Major League Soccer club the New York Red Bulls has agreed a multi-year extension to its regional rights partnership with MSG Networks, the pay-television channel owned by New York sports venue Madison Square Garden.
MSG Networks, which has held the local broadcast rights to the team since 1996, will produce 22 of the Red Bulls’ 34 regular season games during the 2014 season, including pregame and postgame coverage.
New York’s remaining 12 regular season matches will be exclusively shown by MLS national partners ESPN and the NBC Sports Group. In addition, UniMas and Univision will telecast four matches and one match, respectively, in Spanish. MSG Networks will broadcast the latter five games simultaneously in English.
The Red Bulls’ season kicks off on Saturday when the team plays Vancouver Whitecaps.