Dumping the NHL’s Coyotes and shuttering the channel: Diamond Ditches the NHL's 'Coyotes,' Pulls Plug on Bally Sports Arizona
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Bye Bye Bally Sports Arizona
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So who picks up the 'Yotes? Gray (KTVK/3 and KPHO/CBS 5) has enough on its plate with the Suns and Mercury, and the D'backs are up in the air after this season, unless they continue to let MLB produce their games. It comes down to Fox (KSAZ/Fox 10 and KUTP/45) or Scripps (KNXV/ABC 15 and KASW/61; they also operate KPPX/51). No way does Tegna (KPNX/NBC 12) get involved, being committed to NBC, and with no second station. The NHL season starts next week.
And the winner is ...KNXV 15.2 Antenna TV (whose programming will be pre-empted for the live games)
tvnewscheck.com
Arizona Coyotes, Scripps Sports Form Multi-Year Broadcast Partnership
The Arizona Coyotes and Scripps Sports have formed a multi-year agreement to televise all locally broadcast Coyotes games over the air to residents of Arizona and surrounding states within the team’s broadcast territory. The agreement allows The E.W. Scripps Co. to televise all non-nationally...
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This was explained in a thread on the Phoenix TV board. The CW affiliation agreement doesn't allow that many preemptions.
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/th...yotes-effective-october-1.767309/post-6657219
Also, I wouldn't be surprised if they put it on 15.2 so they can charge a higher fee to Pay TV companies not already carrying the channel if they want to carry it because of the Coyotes games.
And Bally Sports Arizona has now finally posted on their social media that they no longer cover local sports.
will cable companies be leaving a gap or switching to bally sports west
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Banned
Second one we can hope
There's nothing for them to carry from BS West, at least in most of Arizona. To give you an idea, the highlight of the broadcast week was a live CIF Southern Section high school football game. For some reason, Cox is still carrying this "zombie channel", probably to play out the string on a carriage agreement.
maybe they are bring california sports to arizona
they still have nascar and the other non-professional stuff
That's Purr-Feckly GREAT TO HEAR!!!
That doesn't justify paying a carriage fee, and it doesn't justify the fee they'd been getting with pro teams.
Remember: Bally is in a process of identifying assets that it can live without, especially loss-making ones like its Arizona operation. The hope is that it can lighten its load and become a profitable business in the Chapter 11 process.
To be clear, Bally Sports has NASCAR re-runs from last season. Estimated value: $0.00
FREE!?!?!?!?!
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