The MLB logo is shown on a on deck circle at an Arizona Diamondbacks game. / Chris Coduto/Getty Images It appears MLB will enter the 2026 campaign as a free agent looking to land a new national ...

With the local TV model that helped buoy smaller-market teams and took advantage of baseball’s “tonnage” and regional popularity all but dead, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is already talking ...

According to Manfred, ESPN approached MLB in an attempt to reduce its $550 million fee for broadcasting rights, which is far above Apple TV's $85 million annual deal and Roku's $10 million per ...

ESPN and TBS and the revenue from the league's MLB.tv streaming platform lifting all boats. The main drawback was local blackouts.

MLB's other main broadcast partner on linear TV is Fox. Comcast (NBC) and Paramount (CBS) may have interest in working with the league, while Amazon and Netflix are potential streamers to join ...

Major League Baseball and ESPN are ending their media rights partnership after more than three decades, a sign of how legacy TV’s decline and streaming’s ascendance are changing the way ...

Early Thursday night, news broke that ESPN and MLB will be ending their current TV rights deal with each other following the upcoming 2025 season. And while both sides technically had opt-outs in ...

MLB still has lucrative contracts with Fox (around $730 million per year) and Turner ($470 million). The league also relies more on local TV than those leagues because of its larger inventory of ...

On Thursday morning, ESPN informed MLB it was opting out of the final three years of its $550 million per season contract with baseball after this year. MLB did a fine job of presenting the opt ...

Nationally televised games, including matchups on ESPN, FOX, FS1, and MLB Network. MLB.TV add-on package ($29.99/month), which provides: Out-of-market games MLB Big Inning nightly highlights ...

ESPN and Major League Baseball will no longer be partners following the 2025 season, as the sides agreed to mutually opt out ...

Manfred wrote the league has “not been pleased with the minimal coverage that MLB has received on ESPN’s platforms over the past several years outside of the actual live game coverage.” ...