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Amazon buying a minority stake in Diamond Sports is a rare win for fansThe only streaming platform fans want a sporting event aired on is one in which they already have a subscription. That’s why, on the surface, Amazon buying a minority stake in Diamond Sports is a rare win for the people who make these franchises profitable. (No, not the owners. The fans.) The move a...

Texas Rangers may end rights deal with Diamond Sports Group [Updated]A huge portion of local sports broadcasting is in jeopardy after Diamond Sports Group, responsible for nearly half of local MLB, NHL, and NBA games under the Bally Sports brand, filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday in Texas. The conglomerates’ financial troubles stem from expensive broadcast r...

Bally Sports possibly plunges baseball toward caring about what happens on the fieldMLB’s biggest problem in the last few years is that too many teams have not really cared about whether their teams win or lose. They’ll say all the right things, and maybe make just enough signings or trades to fool their idiotic portion of their fanbases into buying tickets or for a new Carlton Fis...

Welcome to ROH is Jericho?

There was this internet pipe dream back in 2007. This little company with a cult independent following called Ring of Honor finally became popular enough to appear on television. It happened to be in the form of a taped pay-per-view called Respect is Earned, a live event held in New York City in May...

Does Tony Khan have a second gear for Ring Of Honor?

It’s pretty standard now, bordering on canon, that Tony Khan will spit out a great pay-per-view whenever he needs to. And now it’s with multiple companies. Last Saturday, it was Ring of Honor’s turn, with “Death Before Dishonor.” And by any measure, it was a banger. Not perfect — rarely is a show ev...

AEW boss Tony Khan buys legendary independent promotion Ring of Honor

The fingerprints of those who elevated Ring of Honor from a tiny independent promotion designed to help save a fledgling video distribution company to cult-favorite national phenomenon have their smudge inked all over professional wrestling’s landscape. Look at a random ROH show lineup from 2009-11....

Owners’ miserly proposals might have something to do with their RSN cash going POOF!

We haven’t exactly entered baseball’s nuclear winter yet. That’s still about two weeks away, with the Dec. 1st deadline of the current CBA expiring and everyone expecting a lockout the next day. While some “connected” writers have claimed that “sources” have told them that negotiations so far are a ...

Sleazy Right-Wing Propaganda Mill Buys Up More Sports Networks

Thanks in large part to federal regulations meant to prevent media consolidation, Sinclair Broadcast Group, the Donald Trump-favored media company that infamously forced its local news anchors to read mindless Trumpian statements about the dangers of “fake news” on-air, has ended up further consolid...

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Indie Wrestler David Starr's Ring Of Honor Promo Trashes Sinclair, Pisses Off All The Right People

The local television behemoth Sinclair Broadcast Group is infamous for its extreme right-wing politics and dedication to seeding those beliefs into its local news broadcasts. Ring of Honor, the wrestling promotion that Sinclair owns, has somehow avoided being stained by its parent company’s broader ...

by David Bixenspan|

|Thu Mar 21 2019

Unavoidable Organization With Amoral Right-Wing Ownership Announces Partnership With Sinclair

The Chicago Cubs announced today that they will be launching a new regional sports network, beginning in 2020. For the new venture, called Marquee Sports Network, the Ricketts family has partnered with a real gem of a broadcasting company: Sinclair. Yeah, that Sinclair....

by Samer Kalaf|

|Wed Feb 13 2019

ROH Wrestling's Biggest Show Ever Is In The Books. So Now What?

Numerous stories played out in parallel during WrestleMania weekend in New Orleans, and the fact that there was more going on than any one person could process was, as always, a big part of the fun. Few of those stories had more history or more potential future significance than the one that unfolde...

by David Bixenspan|

|Mon Apr 16 2018

One of the many effects of our publishing the notorious Sinclair video has been that the broadcasting company has now reneged on a $25,000 pledge to the National Press Photographers Association. You can contribute to make up that difference here. ...

by Timothy Burke|

|Wed Apr 11 2018

How I Made A Dumb Video Making Fun Of Sinclair Broadcasting And Somehow Started A Media War

This past weekend, the media watchdog group Allied Progress began airing a message on Sinclair Broadcast Group stations urging viewers to contact the FCC and ask the agency to stop Sinclair’s consolidation of local news. This is something that the FCC could do, if it wanted—Sinclair is in the proces...

by Timothy Burke|

|Mon Apr 09 2018

How Local News Stations Are Rebelling Against Their Sinclair Overlords

The workers at Sinclair-owned local news stations want you to know something: They are at least as pissed off as you’d expect them to be about being forced to bow to their fear-mongering corporate overlords, who make them do things like repeat Trumpisms about the fake news media and trade on their ...

by Laura Wagner|

|Thu Apr 05 2018

How America's Largest Local TV Owner Turned Its News Anchors Into Soldiers In Trump's War On The Media

Earlier this month, CNN’s Brian Stelter broke the news that Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner or operator of nearly 200 television stations in the U.S., would be forcing its news anchors to record a promo about “the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country.” The sc...

by Timothy Burke|

|Fri Feb 08 2019

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