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Sinclair Reports 4Q Loss On Diamond Sports Settlement

Core ad revenues up 2%

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Diamond Cheats Death -- Court Approvals Mean NBA and NHL Teams Will Stay on Bally Sports Channels After This Season

Monday's bankruptcy court approval of a $450 million debtor-in-possession package and a $495 million Sinclair settlement void contingency deals that would have set the leagues free from Bally Sports this spring

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MLB Lawyer: Without Baseball, ‘There’s No Diamond Sports’

While a Houston bankruptcy court approved a plan to move forward through the 2024 season, MLB seizes the upper hand regarding the Bally Sports RSNs’ longer-term future

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MLB Commish Manfred Wants to Launch a League-Owned DTC Streaming Package in 2025

Dismissing Bally Sports' big Amazon-fueled restructuring plan, Manfred told MLB owners this week that all he needs are the digital rights to 14 teams to make it happen

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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

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Diamond and MLB Mediate Deals to Keep the Rangers, Twins and Guardians on Bally Sports Through the 2024 Season

However, Friday's bankruptcy court motions say little about DTC rights, and clarity on Diamond and Bally's longer term future still awaits

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How Many Signups Did Peacock Just Get? Will Rob Manfred Really End Up Playing Ball Again with Bally? Is ‘Better Call Saul’ Really Chopped Liver? And Does the ‘L.A. Times’ Have Anyone Left to Lay Off?

In our latest ‘Next Text’ we once again plunge headlong into digital disruption, never-ending beefs, ridiculous snubs … and the media machinations of unqualified men

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Amazon partners with Diamond Sports; OKC Thunder games could broadcast on Prime

Amazon partners with Diamond Sports; future OKC Thunder games could broadcast on Prime.

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Bankrupt Sinclair Subsidiary Diamond Finally Announces Restructuring Plan, With $115 Million Assist From Amazon ... But Will MLB, the NBA and the NHL Stick Around?

'We will refrain from offering our congratulations,' an Major League Baseball lawyer told a beat reporter

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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

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Game On: Sinclair, Diamond Sports, Amazon in Deal To Keep Regional Sports Networks in Business

Sinclair to pay $495 million to settle lawsuits; Amazon to invest $115 million in Bally Sports parent

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MLB Rejects Amazon’s $150 Million Bid to Prop Up Bally Sports (Report)

Commissioner Rob Manfred reportedly wants to negotiate his league's local digital rights directly with Amazon

Multichannel News

Diamond and NHL Forge Deal to Skate Through Current Season

But after the NHL regular season ends in April, local TV and streaming rights will revert back to the league

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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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Tentative Deal Between Diamond Sports Group and MLB Reportedly Pays 9 Teams Their Full Bally Sports Bill, While the Twins, Guardians and Rangers Get Take-It-or-Leave-It Cut-Rate Offers

Major League Baseball has reportedly also floated a provision that would have it seize Diamond's 20% stake in the YES Network if the bankrupt RSN subsidiary reneged on the terms of the agreement

Broadcasting & Cable

Genius Move? Amazon Reportedly in Talks to Bail Out Bankrupt Bally Sports RSNs

Amazon may be close to acquiring a huge chunk of live NBA, MLB and NHL sports rights from a suitor that doesn't have a lot of leverage

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Amid Diamond's Apparent Detente With MLB, Twins Return to Bally Sports Remains Doubtful

With the pro baseball club exploring alternative local sports arrangements, a source close to Bally Sports North said he's not 'overly optimistic' the team will return to the RSN

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Diamond and MLB Make Peace? They Mediate a Framework to Keep 11 Pro Baseball Teams on Bally Sports Channels Through 2024

Lawyers for the Texas Rangers said they might be willing to take a haircut on local TV rights in order to keep Bally Sports Southwest around for one more season

AAP

Bruce earns netball's Liz Ellis Diamond for second time

Defender Courtney Bruce has won netball's Liz Ellis Diamond for a second year but the awards were boycotted by Super netballers due to their pay dispute.

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Sinclair Lawyer: Bankrupt Diamond Sports Group ‘Is Now Going To Shut Down’

Outside counsel David Seligman said the subsidiary’s plan to keep its Bally Sports channels going for another year will inevitably lead to liquidation, not a rebirth

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Minnesota Twins Set to Cut Payroll Amid Almost Certain Departure From Bankrupt Bally Sports RSN

The MLB team’s contract with operator Diamond Sports Group has expired, and the club is weighing other local TV options

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Gray Reports $53 Million Loss for Third Quarter

Diamond Sports bankruptcy causes $43 million charge against earnings

Broadcasting & Cable

Bankrupt Diamond Reaches Deal to Keep NBA Teams on Bally Sports Through This Season (But Beyond That? Who Knows?)

RSN and DTC rights revert back to the league after the 2023-24 NBA season; similar NHL agreement is 'pending,' Diamond says

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Sinclair Is Reportedly Offering $850 Million to Buy Back Diamond Sports Group Out of Bankruptcy

Sinclair is being sued by its former subsidiary for $1.5 billion

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