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What Main Street Sports Group layoffs have meant for employees

Main Street's 2026 notices covered offices rather than teams, so they reached sales and research staff along with the people who made the broadcasts. Minnesota's posted letter listed account executives, research analysts and traffic directors beside broadcast engineers and editors, and Chron described the 18 people named in The Woodlands, Texas, as coordinators, engineers and producers. If you sold ads or scheduled them, you were in the same position as the people who produced the games. That letter also said the affected employees had no bumping rights and that no union represented them.

The company itself said the dates on those notices could change. Chief executive David Preschlack's statement, carried by SportsPro, said final decisions hadn't been made and that any and all aspects of the notices could be revoked at any time, and SportsPro relayed reports that a liquidation could come first or a partner could keep people in their jobs. The Minneapolis letter gave April 14 as the start of a 14-day period for first separations, and filings in our tracker gave April 10 in Florida and May 14 in New York. By April, Barrett Media reported, numerous employees had already left. If you got a letter, its date may not be the date your job ended. If you have that letter and your final pay records, keeping them together puts both dates in one place.

The Minneapolis letter also said the company didn't "meet the threshold to trigger WARN" and was writing to make officials aware of its circumstances, while Preschlack's statement said the notices went out "as required by law." The letter speaks for one office and the statement for the company.

Each of the three rounds before 2026 was explained as a new way of working, whether a localized video strategy in the Front Office Sports account, a digital rebuild in the statement Awful Announcing carried, or production organized by sport in a later Front Office Sports report. Sports media consultant Patrick Crakes, explaining his take on the 2025 layoffs, told Awful Announcing that distributors are "never going to pay you one penny for anything other than the games." The company also lost its baseball contracts. ESPN reported that all nine MLB teams shed their contracts on the verge of spring training and that a deal with DAZN disintegrated, and TheDesk.net reported that the search for a buyer failed.

The FanDuel name on the screen can blur who your employer was. Minnesota's letter came from Main Street Sports Group, LLC, and if you left earlier your paperwork may carry the Diamond Sports or Bally Sports name. San Diego's 2023 closure notice was filed by RSN Co., LLC, doing business as Bally Sports San Diego. If you're listing this job on an application or a benefits form, the legal name is the one to have ready.

Main Street's affairs didn't end with the broadcasts. TheDesk.net reported that its suits against Comcast and Charter say the cable companies' underpayment left it unable to pay teams, so as reported that fight is about money owed to teams. If you believe you're still owed pay, a dated tally is worth having in one place. If you moved onto COBRA through Main Street, the Labor Department's booklet lists an employer that "stops maintaining any group health plan" among the reasons a plan may end that coverage early, and says the plan must then send an early termination notice. If you're on Main Street COBRA, comparing another plan's price is an option to weigh before any such notice arrives.

A sourced history of Main Street Sports Group layoffs

• October 2026, FanDuel Sports Network's site says operations ended

  An October 1, 2026 capture of the site read "FanDuel Sports Network has ended operations and this application is no longer available." Its last professional game aired April 30, and remaining distributors had dropped its networks by the end of June, TheDesk.net reported.

• April 2026, Main Street told teams it would wind down

  Main Street told NBA and NHL teams it would cease operations at the end of their seasons, ESPN reported, and a spokesperson said it was preparing to wind down unless it reached a strategic transaction. Numerous employees had exited and others were expected to stay temporarily, Barrett Media reported.

• February 2026, layoff notices to all employees

  Main Street issued 60 days' notice to all employees, SportsPro reported. Its letter to Minnesota said the entire Minneapolis facility would close, remote workers included, with first separations during the 14 days beginning April 14.

• March 2025, about 10 regional executive producers let go

  About 10 regional network executive producers were let go as live production moved to an organization by sport instead of by region, sources told Front Office Sports.

• January 2025, digital staff cut after Chapter 11 exit

  Fresh out of bankruptcy, the network was laying off around two dozen staffers, Awful Announcing reported, including associate producers, producers/editors and vice presidents of production and content. A spokesperson said it had chosen to rebuild its digital and social efforts.

• August 2023, Bally Sports eliminated its national desk

  Eight employees were informed of the cuts when Bally Sports dropped the desk for a localized video strategy, Front Office Sports reported. Two sources told it the bankruptcy wasn't the reason.

What to do if you're laid off from Main Street Sports Group

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Main Street Sports Group's biggest hubs: California, Georgia, New York, Connecticut. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Main Street Sports Group's hub states run: California, Georgia, New York, Connecticut, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.