[Clemente Almanza] Report: Bally Sports might axe Thunder broadcast ahead of 2024-25 season (via @The_ThunderWire)
Report: Bally Sports might axe Thunder broadcast ahead of 2024-25 season (via @The_ThunderWire):https://t.co/KSs3jbMp1d
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) August 3, 2024
by chexmixho
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The whole Bally Sports debacle might finally be coming to an end. Maybe the solution is just to simply put all the games on a free over the air antenna local channel like they did for those select Friday games last year?
Here’s the actual article this one is pulling it’s information from: [https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/08/01/diamond-sports-group-rsn-nba-teams?publicationSource=morningbuzz&issue=7a83e6e35c5048aa94aedc84ce0f84df](https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/08/01/diamond-sports-group-rsn-nba-teams?publicationSource=morningbuzz&issue=7a83e6e35c5048aa94aedc84ce0f84df)
I love the NBA, but the TV situation is super irritating. I don’t live in OK anymore but I watch the Thunder on League Pass and the Bally product is bad. It’d be nice to see a local network get the rights.
Also with League Pass on any given night, because of my location, I am blacked out from three games because of TV market rights – which basically means I miss a good chunk of the Thunder’s east coast trip. I just wish League Pass and local markets would coordinate so blackouts were no longer a thing.
Bally Sports is a debacle.
Even as an avid Thunder fan, I cancelled my subscription with Bally’s a couple months into last season because their service was awful.
Good riddance!
It’s $20 a month to watch Royals, Thunder, and Blues games with Bally sports right now in the KC area. If they take the Thunder off? Are they seriously going to force $20/mo to watch just Royals and Blues games? It’s already pretty steep. Everyone wanted cable to die back when streaming came out and now it costs more to keep up with all these services than it did just to have cable lol.
Surely some other network would want to pick-up the contract and broadcast these games, right?