The Dave Benz News, Sinclair's Streaming War and The Growing Influence of the Wolves New Owners with Michael Rand

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

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4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On today’s show, Dane is joined by Michael Rand of The Star Tribune to discuss the news that Timberwolves play-by-play voice Dave Benz will not return to Bally Sports North’s broadcast team next season and to discuss his article on Bally’s new, stand-alone streaming service that will retail for $20 a month next season. The conversation, necessarily, also hits on the role of Wolves new ownership beginning to make significant changes the fan experience, the broadcast crew being but a first breadcrumb. — The role of Sinclair Broadcast Group, who owns Bally Sports, in the dysfunctional relationship between fans who want to watch the Timberwolves but have not had the opportunity with their current television provider — Is $20 a month a fair price point? — The frustration of our friend, Dave, losing his job — The role Timberwolves new ownership played in the Benz decision, as part of a larger plan to change the Timberwolves fan experience — on both television and in-person — How we are seeing the influence of Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez grow, and how their style is different than Glen Taylor’s — The role ownership might play in the D’Angelo Russell and other offseason decisions yet to come this summer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the day more NBA podcast, brought to you by Blue Wire podcast, coming at you Thursday afternoon, May 5th.
0:20.5	And on today's show, we are going to discuss Sinclair Broadcast Group.
0:24.6	Sinclair owns Valley Sports, and they thus have played a pretty massive role in the lack of
0:30.7	visibility of the Timberwolves of the past few years, being as Wolves games have explicitly
0:35.8	been broadcast on only a few select local cable providers
0:40.6	on zero streaming services that has led many Timberl's fans to not have had the opportunity
0:46.9	to experience Anthony Edwards live anytime in his first two seasons of his career.
0:54.4	To me, this has been an issue that has not received, you know, the attention that
1:01.0	that I feel like it deserves or the opportunity cost of what is being missed in the fan base.
1:07.4	But one person who has covered this topic probably more than than anyone over the past few years is Michael Rand of the Star Tribune.
1:15.2	You know, Rand as the digital sports senior writer at the Strib,
1:19.1	host of the Daily Delivery Podcast for the Strib.
1:22.5	Rand, I've been on your show a few times to talk about this topic.
1:27.3	And with the announcement of Valley Sports
1:29.7	launching this standalone $20 a month streaming option, I thought of having you on. And then the
1:37.9	news today of Valley opting to let Dave Ben's go that just really made me feel like this is a
1:44.1	topic that we need to be talking about,
1:46.1	not between text messages to each other, but publicly.
1:50.1	So you wrote a story on Wednesday about this new streaming service,
1:55.2	which is obviously prior to the news of Dave's departure on Thursday morning that came out.
2:01.4	I've talked to some people today, so I've got some thoughts.
2:05.0	But my first question to you is just,
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