Comcast sells NBC Sports Washington to Ted Leonsis’ Monumental Sports

[FAH1223]

Comcast isn’t selling NBC Sports affiliates in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, California and Bay Area.

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

Does this mean I won't be able to watch the Sports Junkies in the morning anymore?

 

[FAH1223]

Does this mean I won't be able to watch the Sports Junkies in the morning anymore?

Don’t know. Unless they sign a deal with Monumental or their current one gets grandfathered in.

NBC Sports Washington is a zombie regional sports network. It’s been like that for the last 4 years but COVID destroyed whatever little original programs they had left. It’s only Wizards or Caps games with pre and post game, Washington Football Today, and The Junkies.

The other NBC Sports RSNs in Philly, Bay Area, etc still have more programming.

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

Don’t know. Unless they sign a deal with Monumental or their current one gets grandfathered in.

NBC Sports Washington is a zombie regional sports network. It’s been like that for the last 4 years but COVID destroyed whatever little original programs they had left. It’s only Wizards or Caps games with pre and post game, Washington Football Today, and The Junkies.

The other NBC Sports RSNs in Philly, Bay Area, etc still have more programming.

Yeah, well they're going to obviously still have Caps and Wizards games given the new owner but I doubt the Junkies are gonna make the cut.

 

[FAH1223]

 

[BigTyme Records]

The Wizard need to be contracted from the league


Pointless ass , useless ass franchise

 

[FAH1223]

The Wizard need to be contracted from the league


Pointless ass , useless ass franchise

35 wins.

Almost $100M in operating profit in 2022.

And they own their own TV network and arena.

 

[mastermind]

35 wins.

Almost $100M in operating profit in 2022.

And they own their own TV network and arena.

As a fan of a sports team located in the United States, my first concern is definitely corporate profits.

 

[Dreamchaser]

This will fail for the wizards. NBC probably laughing all they way to the bank on this deal.

 

[FAH1223]

As a fan of a sports team located in the United States, my first concern is definitely corporate profits.

You can win while you still lose

American way

 

[FAH1223]

Neil has been blogging about the team for a decade for Hoop District. Since he was like 16-17 years old.

This is crazy.

Neil Dalal did what all sports observers do, and now he won’t be able to cover the Washington Wizards in-person anymore.

Following a snafu between Dalal and the Wizards that reached starting point guard Tyus Jones over him not being included on a promotional billboard put up by the team, Washington has revoked Dalal’s press credential.

He explained more in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday.

“Last month, I tweeted an observation that I quickly regretted,” Dalal wrote. “I have always strived to be player-friendly, and never meant to offend anyone, but I dropped the ball.”

Anyone with a keen eye will match up a team’s marketing efforts with its future personnel plans. Dalal is no different as an independent reporter covering the Wizards out of Washington, DC. Earlier this season, Dalal tweeted a photo of a Wizards promotional billboard which did not feature the recently acquired Jones. Given early reports out of Washington after the trade indicated the team planned to sign Jones long-term, his absence from the billboard was noteworthy.

Jones would later retweet the post, according to Wizards fans online.



Given the team itself was responsible for the billboard, punishing Dalal for talking about it is pretty silly.

The Wizards recently left their deal with NBC Sports, which axed full-time, external coverage of their team. In its place, team governor Ted Leonsis launched Monumental Sports Network, which is run in-house by his company, Monumental Sports & Entertainment. The network has already reportedly exerted influence over coverage of the team.

While The Athletic and Washington Post still have full-time Wizards writers, the team has not made it past the first round of the playoffs in nearly a decade. The Wizards are, controversially, likely to move to northern Virginia in the coming years.

So it’s no surprise the Wizards are paranoid. But banning reporters is only going to bring more negative attention.

 

[KFBF]

Terrible. Have some friends originally from DC that have picked up the San Diego teams since living here. You know how depressing shyt has to be for padres chargers clippers to seem like a more enticing alternative?