DETROIT, MI — For now there will be no Tigers games on Xfinity cable. Diamond Sports Group, which operates all of the 18 Bally Sports regional channels, and Comcast could not come to a new carrier agreement before Tuesday night’s deadline.
The move will leave leave tens of thousands of Michigan customers in the dark for coverage of local Major League Baseball. If things aren’t resolved over the next few months, NHL and NBA games will be lost as well.
“It’s disappointing that Comcast rejected a proposed extension that would have kept our channels on the air and that Comcast indicated that it intends to pull the signals, preventing fans from watching their favorite local teams,” Diamond Sports said in a statement released Tuesday night.
Diamond Sports has had financial woes the past several years and was faced with extinction after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and having MLB take over the production and distribution for two teams last season. Diamond Sports is a part of Sinclair Media.
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