It’s officially official! The Arizona Diamondbacks have become the latest team to depart from the Bally Sports family of regional sports networks (RSNs). Judge Christopher Lopez approved Bally Sports’ parent company Diamond Sports Group’s motion in U.S. bankruptcy court on Tuesday to surrender the Diamondback’s broadcasting rights.
Major League Baseball will now distribute the team’s games on local cable channels. The changeover will begin immediately; fans will be able to find games on these channels starting with the club’s Tuesday, July 18 game against the Atlanta Braves, which starts at 7:20 p.m. Et.
Check out the full list of new Arizona Diamondbacks broadcasters available below.
Platform Channels Cox Yurview Channels: Phoenix – Channel 4 / Tucson – Channel 7 Directv Channel 686 - 3 Fubo Available Spectrum/Charter Channel 304 Xfinity/Comcast Channel 1261 Mediacom Channels 159 & 764 Orbitel Channels 225 & 925 Optimum/Suddenlink Channel 41 – Bullhead City, Flagstaff, Lake Havasu City, Parker Channel 46 & 246 – Payson, Sedona, Strawberry...
Major League Baseball will now distribute the team’s games on local cable channels. The changeover will begin immediately; fans will be able to find games on these channels starting with the club’s Tuesday, July 18 game against the Atlanta Braves, which starts at 7:20 p.m. Et.
Check out the full list of new Arizona Diamondbacks broadcasters available below.
Platform Channels Cox Yurview Channels: Phoenix – Channel 4 / Tucson – Channel 7 Directv Channel 686 - 3 Fubo Available Spectrum/Charter Channel 304 Xfinity/Comcast Channel 1261 Mediacom Channels 159 & 764 Orbitel Channels 225 & 925 Optimum/Suddenlink Channel 41 – Bullhead City, Flagstaff, Lake Havasu City, Parker Channel 46 & 246 – Payson, Sedona, Strawberry...
- 7/18/2023
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
The Arizona Diamondbacks are departing from Bally Sports Arizona. John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal reports that while a U.S. bankruptcy court hearing to officially settle the matter of the Diamondbacks’ rights was pushed from Monday, July 17 to Tuesday, July 18, the team was not able to reach a new agreement with Bally Sports’ parent company Diamond Sports Group (Dsg). When the hearing does take place, it is expected that Dsg will file to reject the team’s contract.
MLB will then take over broadcasts of the team’s games, as it did in May for the San Diego Padres. The league filed a statement with bankruptcy court Judge Christopher Lopez last week declaring that it was ready to do so, having made arrangements with local cable providers to ensure no interruptions in Diamondbacks broadcasts. It’s also likely that MLB will make Diamondbacks games available to stream locally...
MLB will then take over broadcasts of the team’s games, as it did in May for the San Diego Padres. The league filed a statement with bankruptcy court Judge Christopher Lopez last week declaring that it was ready to do so, having made arrangements with local cable providers to ensure no interruptions in Diamondbacks broadcasts. It’s also likely that MLB will make Diamondbacks games available to stream locally...
- 7/18/2023
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
Arizona Diamondbacks play-by-play man Steve Berthiaume has thrown a knuckleball into the situation between the team and its current local broadcasting partner Bally Sports Arizona. According to the Arizona Republic, Berthiaume said during a broadcast of the team’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday, July 16 that a bankruptcy court hearing on Monday, July 17 “may result in new channels for the games to be seen.”
There’s no new information in those words on their face; the Diamondbacks were to be dropped from Bally Sports Arizona altogether in late June, when Bally Sports Arizona’s parent company Diamond Sports Group (Dsg) filed a petition in bankruptcy court to surrender its contract with the club as part of ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. But negotiations between the team and company prompted Diamond to ask for a stay until July 17 so it could potentially work out a new deal with the Arizona baseball club,...
There’s no new information in those words on their face; the Diamondbacks were to be dropped from Bally Sports Arizona altogether in late June, when Bally Sports Arizona’s parent company Diamond Sports Group (Dsg) filed a petition in bankruptcy court to surrender its contract with the club as part of ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. But negotiations between the team and company prompted Diamond to ask for a stay until July 17 so it could potentially work out a new deal with the Arizona baseball club,...
- 7/17/2023
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
ESPN has fired sportscaster Adnan Virk after an internal investigation determined he had leaked confidential company information to the press, a person familiar with the matter told TheWrap.
“Adnan Virk no longer works at ESPN,” a company rep said in response to an emailed inquiry on Monday.
According to a source familiar with the situation, the network discovered that Virk shared company intel after he was uncooperative with an internal leak investigation. On Friday, he was fired and escorted out of ESPN’s company offices in Bristol, Conn.
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ESPN declined to comment on what information Virk had leaked or the details of its internal probe. The story was first reported in the New York Post. Virk also declined to comment on the matter.
The Canadian broadcaster had been a rising star at the network, where he worked...
“Adnan Virk no longer works at ESPN,” a company rep said in response to an emailed inquiry on Monday.
According to a source familiar with the situation, the network discovered that Virk shared company intel after he was uncooperative with an internal leak investigation. On Friday, he was fired and escorted out of ESPN’s company offices in Bristol, Conn.
Also Read: Former ESPN Anchor Jemele Hill to Host New Spotify Podcast 'Unbothered'
ESPN declined to comment on what information Virk had leaked or the details of its internal probe. The story was first reported in the New York Post. Virk also declined to comment on the matter.
The Canadian broadcaster had been a rising star at the network, where he worked...
- 2/4/2019
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Any excuse to dress up as a Wookiee and a storm trooper on national television is a good excuse, so in the spirit of the Arizona Diamondbacks’ random “Star Wars” day on Sunday, Fox Sports announcers Steve Berthiaume and Bob Brenly did just that. See video: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Battle Over Who's the World's Biggest Star Wars Fan As Berthiaume put it before the start of the home team's third game in a series against the Chicago Cubs, the Force was with the team, as they won 3-2. See video: J.J. Abrams Reveals the ‘Star Wars: Episode VII...
- 7/21/2014
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
New York -- Espn has scaled back slightly on its plans for a daylong live "SportsCenter" block.
The Bristol, Conn.-based sports powerhouse told employees Wednesday that it would produce six hours of live "SportsCenter" a day during the daytime. The previous plan, announced at Espn's upfront presentation in May in New York, was for nine hours Monday-Friday beginning at 6 a.m. Et.
But Espn executives realized, a month before the show was to debut, that the first three hours of "SportsCenter" between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. wouldn't be that much of a change from the last live "SportsCenter" from the night before that repeats in the mornings currently.
"It felt like a better use of our resources" to concentrate on the 9 a.m.-3 p.m. block, an Espn spokesman told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday. He pointed out that there would still be 30 new hours of live "SportsCenter" every week.
Hannah Storm and Josh Elliott will continue to anchor the 9 a.m.-noon block, as Robert Flores and Chris McKendry will be the co-anchors of the later block. The scheduled early anchors, Linda Cohn and Steve Berthiaume, will be reassigned to other jobs at Espn. No one, either in front of the camera or behind it, will lose their jobs.
The Bristol, Conn.-based sports powerhouse told employees Wednesday that it would produce six hours of live "SportsCenter" a day during the daytime. The previous plan, announced at Espn's upfront presentation in May in New York, was for nine hours Monday-Friday beginning at 6 a.m. Et.
But Espn executives realized, a month before the show was to debut, that the first three hours of "SportsCenter" between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. wouldn't be that much of a change from the last live "SportsCenter" from the night before that repeats in the mornings currently.
"It felt like a better use of our resources" to concentrate on the 9 a.m.-3 p.m. block, an Espn spokesman told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday. He pointed out that there would still be 30 new hours of live "SportsCenter" every week.
Hannah Storm and Josh Elliott will continue to anchor the 9 a.m.-noon block, as Robert Flores and Chris McKendry will be the co-anchors of the later block. The scheduled early anchors, Linda Cohn and Steve Berthiaume, will be reassigned to other jobs at Espn. No one, either in front of the camera or behind it, will lose their jobs.
- 7/9/2008
- by By Paul J. Gough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Less than two months before "SportsCenter" goes live in the weekday mornings, ESPN has filled out its anchoring teams.
In May, ESPN said that former NBC Sports and CBS "Early Show" anchor Hannah Storm would join the network and anchor the 9 a.m.-noon edition of "SportsCenter". She now will be joined by Josh Elliott in that time period.
Taking the early (6 a.m.-9 a.m.) shift will be Linda Cohn and Steve Berthiaume, with Chris McKendry and Robert Flores co-anchoring the noon-3 p.m. "SportsCenter". Storm will be off Fridays in the fall and will anchor Sunday Morning "SportsCenter" on NFL days. She'll be replaced on those days by Sage Steele, who also will do updates every 20 minutes from 6 a.m. and noon weekdays.
That will launch Aug. 11, the opening week of the Beijing Olympics. Since January 1996, "SportsCenter" has been in repeats in the mornings on ESPN.
In May, ESPN said that former NBC Sports and CBS "Early Show" anchor Hannah Storm would join the network and anchor the 9 a.m.-noon edition of "SportsCenter". She now will be joined by Josh Elliott in that time period.
Taking the early (6 a.m.-9 a.m.) shift will be Linda Cohn and Steve Berthiaume, with Chris McKendry and Robert Flores co-anchoring the noon-3 p.m. "SportsCenter". Storm will be off Fridays in the fall and will anchor Sunday Morning "SportsCenter" on NFL days. She'll be replaced on those days by Sage Steele, who also will do updates every 20 minutes from 6 a.m. and noon weekdays.
That will launch Aug. 11, the opening week of the Beijing Olympics. Since January 1996, "SportsCenter" has been in repeats in the mornings on ESPN.
- 6/20/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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