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Diamond Sports Group to Drop All MLB Contracts Except Atlanta Braves

David Satin
David covers the biggest news stories, live events, premieres, and informational pieces for The Streamable. Before joining TS, he wrote extensively for Screen Rant and has years of experience writing about the entertainment and streaming industries. He's a Broncos fan, streams on his Toshiba Fire TV, and his favorites include "Andor," "Rings of Power," and "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds."
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David Satin

Diamond Sports Group appears poised to grant one of Major League Baseball’s fondest wishes. MLB has been adamant that it needs more clarity from Diamond regarding plans to continue broadcasting baseball clubs in the 2025 season and beyond, and on Wednesday that clarity was granted. A new report indicates that Diamond has informed the court in which its bankruptcy proceedings are playing out that it intends to drop all MLB contracts but one in its attempts to reorganize and emerge from Chapter 11 protections.

Key Details:

  • Only the Atlanta Braves will be retained by Diamond going forward.
  • The plan to drop MLB rights will likely not be met with resistance by baseball executives.
  • Diamond is hoping to schedule a confirmation hearing for its reorganization plan in November.

The news that Diamond was willing to drop its MLB contracts was first broken by Sportico reporter Anthony Crupi, who posted on X (the social media site formerly called Twitter) that the broadcaster had declared its intentions to move on from most MLB clubs in bankruptcy court. It means that, presumably starting in 2025 Bally Sports-branded regional sports networks will no longer carry teams like the Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals.

The only team that will be retained by Diamond is the Atlanta Braves, who play on Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast. The team does not play on the Bally Sports streaming service Bally Sports+.

The news that Bally Sports channels will no longer carry their partner MLB teams is likely a source of great relief to baseball officials. In early September, MLB attorney James Bromley said that the league reserved the right to object to Diamond’s bankruptcy reorganization plan if it didn’t get clarity on the company’s intentions for 2025 and beyond soon.

“We are not months and months away from next year. We are there today,” Bromley said. “If the debtors are unable or unwilling to provide [rights fees for 2025], it will be necessary to find replacement broadcasting for them. To do that on any other timetable than this fall, it’s going to create substantial costs.”

Now, MLB has the clarity it has been waiting for. It still leaves the league with plenty of questions; there are now 11 teams who were partnered with a Bally Sports channel in 2024 that will need to find new broadcasting arrangements. It will bear watching to see how many partner with local over-the-air channels as some NBA and NHL teams have done, and what happens with their in-market streaming rights.

For Diamond, the decision could mean that it has removed the biggest hurdle in winning MLB’s approval for its bankruptcy reorganization plan. The company reportedly wants to have creditors vote on the plan at a confirmation hearing in November, and with baseball officials mollified the path appears clear. Diamond has long-term deals in place with the NBA and NHL, and distribution agreements with top providers like Comcast, Charter and DIRECTV.

David Satin
David covers the biggest news stories, live events, premieres, and informational pieces for The Streamable. Before joining TS, he wrote extensively for Screen Rant and has years of experience writing about the entertainment and streaming industries. He's a Broncos fan, streams on his Toshiba Fire TV, and his favorites include "Andor," "Rings of Power," and "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds."
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