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FanDuel Sports Network
FanDuel Sports Network (formerly Bally Sports) is a group of regional sports networks in the United States owned by Main Street Sports Group (formerly Diamond Sports Group). The networks carry regional broadcasts of sporting events from various professional, collegiate, and high school sports teams. Through its owned-and-operated networks and several other affiliates, its programming was available to all or part of at least 33 states.
The networks were known as Fox Sports Networks and operated by News Corporation for most of their existence. They were acquired by Diamond Sports from the Walt Disney Company in 2019. After the takeover, Diamond sold naming rights to the channels to casino operator Bally's Corporation, resulting in their relaunch as Bally Sports on March 31, 2021. In 2023, Diamond Sports Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; during the bankruptcy, the company began to lose some of its sports rights to competing broadcast television, streaming, and part-time "direct-to-distributor" operations.
In October 2024, Diamond rebranded the channels as FanDuel Sports Network. Diamond Sports Group exited bankruptcy, and rebranded as Main Street Sports Group, on January 2, 2025. By January 2026, Main Street once again began to face financial difficulties, with attempts to sell the company to DAZN falling through, and the nine Major League Baseball teams under contract with Main Street terminating their agreements due to missed rights payments.
In February 2026, the company began to issue notices of impending layoffs and closures under the WARN Act. The following month, the Los Angeles Angels announced an agreement to buy out Main Street's ownership in the West channel In April 2026, continuing it as a team-owned RSN. Main Street confirmed that it would begin to wind down FDSN's operations following the conclusions of the 2025–26 NBA and NHL seasons; with the final live FDSN-produced sporting event being an NHL playoff game on April 30. Since then, some television providers have begun to drop the channels from their lineups.