Unless 11th-hour financing can coerce its nine MLB teams to stay put, Main Street Sports Group could have little choice but to file for Chapter 7 and immediately liquidate its business next week, sources told SBJ. Under that scenario, the FanDuel Sports Networks for 20 NBA and NHL teams could conceivably go dark at midseason after a brief grace period — forcing the teams to scramble to contingency plans that involve league-controlled apps or independent streaming platforms that could emergently digitize their games.
While meetings between Main Street, prospective buyer/financier DAZN, MLB, the NBA and NHL have reconvened in various forms and subsets this week, a clear domino effect will emerge if the nine MLB teams — Braves, Reds,…