Starting next season, the NBA Phoenix Suns and WNBA Mercury will leave Sinclair's bankrupt Bally Sports Arizona for Gray Broadcasting's indie KTVK and new LPTV KPHE (branded with CBS affil KPHO as "Arizona's Family") for a deal that will have both teams' games not airing nationally on ABC, ESPN or TNT airing on the two stations (KPHE may be low-power, but will eventually have translators all over the state)--KTVK dropped Fox in the mid-90s and never looked back with its successful mix of sports, news and "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune" running in the first hour of prime time at 7 p.m.:
https://www.nexttv.com/news/phoenix-suns-fastbreak-to-broadcast-with-gray-from-bankrupt-bally-rsn?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email As the MLB teams are seeing the Bally regional channels default on payments, there could be a lot of sports teams returning to OTA in the next year. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/7ecf5fed-7f0d-4a56-aa29-1ceff353f358n%40googlegroups.com.
