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Back to the RSN bubble burst, seems like Scripps' new Sports division is the biggest winner out there:
Quote:With the clock running on the grace period started when regional sports network operator Diamond Sports Group skipped a payment on its debt, “the phone has already been ringing off the hook” at Scripps Sports, according to E.W. Scripps CEO Adam Symson.
“I gotta say as we sit here today witnessing the implosion of the RSN business model . . . Scripps Sports has been getting a very warm reception in the marketplace,” Symson said on Scripps’s fourth-quarter earnings call Friday.
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(25-02-2023, 11:11 PM)sky303 Wrote: Here's the Apple TV Plus Score graphic for Major League Soccer
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These graphics aren't bad, actually, they are quite good and very much in-line with Apple's own minimalistic atheistic. Worth noting production and technical are being handled by NEP Studios from New York, Fort Lauderdale, Dallas and DC. Even the set looks quite Apple-style:
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The first reviews came in: they are generally favorable. Praise has been given in the sense of many of the selections for studio hosts and match commentators and the high technical and production quality of the live telecasts, but irks with studio shows (including the punditry going overboard in The View style) and some of the match commentary (which tries to imitate the high-energy and extremely euphoric Latin American commentary style popularised in the US by Andrés Cantor, instead of going for the more sober British styling) need to be addressed.
www.sportsvideo.org
www.digitaltrends.com
(26-02-2023, 11:02 AM)W. Knight Wrote: Back to the RSN bubble burst, seems like Scripps' new Sports division is the biggest winner out there:
Quote:With the clock running on the grace period started when regional sports network operator Diamond Sports Group skipped a payment on its debt, “the phone has already been ringing off the hook” at Scripps Sports, according to E.W. Scripps CEO Adam Symson.
“I gotta say as we sit here today witnessing the implosion of the RSN business model . . . Scripps Sports has been getting a very warm reception in the marketplace,” Symson said on Scripps’s fourth-quarter earnings call Friday.
(NextTV)
Here's a conversation from earlier this year with division CEO Brian Lawlor from TVNewsCheck, including a long discussion on the division's longterm plans and how it plans to leverage the Ion Television network and its Local Media offerings.
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Some of the rebooted XFL games are moving from FX to ESPN:
barrettsportsmedia.com
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(09-03-2023, 01:14 AM)W. Knight Wrote: Some of the rebooted XFL games are moving from FX to ESPN:
barrettsportsmedia.com
It feels like ESPN/Disney may be having difficulty in distributing XFL around the world, despite claiming that they are available in almost 200 countries.
The XFL 2.0, the first revival by Vince McMahon, benefited from the worldwide the reach of Disney's international channels, such as BT Sport (UK) and Fox Sports Asia (Southeast Asia), but its a different case now since Disney closed several of their linear channels as they pivot to Disney+.
It would have been nice if it was streamed live on Disney+ globally, but I wonder why don't they didn't do it.
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(11-02-2023, 12:00 AM)Medianext.MX Wrote: Bally Sports' parent company, Diamond Sports (majority-owned and operated by Sinclair, with Allen Media Group having a minority interest) is about to declare itself in administration. The immediate aftermath of it would be the start of the decline for the regional sports network model, which in the streaming era is becoming more obsolete. MLB could also take back the regional rights to 14 teams to re-sell it to competing RSNs or offer them through MLB Advanced Media.
An update on the Bally Sports saga: They're late in paying Arizona Diamondbacks the broadcast right fees, and chain reactions may start if they still can't pay up by 17/3:
Quote:Diamond already is late on one rights payment — to the Arizona Diamondbacks — according to several sources. Diamond carries Diamondbacks games on Bally Sports Arizona as part of a deal that largely is considered extremely favorable to the team and runs through 2035.
Diamond has a grace period where it can make the payment without penalty, but that grace period ends at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, March 16. If Diamond fails to make its payment by then, expect MLB to try to get the team’s linear television and digital rights back.
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(13-03-2023, 03:22 PM)W. Knight Wrote: (11-02-2023, 12:00 AM)Medianext.MX Wrote: Bally Sports' parent company, Diamond Sports (majority-owned and operated by Sinclair, with Allen Media Group having a minority interest) is about to declare itself in administration. The immediate aftermath of it would be the start of the decline for the regional sports network model, which in the streaming era is becoming more obsolete. MLB could also take back the regional rights to 14 teams to re-sell it to competing RSNs or offer them through MLB Advanced Media.
An update on the Bally Sports saga: They're late in paying Arizona Diamondbacks the broadcast right fees, and chain reactions may start if they still can't pay up by 17/3:
Quote:Diamond already is late on one rights payment — to the Arizona Diamondbacks — according to several sources. Diamond carries Diamondbacks games on Bally Sports Arizona as part of a deal that largely is considered extremely favorable to the team and runs through 2035.
Diamond has a grace period where it can make the payment without penalty, but that grace period ends at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, March 16. If Diamond fails to make its payment by then, expect MLB to try to get the team’s linear television and digital rights back.
(SBJ)
MLB Advanced Media is preparing for the worst, as it is studying to offer the matches not subject to the Fox or TBS contracts in each of the affected markets at a lower wholesale cost; these games will be produced by the MLB Network and will be offered to cable companies in each market. Also according to the New York Post's sports analyst Joe Kochman, Diamond Sports would declare bankruptcy that same day, and MLB is also trying to bring back the rights from the AT&T Sportsnet networks.
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Moving on to WBD, Houston Astros and Rockets might be aiming for AT&T Sportsnet Southwest:
Quote:A decade after losing millions of dollars from the collapse of Comcast SportsNet Houston, the Astros and Rockets are negotiating to get back into the regional sports network business as owners of AT&T SportsNet Southwest.
If negotiations proceed as planned, according to sources with knowledge of the talks, the teams will create a new business entity that will assume ownership of the network from Warner Bros. Discovery.
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The Houston channel, which will get a new name once the Astros and Rockets take ownership, will join team-owned RSNs in several markets, among them New York, Seattle and Boston, that thus far have avoided the worst of the financial woes enveloping Bally Sports and AT&T SportsNet.
Under the proposal, the Rockets and Astros would acquire AT&T SportsNet Southwest and with it the license to telecast their games. The Astros owned 60 percent and the Rockets 40 percent of their previous joint venture before bringing in Comcast as a partner in 2010 for the CSN Houston launch, but it was unclear if those percentages would continue for the new venture.
(Houston Chronicle)
UPDATE: Bally declares bankruptcy.
www.businesswire.com
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(15-03-2023, 12:03 AM)W. Knight Wrote: UPDATE: Bally declares bankruptcy.
www.businesswire.com
The MLB has published they will allow them to continue airing RSN games on Bally Sports to ensure continued availability of these matches; however, the MLB Advanced Media contingency plan is still onboard in case Bally decides to stop airing them.
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(15-03-2023, 12:24 AM)sky303 Wrote: Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Plus, and ESPN Plus (ESPN airing the game normally) is doing a special hockey game based off Disney's series "Big City Greens" It's a real hockey game , the normal broadcast is on ESPN and ESPN Plus, but they made a special version that's done in motion capture and adding Big City Greens Characters.
www.espn.com
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Here's the comparison of how ESPN and Disney Channel aired the game:
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Worth noting that the game was aired commercial-free on Disney Channel and Disney+, although with breaks during off-game time. When ESPN and Disney XD aired commercials, Disney Channel aired its normal underwriter sponsorship messages and channel promos, whilst Disney+ only aired a placeholder slide. During intermissions, instead of taking an animated version of ESPN's studio show, Disney Channel, Disney XD and Disney+ aired interviews with the show's cast and crew on their reactions of the novelty.
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To make the game "family-friendly", fist fighting was not replicated in the broadcast. Here's how the NHL worked on the game:
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www.sportingnews.com
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