The Houston Astros and the former owner of the Houston Rockets are gearing up to fight Comcast Corp.’s demand for $74 million stemming from the 2013 bankruptcy of a Houston sports television channel, WSJ Pro Bankruptcy reported. Houston’s regional sports channel exited bankruptcy in 2014 under the control of AT&T Inc. and DirecTV and has relaunched as AT&T SportsNet Southwest. But the chapter 11 proceedings returned to Judge Marvin Isgur of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston yesterday because of a lingering debt dispute between the network’s former co-owners. Comcast was owed more than $100 million in loans it provided to create Comcast SportsNet Houston, which broadcast games of the National Basketball Association’s Houston Rockets and Major League Baseball’s Houston Astros. Along with Comcast, the Astros and the Rockets owned stakes in the network.
