Sports Business Journal reported<\/a> Thursday that Main Street Sports Group, which owns and operates the regional FanDuel Sports Network channels, is set to wind down operations following the first round of the NHL playoffs.<\/p>\nMain Street\u2019s lenders signed paperwork to \u201cwind down the business,\u201d SBJ reported.<\/p>\n
SBJ also reported that NBA teams using Main Street Sports Group this season, including the Timberwolves, are \u201clikey\u201d to be reimbursed for a portion of lost rights fees from this season.<\/p>\n
So the Wild and Timberwolves\u2019 local broadcasts will be distributed through other methods, which have yet to officially be determined, beginning next season.<\/p>\n
The NBA has reportedly told the Timberwolves and other teams they can begin signing new in-market deals for the 2026-27 season. Such a deal could include a streaming-only platform, or using an over-the-air channel. The latter is rarely financially lucrative for teams.<\/p>\n
SBJ reported the Wolves and Hornet \u201care contemplating local streaming-only deals,\u201d a path the Lynx may also follow.<\/p>\n
The NBA is reportedly looking into its own its national streaming regional sports network, though that likely won\u2019t come to fruition until 2027, at the earliest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FanDuel Sports Network\u2019s regional outlets appear en route to extinction. Sports Business Journal reported Thursday that Main Street…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5118],"tags":[5,161,2074,38,5280,555,4,43,162],"class_list":["post-541340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-wild","tag-hockey","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-minnesotawild","tag-nba","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-wild"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116349775527392618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}