MLB executive Billy Chambers and his three person team took over Padres games in a day. What teams are next?
“When we found out that we were going to have the game, 24 hours in advance, we sprung into action. We had meetings with the crew, with the talent, we had got all of our graphics loaded into the truck,” Chambers recalls. “Yeah, it was an absolute fire drill.”
For Chambers, it was the culmination of months of work, but also a test run for what’s to come, with other RSNs expected to fail in the coming months, and the future of the RSN business in question. Chambers joined MLB on Feb. 1 as its first executive VP of local media. With the Bally Sports Networks in financial distress, and with uncertainty around other RSNs — Warner Bros. Discovery
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