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Bally Filing for Bankruptcy(Update: Bally No Longer Airing ACC Sports; New Update - ACC Raycom football and bball games to be broadcast on CW)

The Biffermeister said:
they're both total jackasses.
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Throw in Mad Dog, and you have quite the trio. But the talking head who is most consistently wrong about everything is Tannenbaum.

My favorite ESPN talking head show by far is PTI. I like Wilbon and Kornheiser (and Pablo when he's subbing) telling us to get off their lawns.
 
My wife even likes PTI and wonders what happened to it if she hasn’t seen me watch it in awhile.

There’s certainly something to old colleagues and friends bantering about sports. It’s why we like to do it.
 
It shouldn’t be understated just how much Stephen A is on TV and their website. He’s fucking everywhere and it’s been that way for a while. It must do something for somebody
 
Good for him. He's got Winston roots and he's managed to stand out in a world where everybody has sports takes. I find him annoying, but I only see him when I watch NBA on ESPN.
 
I've met him in person. It's not much different.
 
And I’m on Bally to watch UVA/BC until we start. Wonky sound. No picture at all. Just a black screen with the Bally “B” in the corner.
 
rawarr said:
It shouldn’t be understated just how much Stephen A is on TV and their website. He’s fucking everywhere and it’s been that way for a while. It must do something for somebody
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SAS is maybe the greatest source of memes in the history of mankind
 
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As Bally Sports Prepares for Bankruptcy, We Explain Why | Cord Cutters News

Last week it was reported that Sinclair was preparing to declare bankruptcy in their sports division. Back in 2019, Sinclair purchased Fox Regional Sports networks for $10.6 billion from Walt Disney. This sale was one of the final steps to allow Disney to complete its purchase of 21st Century...
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So what went wrong for Bally Sports?


Even before Sinclair bought Fox Sports RSNs many services had started to push back on RSNs, including DISH Network which said RSNs are some of the most expensive networks, but the least watched networks. Even growing numbers of streaming services like YouTube TV have dropped Bally Sports and other RSNs over the high cost and low viewership.


Now Sinclair is facing plans from major sports groups to offer in-market streaming. There have been rumors for some time now that MLB and the NBA have been looking at options to allow in-market streaming as viewership continues to drop. This could mean that MLB and NBA are looking to pull back rights from RSNs.


It seems that Sinclair bought Bally Sports at a very high price, just as the value of RNS started to drop. Add in 2020, when most sports did happen, and this left Sinclair without expected revenue.
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AT&T SportsNet (WBD) trying to give back the rights to their 3 RSNs.

With all of the cord-cutting, the RSN model doesn’t seem to work anymore.

Will be interesting to see what happens next.
 
SAS - love him or hate him. You still watch. That’s all he can ask for.
 
DeacsATS said:
AT&T SportsNet (WBD) trying to give back the rights to their 3 RSNs.

With all of the cord-cutting, the RSN model doesn’t seem to work anymore.

Will be interesting to see what happens next.
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It's not just the rights. AT&T wants to give the teams their respective regional streaming networks - the whole companies - in exchange for release from future rights payments.
 
What are other potential broadcast partners?
 
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