Bally Sports Kansas City
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Bally Sports Kansas City (BSKC) is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel broadcasts coverage of professional, collegiate, and high school sports events both within and outside the Kansas City area. It maintains offices at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.
Bally Sports Kansas City is available on
History
Originally operating as a subfeed of
On December 14, 2017, as part of a merger between both companies,
On March 14, 2023, Diamond Sports filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.[6]
Programming
Bally Sports Kansas City holds the exclusive regional cable television rights to the Kansas City Royals, and produces the Major League Baseball team's pre-game and post-game show Royals Live and the weekly magazine program Royals Insider. Starting with the 2017 season, the channel holds the exclusive regional television rights to Sporting Kansas City broadcasts.[7] Because there can be Royals and SKC programming at the same time, Bally Sports Kansas City is provided to cable operators as two separate channels, which normally carry identical programming.
During the college football season, the channel broadcasts Kansas Jayhawks and Kansas State Wildcats games in different time slots to avoid scheduling conflicts; the channel also broadcasts Kansas State Wildcats basketball and volleyball and baseball from the Wildcats and Kansas Jayhawks.
The channel also carries select events televised by Bally Sports Midwest including games from the St. Louis Blues (NHL); basketball, volleyball, baseball and wrestling events from the Missouri Tigers, with the university's college football games televised on an alternate feed.[1] The Blues games are only shown within the Kansas City metropolitan area, as a separate feed exists for the rest of the state of Kansas.[8]
Other sports programming on the network includes Big 12 Conference regular season women's basketball and baseball games, and championship matches from both conference-sanctioned sports; regular season and championship basketball games from the Missouri Valley Conference; college coaches' shows; football and basketball championships from the Missouri State High School Activities Association; and NBA games from the Oklahoma City Thunder televised by Bally Sports Oklahoma.[1] In addition select Minnesota Timberwolves (produced by Bally Sports North) are shown outside of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Region served | MLB | NBA | NHL | |
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Kansas City Royals | Minnesota Timberwolves (Bally Sports North) |
Oklahoma City Thunder (Bally Sports Oklahoma) |
St. Louis Blues (Bally Sports Midwest) | |
Kansas City, St. Joseph, Lawrence | ||||
Rest of Kansas |
Notable on-air staff
Kansas City Royals
- Ryan Lefebvre – play-by-play commentary
- Jake Eisenberg – fill in play-by-play commentary
- Rex Hudler – analyst
- Jeff Montgomery – analyst
- Joel Goldberg – in game reporter
- Mike Sweeney - Fill in studio analyst
- Jeremy Guthrie - Fill in studio analyst
Sporting Kansas City
- Nate Bukaty - play-by-play commentary
- Jacob Peterson - color analyst
- Carter Augustine - sideline reporter
References
- ^ a b c "FSN Announces Launch of FSN Kansas City". Fox Sports (Press release). January 24, 2008.[dead link]
- ^ Littleton, Cynthia (May 3, 2019). "Sinclair Clinches Disney-Regional Sports Networks Deal, Byron Allen Joins as Partner". Variety. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
- ^ "Sinclair completes acquisition of regional sports networks from Disney". Bloomberg. August 22, 2019. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
- ^ Novy-Williams, Eben (November 19, 2020). "Bally's Buys Sinclair RSN Naming Rights As Part of Sports Betting Push". Sportico.com. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
- ^ "Bally Sports, Coming March 31". YouTube (Fox Sports Midwest). March 17, 2021. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
- ^ Bouma, Luke (March 14, 2023). "Bally Sports Just Declared Bankruptcy – The Death of RSNs?". Cord Cutters News. Retrieved March 14, 2023.
- ^ "FOX Sports Kansas City and Sporting KC announce multi-year TV agreement beginning in 2017". Sporting Kansas City (Press release). December 20, 2016.
- ^ "FOX Sports Midwest TV listings". FOX Sports. March 22, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2021.