{"id":42366,"date":"2025-11-20T03:21:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=42366"},"modified":"2025-11-20T03:21:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:21:56","slug":"c4gjg38zyd8oat_mediumrssat_campaignrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/11\/20\/c4gjg38zyd8oat_mediumrssat_campaignrss\/","title":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball signs deals with Netflix, ESPN and NBCUniversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">America&#8217;s Major League Baseball (MLB) has signed a slew of deals with broadcast and streaming giants to show select games for the next three seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Netflix, the world&#8217;s largest streaming service, will air special baseball events that draw millions of viewers each year. These include the league&#8217;s opening night exclusive and its Home Run Derby, where players compete to hit the most home runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Media companies ESPN and NBCUniversal also have acquired rights to other MLB-related programmes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The three-year agreements will help the league expand its reach, said Baseball Commissioner Robert D Manfred Jr.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Starting with the 2026 season, the new deal will grant ESPN the rights to MLB.TV, its on-demand service that lets viewers watch teams outside their local region, said MLB on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It did not give details on the expected subscription fees for MLB.TV or on the value of the three agreements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Comcast-owned NBCUniversal, meanwhile, will take over the Sunday night games, bringing back regular games to its network for the first time in a quarter of a century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">As part of the deal, Netflix will also air the World Baseball Classic in Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The agreements will spread MLB coverage across a variety of platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Fox Sports will continue to air the World Series and other games, while Apple TV will stream Friday Night Baseball&#8217;s back-to-back matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The deals were a result of ESPN reportedly opting out of the final three seasons of its contract this year, which would have given the channel the rights to many of these MLB programmes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The contract would have cost ESPN more than $1.5bn (\u00a31.15bn) over the next three seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">ESPN&#8217;s opting-out led to drawn-out negotiations with the league and multiple platforms to show its matches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Major #League #Baseball #signs #deals #Netflix #ESPN #NBCUniversal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s Major League Baseball (MLB) has signed a slew of deals with broadcast and streaming giants to show select games&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42368,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42366\/revisions\/42368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}