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Diamond Sports out, MLB in for Padres streams; Could Cardinals follow?
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SAN DIEGO – Major League Baseball will take over broadcasts of San Diego Padres games Wednesday after Diamond Sports missed a rights fees payment to the regional sports network’s parent company and let a grace period expire.
Diamond Sports owns 19 regional sports networks under the Bally Sports banner, including Bally Sports Midwest for St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Blues broadcasts.
The Padres are the first team to switch to a system in which MLB takes over production of game broadcasts. As part of that arrangement, MLB will also offer a direct-to-consumer streaming subscription of Padres broadcasts for $19.99 per month or $74.99 for the rest of the season by registering at MLB.TV.
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The DTC option would also eliminate blackout rules that were in place for Padres games previously aired on Bally Sports San Diego. MLB and Padres executives are hopeful this could expand the reach of their games by more than 2 million homes.
“We have been preparing for this groundbreaking moment,” Padres CEO Erik Greupner said in a statement. “The Padres are excited to be the first team to partner with Major League Baseball to offer a direct-to-consumer streaming option through MLB.TV without blackouts while preserving our in-market distribution through traditional cable and satellite television providers.”
What might this mean for the St. Louis Cardinals? Bill DeWitt Jr. and Bill DeWitt III told FOX 2 earlier this year, prior to the bankruptcy, that the Cardinals ownership was aware of potential changes to streaming and that MLB would work on a contingency plan, as the league has for the Padres.
“I think things are definitely going to change. MLB is on the case,” said DeWitt Jr. in January. “I think you’ll see, I don’t know how long it’s going to take, but not too long of a period of time, it’s going to be a different delivery system where everyone will have an opportunity to watch Cardinal baseball.”
The Padres new plan also allows fans to watch games through five different providers (DirecTV, Cox, Spectrum, AT&T U-Verse and fubo), some of the same providers that offer Cardinals games. The biggest difference comes to using MLB.TV. Anyone subscribed to the service in the St. Louis DMA is subject to local blackout restrictions, a longtime concern of fans and franchises alike. That is no longer the case for the Padres.
Team revenue is another consideration before any potential change involving the Cardinals. The franchise is nearly halfway through a TV-partner contract with Bally Sports Midwest that, currently standing, pays the team $1 billion through 2032.
The Cardinals, like the Padres, are minority owners in their Diamond Sports RSN, which could enable ownership to explore a DTC streaming option in the case of missed payments. According to Dan Caesar of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, there reportedly haven’t been any missed payments to the Cardinals, so “nothing appears imminent.”
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According to the Associated Press, there will be a court hearing Wednesday as to whether Diamond Sports can reduce its rights fees payments to the Cleveland Guardians, Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks. If not, those teams could be the the next to adapt to a streaming model like the Padres inherited from MLB.
With the Padres off Bally Sports, Diamond has the rights to 40 professional teams, including the Cardinals and 12 other baseball teams, along with a combined 27 NBA and NHL teams.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Two people are behind bars after a man reportedly attacked a Jefferson County deputy with a screwdriver during an attempted arrest over the weekend.
Prosecutors have charged Nicholas Davis, 47, and Amanda Davis, 45, of Dittmer, Missouri, with felonies in the investigation.
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The alleged attack followed a traffic stop of a driver in the 9500 block of Jones Creek Road on July 7, though the driver was not Nicholas or Amanda.
According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Nicholas reportedly came out of his nearby home, yelled at a deputy and started approaching him while holding a screwdriver. The deputy initially ordered Nicholas to back away, then used pepper spray.
Per court documents, the deputy attempted to arrest Nicholas, who then struck him in the chest with the screwdriver. Amanda reportedly approached the deputy and pulled him away from Nicholas before both ran inside their home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the situation prompted an hours-long standoff involving negotiators, a SWAT team and a K-9 deputy. The situation led to Nicholas refusing warnings and being bitten by a K-9.
Nicholas and Amanda are both jailed in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Nicholas is charged with first-degree assault on a special victim and armed criminal action. Amanda is charged with resisting/interfering with arrest.
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ST. LOUIS — The new St. Louis schools superintendent will be officially sworn into office today. Dr. Keisha Scarlett took over the job in July after the retirement of Dr. Kelvin Adams. She was assistant superintendent in the Seattle Public School District. The installation ceremony is at 6:15 p.m. before the regular school board meeting.
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ST. LOUIS — A gasoline tanker truck crashed into a Metro transit center near Riverview and Hall Streets early Tuesday morning and knocked over a power pole. The pole is leaning on other power lines. Police have the area blocked off here because there is a downed power line. Ameren and Metro crews are also on the scene.
The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. It’s still unclear exactly what caused the crash, but we do that there was a second vehicle somehow involved. The airbags on that second vehicle did deploy.
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Police at the scene have not been able to give us a lot of details. Metro officials tell FOX 2 that the transit center here is operating this morning for passengers and buses. Access to certain areas will be limited here as clean up unfolds.
A Metro spokesperson says half of the station isn’t being used right now because of safety issues. It isn’t impacting overall bus operations, everything is just happening on the other side of transit center.
The extent of the damage to the actual transit center is still unclear, but I’m told it does not appear to be extreme. A Metro spokesperson tells me there were no injuries to any metro workers or passengers. The tanker driver also was not injured.
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