Tag: Sinclair
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Sinclair Now Owns The Fox Regional Sports Networks & Fox College Sports
A few weeks ago we learned that Sinclair and Disney had agreed to sell the Fox Regional Sports Networks to Sinclair. Now this $10.6 billion deal has been completed and Sinclair now owns the Fox RSNs. With this deal Sinclair will have ownership over the Fox Sports Arizona, Fox Sports Detroit, Fox Sports Florida, Fox…
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Sinclair Locals May Go Dark on AT&T’s DIRECTV, DIRECTV NOW, AT&T TV NOW, & U-Verse TV
Currently, AT&T has Nexstar and CBS-owned locals blacked out on DIRECTV, DIRECTV NOW (renamed AT&T TV NOW), and U-Verse TV. Soon you may have to add Sinclair-owned locals to that list as Sinclair, in their earnings call yesterday, warned that their contract is up sometime this quarter. AT&T reportedly has been pushing back on the…
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Sling TV & Dish Lose Fox RSNs
Earlier today Sling TV & Dish lost access to Fox Regional Sports Networks. This comes as talks with Dish/Sling TV and Disney broke down. Making this even more complicated is that the Fox RSN group has its own team negotiating. Dish sent Cord Cutters News the following statement about the blackouts: “DISH and Sling has…
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Sinclair Wants to Use Its TV Stations to Build a 5G Internet Network
Today Sinclair announced a plan to partner with One Media 3.0 (a subsidiary of Sinclair) and Saankhya Labs to build a network enabling 5G internet and OTT video. Sinclair’s hope here is that wireless providers will take advantage of this 5G network and its ATSC 3.0 TV stations to move video from streaming over 4G…
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The Free Sports Service Stadium Has Shutdown Its Roku Channel as It Pushes Other Ways to Watch on Roku
Stadium is a 24/7 free sports network that launched back in 2017. Roku was one of the first devices it supported but today Stadium removed its Roku Channel without warning. The good news is you can still watch Stadium but you will need to use services like Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, Stirr, or XUMO…
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Cord Cutting This Week – 2019 Cord Cutting Predictions, Pluto TV, Dish Suing IPTV Update, & More
Join Cord Cutters News every Saturday as we take a look back at some of the biggest Cord Cutting Stories from the past week. Now, remember these are my opinions on them not an in-depth look at each story. If you would like to learn more about each story check out the links below. (Also…
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FOX RSN Network Games May Be Coming to Sinclair’s Free Streaming Service STIRR
Today Disney held its 1st Quarter 2019 earnings call and was joined by Sinclair who will soon own the FOX Regional Sports Network. During that call, it was announced that Sinclair is looking at bringing some FOX RSN games and content to its free streaming service STIRR. When asked about FOX RSN and STIRR Sinclair…
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Sinclair Officially Buys Most Fox Regional Sports Networks
Yesterday it was reported that Sinclair would be buying most of the Fox Regional Sports Networks from Disney. Today that deal was made official as Sinclair spent $10.6 billion to buy the networks. It had been reported that Disney wanted $20 billion for the networks but Sinclair won with a bid of $10.6 billion showing…
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Sinclair Reportedly Has a Deal to Buy Most Fox Regional Sports Networks
As part of the deal to get Department of Justice approval for the Disney-Fox merger there was a requirement that the Fox regional sports networks would be sold off. When Disney closes on the sale of most of 21st Century Fox, they need to sell off the regional sports networks currently running under the Fox…
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Cord Cutting This Week #73 – DIRECTV NOW Loses Subscribers, PlayStation Vue Sale, Amazon Buying Fox Sports, YouTube TV, & More
Join Cord Cutters News every Saturday as we take a look back at some of the biggest Cord Cutting Stories from the past week. Now, remember these are my opinions on them not an in-depth look at each story. If you would like to learn more about each story check out the links below. (Also let…