![]() ![]() Major League Baseball is ready to produce and distribute games to fans in their local markets in the event that Diamond or any other regional sports network is unable to do so as required by their agreement with our clubs.”ĭiamond Sports reportedly skipped payments for other MLB teams, including the Diamondbacks, its push to obtain streaming rights. “Despite Diamond’s economic situation, there is every expectation that they will continue televising all games they are committed to during the bankruptcy process. “Diamond Sports Group’s bankruptcy declaration is an unfortunate development that we have been expecting,” MLB said in a statement at the time. ![]() Diamond Sports and the Padres were in the middle of a 20-year contract worth $1.2 billion through 2032.Īt the time of the bankruptcy filing, MLB said it was prepared to broadcast games locally if necessary. Diamond Sports is now trying to get rid of unprofitable contract. Talks with MLB over streaming rights have not progressed. MLB will air Padres games through its streaming service, MLB.TV, and other cable channels.ĭiamond Sports filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March. We are continuing to broadcast games for teams under our contracts.” MLB has forced our hand by its continued refusal to negotiate direct-to-consumer (DTC) streaming rights for all teams in our portfolio despite our proposal to pay every team in full in exchange for those rights. While DSG has significant liquidity and have been making rights payments to teams, the economics of the Padres’ contract were not aligned with market realities. When a reporter told an assistant attorney general that Nevada was the only state that hadn’t provided data, the attorney quoted TV’s “Seinfeld”: “Yada yada yada.”Īlabama education officials insisted they had posted the scores online.A Diamond Sports Group spokesperson provided the following statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday evening: “Diamond Sports Group (DSG) has decided not to provide additional funding to the San Diego RSN (regional sports network) that would enable it to make the rights payment to the San Diego Padres during the grace period and will no longer be broadcasting Padres games after Tuesday, May 30. Nevada called it an “annoyance” and took almost three months. New Mexico said the request was “burdensome” and took two months to send data. Some states required months of negotiating and multiple requests before they sent data. We called state education departments and made formal open records requests. Most states sent data within days or even hours. Some states, including Texas and California, post online the data we needed. We thought that would expedite data collection. The law requires school districts to give parents an annual “report card” on school performance, and all states have laws requiring disclosure of public information. (The 50th, Nebraska, didn’t have usable data because it didn’t give a statewide standardized test until last year.) In Georgia, that is the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test.Ī team of three reporters and two database specialists spent five months collecting databases of standardized test scores in those grades for 69,000 schools, in 14,743 districts in 49 states. The federal No Child Left Behind act requires each state to give a statewide standardized test to all students in grades 3 through 8 to measure performance in reading and math. “Cheating our children: The story behind the story”Īfter The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s analysis of test scores led to the state investigation and 2011 findings of widespread cheating in Atlanta schools, a national testing expert suggested we could do the same thing on a nationwide scale. ![]()
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