How to watch the Guardians on TV

[sportscoach]

Cleveland suburbs.

Cincinnati shouldn't be blacked out there...

 

[DCTribefan]

Cincinnati shouldn't be blacked out there...

That’s what I thought until it was.

 

[eChameleon]

 

[AZ_]

Major League Baseball filed an emergency motion in the Diamond Sports bankruptcy asking the court to compel the regional sports channel company to pay the Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Guardians rights payments that are overdue. Here’s what you need to know:

Diamond’s Bally Sports Networks, which filed for Chapter 11 on March 15, televises 14 MLB teams, and three have not been paid including the Arizona Diamondbacks.

MLB is seeking an order by April 13 that would force Diamond to either pay the Twins and Guardians, or terminate the contracts so the teams could take over the broadcasts.

Bally Sports North and Bally Sports Great Lakes have continued to televise the Twins and Guardians, respectively, despite not paying them.

What the motion said
“Just one day prior to the April 1 due date for the first 2023 installment of the fees due to the Clubs, the Debtor RSNs informed the Guardians and the Twins that the Debtor RSNs would not be making the required payments,” MLB’s lawyers wrote in its motion (the Debtor RSNs refers to Bally Sports). “The Debtor RSNs made this decision even though they continue to use the Clubs’ valuable intellectual property every day. By continuing to broadcast Guardians and Twins games, they generate postpetition revenue, yet boldly refuse to pay the Clubs.”

Diamond also has not paid the Diamondbacks, but that occurred just prior to the commencement of the bankruptcy, so the team instead is listed as a creditor on the Chapter 11 petition.

Several teams noted in the motion that they reserved their rights to join in the motion if Diamond also fails to pay them in the future. These teams are the Diamondbacks, Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers, Tampa Rays and Texas Rangers.

In the motion, MLB’s counsel wrote the clubs are prepared to take over the broadcasts if needed.

“With the 2023 season underway, the Clubs are navigating a complicated and fragile situation without certainty in their ability to consistently provide games for the millions of fans who follow professional baseball through daily televised broadcasts,” MLB’s lawyers wrote.

MLB’s motion was redacted and did not publicly disclose how much money the teams are due. But a source close to Diamond said the Guardians’ annual fee is $55 million and the Twins is $42 million.

 

[DCTribefan]

MLB Seeking Overdue Rights Payments From Diamond For Twins/Guardians Broadcasts

Major League Baseball has filed a motion in the ongoing Diamond Sports Bankruptcy proceedings, reports Daniel Kaplan of the Athletic. …

www.mlbtraderumors.com

 

[Mott the Hoople]

T-Mobile will make MLB.TV FREE to it's customers through 2028.
However,,, something interesting:

The agreement between the two entities could have major implications on the future of the sport. As part of the deal, T-Mobile will work with MLB to test an automated ball-strike calling system over a 5G Private Mobile Network at select MiLB games this season. If this minor league experiment is successful, it could mean the eventual replacement of human umpires with the new, automated system.

 

[KluberSociety]

T-Mobile will make MLB.TV FREE to it's customers through 2028.
However,,, something interesting:

The agreement between the two entities could have major implications on the future of the sport. As part of the deal, T-Mobile will work with MLB to test an automated ball-strike calling system over a 5G Private Mobile Network at select MiLB games this season. If this minor league experiment is successful, it could mean the eventual replacement of human umpires with the new, automated system.

Cue 5G conspiracy theories

 

[sportscoach]

All I know is I am glad I got the MLB.tv with the MiLB games, I can throw the minor league game on mute while listening to the big league game lol

 

[Huber.]

All I know is I am glad I got the MLB.tv with the MiLB games, I can throw the minor league game on mute while listening to the big league game lol

Speaking of minor league games and Bally

MLB to stream all minor league games for free on Bally’s casinos app​

MLB to stream all minor league games for free on Bally’s casinos app

Major League Baseball owners have cut a deal with a casino giant to provide free broadcasts of all minor league games this season.

nypost.com

 

[Anglefan]

Is this Bally's a completely separate company? If not, I'm not sure why MLB would work with them at all right now

 

[eChameleon]

Is this Bally's a completely separate company? If not, I'm not sure why MLB would work with them at all right now

Yes, the sports networks only have the Bally's name because the group that runs the RSNs, Diamond/Sinclair, sold the naming rights to Bally's.

 

[shoes22]

Is this Bally's a completely separate company? If not, I'm not sure why MLB would work with them at all right now

Yes. That’s also why it’s a different and separate app than the one that streams the RSN channels.

 

[buzzdog]

So, I've read back about 8-9 pages of this thread and I still have no idea how I can watch the Guardians. I live 60 miles from Progressive Field when I'm not at work in New Mexico. My wife and I cut the cable last winter. I've managed to watch all the Cavs and Guardians games until recently using various combinations of Bally's, NBAtv, MLBtv via Directv (which I also recently cancelled).

I still have Bally's and they continued showing Cavs games through yesterday, but the Guardians games are definitely NOT available to me on the Bally's app either here in Ohio or in New Mexico.

We do subscribe to Sling to get some of the basic news channels and networks. Maybe I should swap Sling out and get FUBO instead?

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

So, I've read back about 8-9 pages of this thread and I still have no idea how I can watch the Guardians. I live 60 miles from Progressive Field when I'm not at work in New Mexico. My wife and I cut the cable last winter. I've managed to watch all the Cavs and Guardians games until recently using various combinations of Bally's, NBAtv, MLBtv via Directv (which I also recently cancelled).

I still have Bally's and they continued showing Cavs games through yesterday, but the Guardians games are definitely NOT available to me on the Bally's app either here in Ohio or in New Mexico.

We do subscribe to Sling to get some of the basic news channels and networks. Maybe I should swap Sling out and get FUBO instead?

I always just use StreamLocator and MLB.TV. Every game, no blackouts.

Yesterday, I think the MLB.TV app on Roku was slow to update--so I couldn't watch the game. "Failure to connect to MLB.TV" or something like that. I popped open my phone, which isn't on StreamLocator, and downloaded MLB.TV... and was able to watch the game.

Maybe every Guardians game is on MLB.TV right now due to the RSN bankruptcies?

 

[sportscoach]

I always just use StreamLocator and MLB.TV. Every game, no blackouts.

Yesterday, I think the MLB.TV app on Roku was slow to update--so I couldn't watch the game. "Failure to connect to MLB.TV" or something like that. I popped open my phone, which isn't on StreamLocator, and downloaded MLB.TV... and was able to watch the game.

Maybe every Guardians game is on MLB.TV right now due to the RSN bankruptcies?

I cannot watch the MLB.tv since I am in Canton and in the blackout area still...