Confirmed with Link: Bally Sports becoming FanDuel Sports on Oct 21

[Linkens Mastery]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1847315525371625621

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[BlueDream]

I have no issue with sports betting but honestly it’s just annoying at this point how it’s everywhere you look.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

I have no issue with sports betting but honestly it’s just annoying at this point how it’s everywhere you look.

100%

 

[Brian39]

Worth noting that this is a partnership between Fan Duel and Diamond Sports and not a transfer of ownership. I'm curious how this will impact the actual broadcasts. It's easy to assume that this means a bunch of gambling content, but Bally's is also a casino and we didn't get any of that with them.

 

[Snubbed4Vezina]

I'm an avid NHL bettor and I 100% absolutely cannot stand how much sports have become flooded with betting talk. It's dangerous and needs to be curtailed.

 

[STL fan in MN]

I assume this is just some sort of branding change and doesn’t really change the unknown of where/how Blues games will be broadcast after this season?

 

[TheDizee]

Hopefully they get rid of Rivers soon

 

[SirPaste]

I have no issue with sports betting but honestly it’s just annoying at this point how it’s everywhere you look.

Bally's was already a gambling company so the name is just changing from one to another.

 

[Dr Robot]

Bally's was already a gambling company so the name is just changing from one to another.

It could just be a naming rights but there might also be agreements in place for promotion of Fandual sports betting in addition. A lot of other broadcasts are putting significant time towards odds and parleys more so than we’ve seen so it’s not unreasonable to worry that’s a direction ours might veer more sharply towards.

 

[BlueDream]

Bally's was already a gambling company so the name is just changing from one to another.

Honestly didn’t even know that. I had never heard of Bally’s before they took over for FS.

But that may help explain why Bally’s has been terrible from day 1, IMO.

 

[Spear]

It could just be a naming rights but there might also be agreements in place for promotion of Fandual sports betting in addition. A lot of other broadcasts are putting significant time towards odds and parleys more so than we’ve seen so it’s not unreasonable to worry that’s a direction ours might veer more sharply towards.

I would be shocked if that didn't happen.