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BASEBALL’S FORMER COMMISSIONER AND STREAMING TV
You don’t become America’s national pastime without learning how to adapt — and Major League Baseball (MLB) made the ultimate pivot. This October, MLB’s biggest stars and teams with the most wins all-time will take the field for the 2021 playoffs. The winners will be crowned champions of the world, but the league these champs call home already owns an equally prestigious title: the founders of streaming services. Their legendary reign started back in the early 2000s, when former MLB commissioner Bud Selig asked every team in the league to contribute $4 million for the creation of Baseball Advanced Media (BAM). At that time, the dot-com bubble had yet to burst, and Selig wanted America’s once favorite sport to “keep up with the times,” so to speak. BAM created a website for each team, but it soon took on other qualities that gave it an edge. The Hustle reports that BAM offered online video, multidevice watching services, and a large data and broadband structure before other major platforms even existed.
BAM became such a smashing success that it soon became BAMTech and started creating platforms for other popular sports leagues like World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and the National Hockey League (NHL). (It even assisted HBO!) In 2017, one of the biggest players in movies, Disney, invested in BAMTech, claiming a majority stake, and began its transition into streaming services. Soon after, as The Hustle reported in July 2021, Disney announced Disney+, a streaming platform whose features were similar to that of Netflix and BAM. In March 2021, Disney+ hit more than 100 million users, making it a powerhouse in streaming — all created because of BAMTech. Today, BAM and BAMTech are credited with being on the forefront of streaming services and continue to hold a power position over streaming and within entertainment companies. “Media companies are not good at tech and really struggle with large scale,” says investment analyst Rich Greenfield in The Verge. “They don’t trust companies like Google or Amazon, who want to displace them. BAM is seen as friendly.”
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A FEW OBSTACLES STAND IN YOUR WAY
It’s a common misconception that dismissed charges fall off your criminal record. The unfortunate truth, however, is that many employers will still be able to see dismissed charges when they review your criminal record and will dismiss you as a candidate for the job before you get a chance to prove yourself. If you don’t want a criminal charge to appear on your record, then you’ll have to file to expunge that dismissed charge — but there are strict requirements for successfully doing so. First, the defense or the prosecution must dismiss the charge. Many times, the court will dismiss cases on first offender grounds. This means you agreed that the evidence presented in your case was enough to convict you, and that the case was later dismissed when you completed some sort of community service or rehabilitation program, for example.
Unfortunately, if this was what happened in your case, you are not entitled to have it expunged from your record.
Second, you must have no other criminal history. One fact you will need to convince the court of is that the dismissed charge still materially affects you. If you have other convictions on your record, the courts will often rule that expunging one charge probably won’t change your situation. Sure, employers wouldn’t be able to see that charge anymore, but they would still see any other convictions and toss out your application based on those charges. While the outlook for getting your dismissed case expunged might seem grim, don’t panic just yet. With the right attorney in your corner, you can still get a favorable outcome for your case. Call the Law Offices of Daniel J. Miller today at 757.892.5600 to see how we can help you make sure you get a fair shake on your next job application.
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