Tag: Monumental Sports & Entertainment

"While the RSN business has had plenty of editorial around its demise, I would not conflate the demise of an RSN system with the value of the local rights."

"Distributing our programming in new and additional ways is critical to our strategy of building the best local media platform in sports."

“I really felt like our network and many other RSNs became shells of themselves, just being placeholders for the live games.”

"We will do more with our live rights than ever before."

The rebrand is set to take effect this September ahead of the start of basketball and hockey season.

Leonsis was hoping to add the Orioles television rights to his network with the aim of creating a "D.C. area super network".

"Where the studio shows and shoulder programming goes in the future remains unclear."

This stake added to the 33% of NBC Sports Washington that MSE acquired in 2016. It now has full ownership of the regional sports network.

Zach Leonsis of Monumental Sports talks about why the company bought an RSN and what innovations he thinks could revolutionize that industry. iTunes: https://buff.ly/3nTJC5K  Spotify: https://buff.ly/3z9hErM iHeart:...

Monumental Sports & Entertainment and Comcast have announced MSE will acquire 100% of NBC Sports Washing, taking over NBC's 67% stake in the company.