Looks like the best choice to buy out Bally, if that is the price tag. Then the question becomes do the ownership group want to pony up that much. On paper it looks like a good deal, but there's a lot more to know.

Very interesting, I would love to get access to the financials to see what the investment would be to buy BSN. There's a real reward but real risk and it's my sense that ownership is somewhat risk averse so I don't think they would bite. 

I think this is a transition year for the Twins and a few other MLB teams. I think they partner with MLB to get access to facilities, tech, and content and get their ad money for now. I see this coming to a head where local/regional TV becomes an MLB owned and operated operation for all but the most high end teams like the Yankees, Mets, and Dodgers. Other similar option would be to aggregate and sell the rights to a Prime Video, Hulu or Netflix type streamer. In other words, aggregate the local TV for most teams like Bally did but run it better with more realistic payouts to teams and less debt on the operation. Gives you the greatest efficiency, some good cross-marketing opportunities, and would give MLB the chance to raise baseball's profile from a regional to a more national audience. Big upfront investment but biggest rewards.  

No mention of the possibility of a local broadcast partner? 

Hubbard's production subsidiary F&F Productions handles major sports and entertainment events such as the Super Bowl and NCAA Basketball Final Four for the national broadcast and cable networks.  One would think they could arise to the challenge of handling roughly six Twins games per week to be aired on KSTC or one of KSTP's secondary digital channels.  Hubbard also has sister stations in Duluth and Rochester with secondary channels where the games could be carried as well.  Coverage would be trickier, of course, for western MN and neighboring IA and ND/SD viewership where they would need to get creative, but the advantage here is that games would be readily available both over the air and on cable/satellite/YouTube TV for an overwhelming portion of the audience reached by BSN.

I am not familiar with the rules on streaming rights for MLB products, but KSTC could handle this as well if it is an option for teams like the Twins to consider online.

Twins games on Prime would be awesome.

1st we have to look at the older fan which makes up a good portion of the total of fans, that would get lost streaming , So cable would make more sense, going back to Midwest Sport Channel or Fox. But cable is more expensive & we have to make Twins games more accessible. The older fans are less active so cable works but more active younger fans needs apps on their phones & something cheaper than cable. If I could buy cable the main reason is to watch the Twins but in Brazil, Twins games are absolutely not an option on cable.

1 hour ago, Doctor Gast said:

1st we have to look at the older fan which makes up a good portion of the total of fans, that would get lost streaming , So cable would make more sense, going back to Midwest Sport Channel or Fox. But cable is more expensive & we have to make Twins games more accessible. The older fans are less active so cable works but more active younger fans needs apps on their phones & something cheaper than cable. If I could buy cable the main reason is to watch the Twins but in Brazil, Twins games are absolutely not an option on cable.

It shouldn't be either/or. Twins games should be available through cable AND streaming.

45 minutes ago, DJL44 said:

It shouldn't be either/or. Twins games should be available through cable AND streaming.

That was my point, sorry that I didn't summarized. 

All that has been teased so far by the organization is that Twins games will be widely available to the public with no blackouts. Which makes me think @Althebum82is onto something with the local broadcast partner. Hopefully people in Minnesota and the surrounding area has the ability to pick up the game on over-the-air stations. 

At this point, wouldn't we be hearing rumblings of the Pohlad's buying out BSN, or creating their own channel like Victory Sports One back in the day?

i have gotten the feeling that mlb is going to take control of a lot of the tv rights  so we shall see