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How Dallas Sports Fans Became Collateral Damage in the Streaming Wars

DATE POSTED:September 23, 2024
dallas sports tv broadcast illustrationBill Bennett is no run-of-the-mill baseball fan. The Richardson resident had Texas Rangers season tickets for years, he’s a member of the Dallas–Fort Worth chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research, and he even attended Adrian Beltré’s Hall of Fame induction ceremony last July, in Cooperstown, New York.The 1971 TCU grad holds a PhD in biochemistry, so he’s also a problem solver. Yet when he switched cable providers a few years ago, he just about gave up trying to watch local broadcasts of Rangers games, because the switch left him without Bally Sports Southwest, the regional sports network (RSN) that holds the team’s TV rights. “It kind of snuck up on me,” Bennett said. “All of a sudden, the games weren’t there. And once…

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