German sports broadcaster Sport1 has agreed a sublicensing deal with DAZN, the OTT service operated by digital sports media company Perform, for rights to North America’s Major League Baseball.
The three-year deal will cover the 2017 to 2019 seasons and include platform-neutral, audio-visual broadcast rights in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
Under the agreement, at least 75 MLB games will be shown live on pay-television channel Sport1 US over the course of the agreement. Selected live games will be shown exclusively on Sport 1’s free-to-air channel.
Sport1 will also show coverage of MLB’s All-Star Game and season-ending World Series.
DAZN’s MLB rights agreement, which it signed earlier this week, runs for four seasons and covers Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
DAZN holds a content partnership with Sport1, through which the two platforms share rights to sports properties.