After announcing that Bally Sports was returning to FuboTV late last year, it actually launched on the service a few weeks ago. However, when that happened, FuboTV did note that a couple of the RSNs were not yet available. That included Bally Sports Great Lakes and Bally Sports San Diego.
FuboTV did say that those two would launch before the start of the MLB season, and it has indeed done that. Those two RSNs are really only doing baseball, since they are in much smaller markets. So it kind of made sense not to launch them right away. Now whether that was so that FuboTV did not have to pay licensing fees for those two while they were essentially useless, is another thing.
Bally Sports is still facing bankruptcy
When Sinclair bought the Fox Sports RSNs from Disney (after it bought Fox), the company had planned to create its own streaming service in Bally Sports Plus. Which it did. But it has not turned out too well for them. To do this, Bally Sports had to remove its RSNs from streaming services like FuboTV, YouTube TV and Hulu Live TV. For well over a year before launching Bally Sports Plus for $19.99 per month.
That cut a lot of its revenue. And local sports is already quite expensive. So now, the company is facing bankruptcy. So the Bally Sports RSNs being available on FuboTV might not last all that long. But FuboTV subscribers will definitely enjoy them while they are here.
The MLB season is getting ready to start on March 30, however Spring Training games will start next week. So it’s a good time of the year to get Bally Sports available on FuboTV for all of the MLB fans out there. And now they are all on FuboTV, at least for now.
2023-02-25 15:06:48