The Royals announced today that have signed a new deal with Diamond Sports Group, owner of the FanDuel Sports Network, formerly known as Ballys. That company will continue to broadcast the clubs games in 2025. Coming into today, the Royals were one of the few clubs with their broadcast situation still up in the air. Diamond Sports Group was the broadcaster for almost half the league as of a few years ago, but cord cutting put a dent in the regional sports network (RSN) model. They filed for bankruptcy in March of 2023 and their profile has been decreasing since then. As part of the bankruptcy proce s, Diamond dropped its deals with the Padres and Diamondbacks, leaving Major League Baseball to take over those broadcasts for the 2024 season. That still left Diamond with 12 clubs in 2024 but they that they were only planning to keep one of those clubs for 2025, which was Atlanta. Of the other Christin Stewart Jersey 11, four of them followed the Padres and Diamondbacks in having MLB handle the broadcasts: the Brewers, Twins, Guardians and Reds. Six worked out new deals with Diamond, reportedly or presumedly with lower fees than their previous deals: the Marlins, Cardinals, Angels, Rays, Tigers and now the Royals. That leaves the Rangers as the final team in limbo. They reportedly arent going to return to Diamond but are looking into creating their own RSN, though its still unknown if they will be able to get that off the ground for the new season. Diamond emerged from bankruptcy last month but its still unclear what the long-term relationship with Major League Baseball will be. It has been that none of the new Diamond deals go beyond 2028, with the league considering various plans for future broadcast deals. Per , the Royals will have the chance to re-evaluate their Diamond deal after 2025, so it seems its only a one-year pact or perhaps has some kind of opt-out language. Like the other clubs who re-upped with Diamond, the Royals are going to be receiving le s revenue from this new pact than they did previously. As recently as 2022, they received $45MM for their annual rights fees but president of busine s operations Brooks Sherman confirmed today that the revenue will be lower in this new deal without providing specific, per Rogers. How that impacts the clubs offseason remains to be seen. They were quite aggre sive last winter, signing players like and , as well as giving a huge extension to That aggre sion paid off, with the Royals going from 56 wins in 2023 to 86 in 2024, good enough for a Wild Card spot. currently projects the Royals for a $116MM payroll next year, very close to where they were in 2024. The club recently added via trade and is looking for another lineup addition with a preference for the trade market over free agency. For fans, it seems little will change. The games will still be on television as before and those who streamed via the Bally Sports app will just have to switch to the FanDuel Sports Network app. Theres also now the added option of streaming via an add-on to Amazon Prime, which is the case with all clubs who have deals with Diamond. Tarik Skubal Jersey