 The final round of bids were due on April 15, 2019, with bids having been in excess of $10 billion or higher.Liberty and MLB were reported to have partnered on a joint bid, Big3's bid contained $6.5 billion in debt and only $3 billion in outside funding, while Sinclair had re-entered contention in a joint bid with Apollo.On April 26 and May 2, respectively, Fox Business Network and "The Wall Street Journal" reported that Sinclair was nearing an agreement to purchase the networks for $10 billion.