November 11: The Angels’ deal with Diamond is a three-year contract, reports Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times.
November 9: The Angels reached a local broadcasting/streaming contract with Diamond Sports Group yesterday, reports Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register. The team will remain on the FanDuel Sports Network, the same organization that previously operated under the Bally Sports name. The Angels have not made an official announcement.
Terms of the deal remain unreported. For fans, the biggest development is the introduction of the streaming agreement. Fans in the Anaheim area can access Halos games on the FanDuel Sports app even if they don’t have a television provider that carries the network. The Cardinals reached a similar arrangement, which should dramatically reduce the number of blackouts, with Diamond earlier this week.
Diamond abandoned 11 of its 12 existing TV deals last month. They’ve renegotiated new terms with the Marlins, Cardinals and Angels. Diamond plans to honor its initial arrangement with the Braves. It’ll carry at least four teams next season. The Twins, Guardians and Brewers have announced that they’ll allow MLB to handle in-market broadcasts. The Rangers are still exploring options but do not intend to renegotiate with Diamond.
The Reds are taking that path as well. The Cincinnati franchise revealed in court on Friday that it was unable to come to terms with Diamond (link via Evan Drellich of the Athletic). The Reds gave up their stake in what had been a joint venture with Diamond covering FanDuel Sports Network Ohio. They’ll look for other arrangements. The Rays, Royals and Tigers remain in limbo and could still hammer out new contracts.
That all presupposes that Diamond continues to exist. The corporation still needs approval from the bankruptcy court to embark on a reorganization plan at all. The confirmation hearing is set for next Thursday and Friday. MLB and the Braves leveled formal objections yesterday, expressing their belief that Diamond has “a substantial likelihood” of going under again if the court approves reorganization. In the event the court overrules those objections, the Angels will be back on FanDuel Sports Network for at least another season.
Great News LAA should be big players In free agent class this off season
Soto Welcome to LA not the Dodgers but the guy wearing the Halo.
Great Job Arte
Logistics, not Logic, gotcha
Fantastical logistics never actually delivers
I feel like you are going to be very disappointed
I don’t know the Log Guy, but my guess is that some of you need to Google the word “sarcasm”. XD
In reality they end up with a couple of journeymen bullpen arms and an outfielder who hits 20 home runs while batting .220
Suckers!
“FanDuel Sports Network.” Ick. I really hope this sports betting bubble bursts at some point, but I’m not holding my breath.
Gambling has been around since 2000-3000 B.C.
I’m well aware. I’m not expecting it to go away completely, but it is self-evidence that it has been promoted incessantly in recent years in away it wasn’t not that long ago. That’s what I’m talking about.
For sure. I’m sick of it constantly being in my face everywhere. More and more states have legalized it. The demand has always existed as lots of Americans were using overseas sites and illegal bookmakers.
The Government can tax it as the apps rat out your winnings. That’s why more states are legalizing it.
The irony of Pete Rose being denied enshrinment in the HoF for something MLB, and every sports league is now partnered with borders on absurdity…
Yeah. I’m not against betting being legal or anything like that but it’s pretty off-putting that the league is so in bed with them. I always thought it was pretty gross that Premier League clubs with their massive wealth needed to put obscure Chinese betting sites on the fronts of their jerseys. I believe they’ve banned that for future seasons.
It’s one thing to put the overlay billboards everywhere and another thing to broadcast their local streams through betting apps.
Irony: except for DFS, online sports betting is illegal in California. Go Halos.
The only question is when will the betting sites these leagues partner with exert pressure on them for specific outcomes? Some would argue that the NBA and NFL are already there.
When they get the latency out so you can bet real time. It’s funny how I get CBS sports and MLB alerts a moment before it happens on my TV.
There has to be a 7 second delay on TV broadcasts to give them time to filter out things like curse words or people flashing privates on TV.
Nice. So I can drop cable now and just get the app.
I could be wrong, but just be forewarned that for the Braves (if it’s anything like LAA), even if you subscribe to the Bally Sports app, it still requires you to have a TV provider (or cable service) to view games, which isn’t the games for other teams they carry in my area (NBA Hawks, NBA Grizzlies, etc.) — forcing those to have a cable subscription. They may be different for other Bally teams, but trying to watch a MLB game befuddles a team of Russian hackers, let alone your everyday fan that still catches Matlock before an early bird special.
Yikes. Thanks.
“Fans in the Anaheim area can access Halos games on the FanDuel Sports app even if they don’t have a television provider that carries the network. ” No cable TV provider required.
Please pay the $19.99 a month to do so as they are not giving it away free
Only if you’re in the Anaheim “area”
And when is Diamond going to bankrupt again? It seems absurd.
From what MLB and the Braves said in their objection to Diamond Sports plan, not sure that they are going to even be allowed to reorganize. They don’t have enough revenue to repay their debts even if they are allowed to cut those that are not profitable and renegotiate others. MLB said that they didn’t believe that Diamond Sports could survive until 2026 even with the influx of cash from the FanDuel naming rights.
None of the creditors holding Diamond Sports $8.7 billion in debt have agreed to have them pay less than full value in the bankruptcy proceedings, only to restructure when the loans would come due. Without those creditors writing off a significant portion of that debt, Diamond Sports current level of revenue could only cover the interest due, not pay off the principal in a timely manner.
I found this quote from the Braves objection to the reorganization telling, especially since they were the only one of the teams that DSG wanted to continue to broadcast with their deal as is.
“The Debtors’ inability to demonstrate plan feasibility also calls into question whether the Debtors can demonstrate adequate assurance of future performance to assume the Braves’ executory contract.”
So many things like that in the filing Web. MLB said something about Diamond Sports only entering into their plan 20 documents, most of which were media reports about the bankruptcy, and none of them include the actual financial plan needed to pay of their debt.
Thank you for thedetail. It seems hopeless.
So now we get to watch all 110 loses in living color! Big yay!!!
The Angels have never lost 100 games… your team can’t say that.
What team would be “my team”?
Any team. Unless you root for the Angels, the team you root for has lost 100 games.
True. The Angel’s organization is the only one that has never lost 100 games. The Rockies and the Angels were the last 2 organizations to accomplish this feat of futility… The Rockies lost 101 games this year and the Angles lost 99. I am sure the Angels get some sort of prize for being the last team.
Every team has sucked at one point.
And the hyperbole of 110 losses deserved a response.
Few Angel fans have been harder on this team than me. It’s a mess. It’s not close.
Isn’t someone asking us about another 90 loss season enough. Why exaggerate? Only as ass would dig in the knife in that manner.
It’s a sad day when the best you got for being one of the worst franchises in the league is “well we haven’t lost 100 games YET” lol
You’re going to grow up to be an angry young man some day with that demeanor. And yes, the Angels are a terrible franchise, and I predict them to have 100+ loses this year as well as their surpassing the White Sox as the worst team in the game of baseball. You can put it on the booooooarddddddd, YES!!!!
It’s a sad day for your pathetic life when you have nothing better to do than troll.
Quoting a song written by Mac Davis and sung by the King.
Good for you. There is not an original thought in your head.
Of course there is not any thought in your head.
It ilicited not one, but two replies. We’ve got ourselves an angry young man today! But, neat that you looked up the lyrics and who wrote them as well. Proud ah ya. Put it on the boooooooaaaaard, YES, YES!!!
…and his mama cried…
Seriously, what kind of loser hangs out and talks trash about a team they don’t support?
Why you hanging out in the ghetto?
Most kind of losers. That’s what kind. And his mama cried…
You! This is what so many of us have been saying!
You just come here to trash the Angels.
I realized I was logged out when I saw your comment show up because I generally mute you.
But Halo, of all the trolls, you are the worst.
So even the Braves media income isn’t guaranteed yet. I’d be nervous if I was a free agent not named Soto. There’s too many teams with uncertain income.
A lot of these teams are going to clamp up. Free agency is going to be long for some of these guys…
Why would Soto or any other top tier free agent be nervous? They all are still going to get more than enough to live on. They’re going to be fine.
I did say not named Soto. No, they won’t be worried about money but it may be far less than they expected
I’m glad these teams are cutting ties with cable, but having to stream the in-market games through betting apps is gross. This is how they’re going to gain young fans and grow the game? A kid who wants to watch the Angels or Cardinals needs to have their dad’s betting app password to watch their local club?
What I’ve saved cutting cable pays for all my streaming and the NFL and MLB network packages and I see every game in every market. Should look into it and see if you can swing the same for the same cost. It’s 1000% better than cable.
I’m glad they Reds won’t count on them. Hope the new deal is no blackouts on MLB.TV, as they ALL should and split evenly.
Well, perfect time to take on another bloated contract! We will give you….. DJL and Stanton?
Hey now, Stanton will actually show up for the playoffs and he’s good for 30 bombs next session. DJ is worth about a sack of balls on the other hand.
He did. I honestly don’t even care how bad or how injured he is during the season, as long as he shows like that in the postseason.
Do we have to see odds on the screen during games now? Ughhhhh.
MLB was in Anaheim laying out an entirely new set of fiber cable for broadcasts this past weekend. I don’t think they believe that Diamond Sports is going to survive the bankruptcy. .
Diamond Sports: we will give you all brand new batting practice balls not to show your games
Arte Moreno: we’ll take gently used balls and you have yourself a deal!!!
Who is intentionally watching Angels games?
On Thursday 11/14 the bankruptcy judge will hold a hearing to decide if DSG will be allowed to go forward with their plan. MLB and the Braves, as well as 3 of the other creditors, have filed objections to the plan saying that they don’t think DSG has the money to pay the Braves or any team they renegotiated deals with and that they have not presented actual financial documents that would show they could. I believe that MLB and the Braves will win out on this one. DSG may be forced into dissolution.