The regional sports network landscape changed again this week with the departure of Warner/Discovery from the RSN business, something that company had previously announced would happen at the end of this year.
Per Daniel Frankel of NextTV, this is what’s happening next:
Baseball’s Houston Astros and the NBA’s Houston Rockets have acquired AT&T SportsNet Southwest from Warner Bros Discovery and will relaunch the channel Tuesday as the “Space City Home Network.”
The move completes the media conglomerate’s exit from the regional sports networks (RSN) business, reluctantly foisted upon WBD when it, in turn, foisted the highly leveraged merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery upon all of us 18 months ago.