The RSN brands acquired by Sinclair are: Fox Sports Arizona, Fox Sports Detroit, Fox Sports Florida, Fox Sports Sun, Fox Sports North, Fox Sports Wisconsin, Fox Sports Ohio, SportsTime Ohio, Fox Sports South, Fox Sports Carolina, Fox Sports Tennessee, Fox Sports Southeast, Fox Sports Southwest, Fox Sports Oklahoma, Fox Sports New Orleans, Fox Sports Midwest, Fox Sports Kansas City, Fox Sports Indiana, Fox Sports San Diego, Fox Sports West, and Prime Ticket. Also included in the acquisition is Fox College Sports.
Sinclair now becomes a big player in the regional sports business. It also is starting the Marquee Network with the Chicago Cubs and it owns the Tennis Channel. Sinclair is also interested in looking at the regional sports networks owned by AT&T. Those networks are in Seattle, Pittsburgh, Colorado and the Southwest.
The RSNs were acquired via a newly formed, indirect subsidiary of Sinclair, Diamond Sports Group, LLC.B yron Allen has agreed to become an equity and content partner in a newly formed indirect subsidiary of Sinclair and an indirect parent of Diamond (“RSN Holding Company”). Allen, who bought The Weather Channel in 2018, is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Entertainment Studios.
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