Diamond Sports Group (Bally’s) said in court that it plans to continue broadcasting ONE of their remaining teams it has with MLB in 2025: the Atlanta Braves. Other teams will either have to negotiate a new deal with Diamond or go elsewhere.
They had 12 teams in 2024… Cleveland, Texas, and Minnesota were on 1-year deals. Anaheim, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Detroit, Kansas City, Miami, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Tampa Bay had contracts for 2025.
Diamond is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy and has the ability to assume and reject contracts as part of that process, which has to ultimately be court approved.
MLB’s lawyer Jim Bromley said they were “sandbagged” by this news and were not prepared to respond fully.
“We have no information about what is being done. We’ve had no opportunity to review and now we’re in front of the court and being asked to make our comments.”
Evan Drellich on X (formerly Twitter): “BREAKING: Diamond says in court it plans to continue broadcasting one – just one – of the remaining teams it has with MLB: the Atlanta Braves.The 11 other MLB teams (and 9 still under contract) with Diamond will either have to negotiate a new deal w/Diamond – or go elsewhere. / X”
BREAKING: Diamond says in court it plans to continue broadcasting one – just one – of the remaining teams it has with MLB: the Atlanta Braves.The 11 other MLB teams (and 9 still under contract) with Diamond will either have to negotiate a new deal w/Diamond – or go elsewhere.
