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Clippers making (yet) another return to KTLA...

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Announced on the Morning News today (Tuesday 9-20), the station and the Los Angeles Clippers made an agreement in which KTLA will televise 15 games (all four preseason and 11 regular-season contests [four road, seven home]) for the upcoming 2022-23 season. This marks the return of the Clips to KTLA for the first time since the end of the 2008-09 season, when it last shared the team's local broadcast rights with then-Fox Sports West & Prime Ticket for several seasons; the team went cable-exclusive starting with 2009-10 season.

This is also the first time since the 2011-12 season that either Los Angeles NBA team has aired a scheduled slate of games for local over-the-air TV since the Lakers left KCAL after that season. Also, KTLA in conjunction with the Clippers will handle their own production of the telecasts, and the games will be syndicated to other Nexstar-owned stations in Bakersfield (KGET/NBC), Fresno (KSEE/NBC), and San Diego (KSWB/Fox).
 
That is interesting to see Clippers on KTLA 5 given that for many years its either the RSN like Bally's, or ABC7 via NBA on ESPN/ABC's Coverage.
 
www.latimes.com

Clippers will play 11 regular-season games exclusively on KTLA in 2022-23

In addition to 11 regular-season Clippers games, KTLA also will exclusively air all four of the team's exhibition games.
www.latimes.com www.latimes.com

Part of the reason why the Clippers signed an agreement with KTLA (only for this season) was due to the team's broadcast deal with Bally Sports West/SoCal expiring over the summer. Unless Bally and the Clippers come to a new agreement this season (before or during), the only televised Clipper regular-season games on Southern California TV will be the eleven on KTLA, and the 32 designated national appearances across ESPN, NBA TV, and TNT (no ABC appearances this season).

Of the eleven KTLA broadcasts, all but two (Tuesday, October 25th at Oklahoma City, and Monday, October 31st vs. Houston) are Friday/Saturday/Sunday games, and none in February.
 
I would be surprised if Lakers rights holder Spectrum or Paramount's KCAL or Fox's KCOP makes a deal of course Sinclair screwed up by Google, Disney, Fubo, Dish. In San Diego we also have Bally Sports West and SD (the local version of SoCal without Angel baseball under Padres territory.) I do want an SD feed of LA based BSW since majority of NHL Kings and some Ducks and Clippers games are not carried. If MNTV shuts down and if KCAL or KCOP snaps up the regional LA sports deals they can expand regionally beyond LA/Palm Springs as well as access to more syndies including off-net sitcoms unless they follow the syndex rules and LA area news.
 
KTLA did partner with Spectrum which covers 80 percent of the Southern half of California for some Dodgers games but of course Cox and Frontier didnt carry SSNLA unlike the Lakers SSN
 
DarrenVision said:
I would be surprised if Lakers rights holder Spectrum or Paramount's KCAL or Fox's KCOP makes a deal of course Sinclair screwed up by Google, Disney, Fubo, Dish. In San Diego we also have Bally Sports West and SD (the local version of SoCal without Angel baseball under Padres territory.) I do want an SD feed of LA based BSW since majority of NHL Kings and some Ducks and Clippers games are not carried. If MNTV shuts down and if KCAL or KCOP snaps up the regional LA sports deals they can expand regionally beyond LA/Palm Springs as well as access to more syndies including off-net sitcoms unless they follow the syndex rules and LA area news.
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Wait Lakers rights on KCAL and KCOP interesting though but most likely Disney's KABC-TV is holding local rights to LA Lakers games via NBA broadcasts on ESPN/ABC along with spectrum.

www.sportspromedia.com

Lakers and Time Warner sign 20-year broadcast deal - SportsPro

The Los Angeles Lakers have signed a wide-ranging and lucrative broadcast distribution deal with Time Warner Cable, which will see Lakers games and content feature on two specially-launched regional sports networks.
www.sportspromedia.com www.sportspromedia.com
 
Never say never, but I don't see KCAL getting back into local live sports anytime soon. The only live sports on their air currently is the package of HBCU football games they just started airing a couple weeks ago--an agreement between the CBS O&Os and Allen Media, and whatever CBS sports coverage that may conflict with other programming on KCBS.

KCOP, of course, plays the same role with KTTV/Fox, plus the few Kings, Ducks, and Angels games they'll get due to game conflicts on the Bally locals. Since last year, they've been the TV home of Los Angeles FC for their non-national TV matches, but that's going away after this season, as MLS signed a new media rights deal with Apple TV for all televised matches, although they're still looking into bringing a traditional TV partner to complement the Apple TV coverage.

The other local non-NFL teams are all still locked long-term contracts with their respective rights holders for the foreseeable future. However, if the recent story about the NBA, NHL, and MLB all jointly looking to buyout Sinclair's share in Bally Sports holds to be true, it could change a lot in the way of how we've watched live sports in recent years. As it relates to the Clippers, Steve Ballmer has mentioned on a few occasions that he wanted to launch a Clippers streaming service, but I think it's a hell of risk even now. Bally's direct-to-consumer streaming service launches next Tuesday (September 26), in time for the NHL and NBA preseason schedules, and if all is a success, then the Clippers themselves can venture on their own.
 
I’m surprised Nexstar spent money on this. But, with the future of Bally in doubt, more teams need to consider this route. The RSN game is dying and the guarantee that people will spend $20 a month to stream games are slim to none. The cable broadcast bubble is on the verge of busting with a soon to be economic downturn.
 
Loverofradio said:
I’m surprised Nexstar spent money on this. But, with the future of Bally in doubt, more teams need to consider this route. The RSN game is dying and the guarantee that people will spend $20 a month to stream games are slim to none. The cable broadcast bubble is on the verge of busting with a soon to be economic downturn.
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the 2008 recession didnt hurt pay tv and 3 streamers even with the 2007 writers strike also didnt we witness a covid recession already since the 2020 lockdown
 

Bally Sports renews Deal with LA Clippers.

Bally Sports SoCal said it signed a multi-year extension of its media rights deal with the Los Angeles Clippers just weeks before the start of the regular season.


Bally Sports, which has televised Clippers games for 27 years, will produce, televise and stream 63 Clippers games during the regular season.

Bally Sports SoCal is one of the regional sports networks owned by debt-laden Diamond Sports, part of Sinclair Broadcast Group.
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