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[quote=Anonymous]Not to beat this to death, but it was like $15 every month that you were required to pay. It was like a tax.

"Impact of cord-cutting, streaming

In the 21st century, the rise of cord-cutting has led to decreasing cable and satellite television subscriber numbers in the U.S., which in turn has reduced the revenue that RSNs receive from television provider subscriber fees and advertising.[13] These have resulted in an increasing erosion to the RSN market, and attempts to launch over-the-top (OTT) services at RSNs. These services require broadcasters to obtain in-market streaming rights to teams,[14][15] and have a high cost due to RSNs usually being subsidized by subscribers that are not interested in sports.[13][16] Major League Soccer, which previously broadcast most of its matches regionally on RSNs, switched to a centralized media rights model in the 2023 season; all match telecasts are now produced in-house and carried internationally on the MLS Season Pass subscription service under a ten-year digital rights agreement with Apple Inc.[17][18] In March 2023, Bally Sports parent company Diamond Sports Group filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection,[19] while Warner Bros. Discovery Sports (WBD) announced its intent to exit the regional sports market by divesting its AT&T SportsNet channels.[20][21]

Major League Baseball had established a local media department prior to the 2023 season (leveraging resources from MLB Network), in preparation for the possibility that league-produced telecasts would have to supplant RSNs incapable of broadcasting their teams' games.[22] This situation became reality in May 2023, when the rights to the San Diego Padres reverted to the team after Diamond missed a payment: beginning May 31, 2023, MLB Local Media took over the production of Padres regional games, distributing them via an in-market add-on to MLB.tv, and making agreements with multiple television providers to carry the games on local access channels (such as Cox Cable's YurView California, which had been the previous rightsholder of the Padres before they moved to Fox/Bally Sports San Diego). The broadcasts maintain team-contracted staff such as commentators.[23][24][25] In July 2023, MLB Local Media similarly took over the rights to the Arizona Diamondbacks after Diamond was granted a motion to decline its contract with the team.[26]

In 2023, amid the dismantling of AT&T SportsNet and the Diamond Sports bankruptcy, multiple NBA and NHL teams pivoted away from the pay television RSN model and returned to primarily carrying their games on free-to-air television—along with paid OTT services—ahead of their 2023–24 seasons, including the Phoenix Suns[27][28] and Utah Jazz of the NBA (with the latter signing with KJZZ-TV, which had formerly aired Jazz games while under the ownership of then-owner Larry H. Miller),[29][30] and the Arizona Coyotes and Vegas Golden Knights of the NHL (which both signed with E. W. Scripps Company's newly-formed Scripps Sports division).[31][32][33][34] "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_sports_network[/quote]

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