD

Arizona Coyotes Breaks From Bally Sports, Will Televise Games Over the Air For Free Through Scripps | Cord Cutters News

The Arizona Coyotes are breaking from regional sports network Bally Sports and moving to television over the air with a new deal with Scripps Sports. The NHL team said on Thursday that it had struck a multi-year deal with Scripps to televise games locally. The games will air on Antenna TV on...

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[comfortably_numb]

AZ Coyotes games on 15-2 in Phoenix (Scripps owns the station). Subchannel of the ABC affiliate. Hopefully Scripps upgrades it to HD

Arizona Coyotes Breaks From Bally Sports, Will Televise Games Over the Air For Free Through Scripps | Cord Cutters News

The Arizona Coyotes are breaking from regional sports network Bally Sports and moving to television over the air with a new deal with Scripps Sports. The NHL team said on Thursday that it had struck a multi-year deal with Scripps to televise games locally. The games will air on Antenna TV on...

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Who will air the D-backs games?

 

[Mr Tony]

Who will air the D-backs games?

Unknown but they have almost 6 months to figure it out

 

[dishdude]

Bally’s Arizona has been shut down, not a surprise since the Hockey team was the only thing left on there.

No one here cares about hockey, that team might as well not exist. They're in an argument with the City of Glendale over the stadium, so they threatened to move to Tempe. A referendum went on the ballot to build them a stadium in Tempe (keep in mind the Glendale one isn't old) and it failed in spectacular fashion.

 

[lordodogg]

Who will air the D-backs games?

We already know the answer to that.

The MLB.

Or more specifically, airing blackout-free on MLB.TV (except for when they're playing on ESPN Sunday Night), and being distributed to providers within D-Backs territory. DirecTV Satellite has them on 686-3, Comcast has them on 1261, Cox has them on their various YurView channels in the territory, Spectrum has them on a channel in either the 300s or 400s depending on service area. Fubo and DirecTV Stream also have them as well.

 

[lordodogg]

Diamond demanding DirecTV pay for unaired Diamondbacks and Padres games

A new filing from Bally Sports RSN parent Diamond Sports claims DirecTV can't reduce payments for unaired Padres and Diamondbacks games.

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[Bruce]

Diamond demanding DirecTV pay for unaired Diamondbacks and Padres games

A new filing from Bally Sports RSN parent Diamond Sports claims DirecTV can't reduce payments for unaired Padres and Diamondbacks games.

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Considering how much Diamond needs DirecTV so to come out of bankruptcy, do they really want to piss DirecTV off.

Since DirecTV is losing 1.5-2 million subs a year , would they lose more if they got rid of Diamond?

Dish does not carry them, so all that is left is cable.

 

[comfortably_numb]

That suit won't hold up. Diamond/Bally broke their own contract by not airing Padres and Diamondback games.

 

[Bruce]

That suit won't hold up. Diamond/Bally broke their own contract by not airing Padres and Diamondback games.

I agree, but not to my point.

They (Diamond) need to be able to tell the judge, yes we have a agreement beyond next year ( when the contract between Diamond and DirecTV is up), if they keep peeving DirecTV off and they tell Diamond get bent, they have no way to be profitable without those per sub fees.

DirecTV knows they will carry the local teams no matter what, if the leagues put out something or if they are carried via local channels.

 

[savarese04]

Looks like that's all she wrote for Bally Arizona. Officially shut down.

 

[Bruce]

Looks like that's all she wrote for Bally Arizona. Officially shut down.

Soon to be the rest of them, I read they have burned thru 90% of the cash on hand, even if they make it out of bankruptcy, where are they going to get a fresh influx of money?

It is obvious that the per sub fees they are receiving now is not enough to sustain them or they would have more cash on hand.

 

[comfortably_numb]

Soon to be the rest of them

Good. I'll be excited to watch baseball on a new platform.

 

[savarese04]

Soon to be the rest of them, I read they have burned thru 90% of the cash on hand, even if they make it out of bankruptcy, where are they going to get a fresh influx of money?

It is obvious that the per sub fees they are receiving now is not enough to sustain them or they would have more cash on hand.

cash is definitely tight. I read earlier that they are cutting the amount of camera operators at Blues games to 2. if they're at the point of trying to save a thousand bucks a game, it's bad.

 

[lordodogg]

Looks like that's all she wrote for Bally Arizona. Officially shut down.

Are you saying they pulled the plug completely on the feed?

 

[Radioguy41]

DSG is under increasing pressure to throw in the towel. MLB wants an answer now as to whether DSG will fully commit to 2024 baseball broadcasts or not and if not MLB wants DSG to liquidate. Looks like it's pinch time for Bally Sports.

MLB issues an ultimatum to Diamond Sports

 

[Mr Tony]

Are you saying they pulled the plug completely on the feed?

Not yet. But soon

Bally Sports Shuts Down Its Arizona Channel | Cord Cutters News

Last week, Bally Sports Parent Company asked the judge overseeing its bankruptcy for permission not to pay the Arizona Coyotes contract. This will allow Bally Sports to end its TV contract with the company. This comes as Diamond Sports Group, the parent company of Bally Sports, says it would...

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[lordodogg]

Seeing reports froM Xfinity customers saying their BSAZ feed has already been cut pff.
Only a matter of time it looks like before other providers, including D*, follow suit as well

 

[lordodogg]

686 Bally Sports Arizona will shutdown entirely Saturday 10/21 at midnight Arizona Time/3am ET.

 

[lordodogg]

AZ Coyotes games on 15-2 in Phoenix (Scripps owns the station). Subchannel of the ABC affiliate. Hopefully Scripps upgrades it to HD

Arizona Coyotes Breaks From Bally Sports, Will Televise Games Over the Air For Free Through Scripps | Cord Cutters News

The Arizona Coyotes are breaking from regional sports network Bally Sports and moving to television over the air with a new deal with Scripps Sports. The NHL team said on Thursday that it had struck a multi-year deal with Scripps to televise games locally. The games will air on Antenna TV on...

cordcuttersnews.com

KNXV already has two HD signals, the main 15.1 ABC channel and 61.1 KASW CW ATSC 1.0 simulcast. So chances of upgrading 15.2 to HD are slim-to-none because of bandwidth limitations.