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Steaming Companies and Station Groups In Talks to Take Over Local NBA and NHL Rights

Scripps and the Las Vegas Golden Knights seem very happy with their partnership one month in.

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Scripps Sports Distribution More Than Doubles Vegas Golden Knights’ TV Ratings From Last Season

Ratings for the first five locally broadcast NHL Vegas Golden Knights games are up 135% compared to all major cable telecasts last season, after the team moved its distribution to Scripps Sports, the company says. The reigning NHL Stanley Cup champions are drawing an average 8.5 household rating...
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CaliRadioFan said:
Scripps and the Las Vegas Golden Knights seem very happy with their partnership one month in.

tvnewscheck.com

Scripps Sports Distribution More Than Doubles Vegas Golden Knights’ TV Ratings From Last Season

Ratings for the first five locally broadcast NHL Vegas Golden Knights games are up 135% compared to all major cable telecasts last season, after the team moved its distribution to Scripps Sports, the company says. The reigning NHL Stanley Cup champions are drawing an average 8.5 household rating...
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Whos selling the advertising? Sports leagues left broadcast tv a decade ago to make more money off tv deals. so if that money is gone from the RSNs, how is money being made on this deal?
 
Scripps is doing everything. Production and sales. Many sponsors CGI'd onto the ice. One of their major contributors is a Hotel/Casino a way down south on the I-15 to the 215 in Highland, CA!
 
Looks like as part of Diamond Sports new Amazon deal, the new NBA and NHL Deals that allow them to air some games over-the-air and move to expiration date to the end of this season are void because they never really went into effect. So the old agreements with NBA and NHL teams will stand for the remainder of their length of those agreements.
the Cooperation Agreement Order shall not have become effective, the terms of the NBA Term Sheet and the NHL Term Sheet conditioned on the effectiveness of the Cooperation Agreement Order shall not have gone into effect (including that none of the NBA or NHL team rights agreements shall be subject to early termination on account of the NBA Term Sheet or the NHL Term Sheet, respectively), and the Company Parties shall not have entered into any other similar arrangement or transaction with any of the Sports Leagues
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Loverofradio said:
Why did Amazon do this?
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More content for Prime. From the linked article:

Amazon is set to enter a commercial arrangement to provide access to Diamond’s services via Prime Video, making the latter “Diamond’s primary partner through which customers will be able to purchase direct-to-consumer (DTC) access to stream local Diamond channels,” the company said. “Customers will be able to access all local DTC content, including live MLB, NBA and NHL games, and pre- and post-game programming, for the teams for which Diamond retains DTC rights, through Prime Video Channels.” Details regarding pricing and availability will be announced at a later date.
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My question is doesn't this create a problem with the MLB, who also have streaming rights to their games? I don't know about the NBA, and I think the NHL rights are exclusively with ESPN+.

From what I read, Amazon will be a far more productive partner for Diamond than Sinclair ever was.
 
TheBigA said:
More content for Prime. From the linked article:



My question is doesn't this create a problem with the MLB, who also have streaming rights to their games? I don't know about the NBA, and I think the NHL rights are exclusively with ESPN+.

From what I read, Amazon will be a far more productive partner for Diamond than Sinclair ever was.
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Sorry I could’ve worded it better, it was a sarcastic “why”? I forgot. Which company just had layoffs in Prime Video, including the person responsible for getting sports rights?Not to mention, they’ll have more reported layoffs in 2024? I’m happy a lot of jobs will be saved as a result. But, how do we know this won’t be a disaster either financially?
 
Loverofradio said:
Which company just had layoffs in Prime Video, including the person responsible for getting sports rights?Not to mention, they’ll have more reported layoffs in 2024? I’m happy a lot of jobs will be saved as a result. But, how do we know this won’t be a disaster either financially?
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Like any investment, no one knows if it will pay off. No one knows if jobs will be saved. That's the risk a company takes in making an investment.
 
TheBigA said:
More content for Prime. From the linked article:



My question is doesn't this create a problem with the MLB, who also have streaming rights to their games? I don't know about the NBA, and I think the NHL rights are exclusively with ESPN+.

From what I read, Amazon will be a far more productive partner for Diamond than Sinclair ever was.
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The MLB has streaming rights with Apple Plus, but only for two Friday night games each week and Apple could exit the deal after last year or this year: MLB Deals With Apple And NBC Sports Are Worth A Combined $115 Million Annually
 
powergate92 said:
Looks like as part of Diamond Sports new Amazon deal, the new NBA and NHL Deals that allow them to air some games over-the-air and move to expiration date to the end of this season are void because they never really went into effect. So the old agreements with NBA and NHL teams will stand for the remainder of their length of those agreements.

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As long as the networks stay on DirecTV I will be happy.
 
radiofan2023 said:
The MLB has streaming rights with Apple Plus, but only for two Friday night games each week and Apple could exit the deal after last year or this year: MLB Deals With Apple And NBC Sports Are Worth A Combined $115 Million Annually
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Any idea how this will affect the number of games available to subscribers of MLB TV? Last year, subscribers (at about $150 a year) got all out-of-market regular season games except the ESPN Sunday night games, the Apple+ games, and the Peacock Sunday morning/early afternoon games. Will even more games be trimmed from MLB's own streaming service in the upcoming season?

Also, for the past several years, one game a day has been made available to ESPN+ subscribers, again excluding in-market viewers. Is that arrangement continuing or not?
 
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That's what I'm asking. Amazon basically did an end-around MLB (and ESPN+) by making a deal with Diamond. The question is can Diamond make that deal? Because if so, it really hurts the MLB package.
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I suppose all will be revealed in MLB's annual renewal notice to subscribers, which usually arrives just before the spring exhibition games start. MLB wouldn't have the nerve to keep its subscription price the same, or increase it, if the package isn't going to include all the Diamond-affiliated teams, would it? I can tell you right now, as huge a baseball fan as I am, I'd have a hard time paying MLB for one set of teams and Amazon for another, even if a feed will likely be available on both services when Diamond teams play non-Diamond teams.

What a mess.
 
powergate92 said:
Some updates regarding the MLB from today's Diamond Sports hearing.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1747676160459211075
https://twitter.com/x/status/1747677563063804387
https://twitter.com/x/status/1747678194629525782
https://twitter.com/x/status/1747681528270721064
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Maybe the Rangers can go back to the old OTA deal they had with LIN/SSG (KXAS & KXTX) Broadcasting. I know that NBCUniversal/Comcast own KXTX and KXAS, but KTXA is available or maybe even KDAF if Nexstar Media Group wants to get into local sports.
 
Could we wind up seeing Diamond vs. MLB in court right into the beginning of the season, with streaming on all platforms in limbo? The idea that MLB somehow might be prevented from streaming its own games on its own platform boggles the mind.
 
TheBigA said:
Any broadcast deal for baseball means pre-empting network prime time programming.
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That's why you have digital signals. Plus when KXAS had the Rangers, they preempted NBC programming or moved it to KXAS 39. How do i know this....I worked for the Rangers at that time.
 


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