re: Pelicans viewership is down this yr, yet having their best season in a long time

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Blame Bally's.

Gayle should be fricking livid. This could be our 2nd best year record wise and best year under the bensons yet access to watch the games is limited

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I think pretty much every team across the NHL, MLB and NBA that's on Bally's is livid that they got the rug pulled out from under them after Fox sold off everything.

It's such an insane story how a middling media company that specializes in local television like Sinclair wound up with all of these broadcasting rights and completely fumbled the bag. It's the one time I wish antitrust laws weren't a thing because had Disney been able to keep the local sports broadcast rights, it would be housed in their ESPN+ package more than likely. And understandably, not many owners seem willing to pay the buyout to Sinclair.

The Amazon deal should fix things. But it's still ridiculous how this all went down.