Iowaggie said:
FanDuel Sports Networks is owned by Main Street Sports.
Per Front Office Sports, there is a report that it is teetering on the brink of financial calamity and is hoping to sell itself to DAZN.
https://frontofficesports.com/main-street-sports-dazn-regional-networks-broadcast-mlb-nba-nhl/
May be elsewhere, but FanDuel/Main Street Sports missed payment to Cardinals, and now it has has missed its January payments to their NBA teams, sources told SBJ today, as its delicate sale to DAZN and uncertain future has now trickled from MLB to pro basketball. All the NBA teams with Main Street are receiving reduced payments. Their NBA teams: the Hawks, Hornets, Cavaliers, Pistons, Pacers, Clippers, Grizzlies, Heat, Bucks, T'Wolves, Thunder, Magic and Spurs.
If the sale does not close as soon as this month, sources said Main Street will wind down and shutter its business at the conclusion of the NBA and NHL seasons, with a goal of not interrupting game broadcasts until then.
But team sources said there's no guarantee Main Street will have the cash or wherewithal to actually produce the games season-long, meaning those 13 NBA franchises would need emergency backup plans midway through the season.
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SBJ
The baseball part from last month....
Television income for nine MLB teams is "up in the air" as Main Street Sports Group is "attempting to re-negotiate what it pays 29 partner teams across MLB, NBA and NHL," according to Drellich& Woo of THE ATHLETIC. Sources said that Main Street lost approximately $200M "in 2025 across its portfolio." Drellich& Woo writes "regardless of whether Main Street survives or is ultimately sold or dissolved, the same outcomes are possible: Teams could wind up with less money than they expected, or with a new broadcast partner, or both." Sources said that Main Streetmissed a paymentto the Cardinals last month and the club is "now deliberating whether to return to FanDuel SN next season."
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