The Diamond-Comcast Collision, Part 1,000

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Everyone would prefer the status quo of the R.S.N. system and punt the hard decisions about streaming to a later date when the future is clearer. Photo: Stacy Revere/Getty Image
John Ourand
April 25, 2024

The higher calling of journalism isn’t necessarily something that you choose so much as the profession chooses you. And yet, in the decades I’ve spent scrawling in notebooks, I never quite thought I would be covering the saga of the late-stage regional sports network business as if it contained the drama and intrigue of the final months of the Hundred Years’ War. And yet, here we are, dear reader, as the April 30 deadline looms for Diamond Sports to cut a deal with Comcast.