This morning, a report from Tom Friend in the Sports Business Journal puts the 2026 deal in doubt and it could be a major problem not just for the Reds, but for many teams in Major League Baseball, the NBA and the NHL. Main Street Sports Group, which now controls FanDuel Sports Network, missed a payment to the St. Louis Cardinals this month. And it seems like they’ve known they’re in trouble for a while, as reports have emerged in the past week that they are looking to sell a majority of the business to DAZN, a sports streaming service best known for its martial arts broadcasts but which carries many sports around the world.
However, Friend’s reporting indicates that if the deal is not completed by the end of the month, FanDuel Sports Network “will cease operations and dissolve operations at the end of this year’s NBA and NHL regular seasons.”
For teams in Major League Baseball, the timing of all this would at least give them time to figure things out before their first scheduled broadcast of games in spring training, let alone during the regular season. If FanDuel Sports Network were to go under, it seems very likely that given the lack of time and how things looked even a year ago, the Reds would almost certainly switch to having their games produced by MLB.tv. For now, it looks like we’re all back in the dark waiting to see what happens.
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