Major League Baseball (MLB)

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The quest to purchase the former Fox regional sports networks has taken yet another twist with reports that Major League Baseball has teamed up with Liberty Media Group to buy the assets, which are worth…
Baseball

Major League Baseball has agreed a one-season extension to its rights deal with Facebook, but the social media company will have a smaller line-up of live games in 2019
Baseball

In its latest sports content acquisition, Amazon has announced that MLB.TV – Major League Baseball's out-of-market package – will be made available on its Prime Video channels in the United States.
Baseball

Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs has unveiled a revamped YouTube channel, offering a preview of content that will be available on its regional sports network, due to launch in 2020
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Telecommunications company O2 Czech Republic has struck a deal to show North America’s Major League Baseball.
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MLB team the Chicago Cubs' new RSN, which will launch next year in partnership with Sinclair Broadcast Group, could net somewhere between $40m (€35m) and $50m in positive cash flow. Ma

Disney has attracted three second-round bids for the regional sports networks it needs to unload as part of its $71.3bn (€62.2bn) takeover of 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets.
Baseball

As widely expected, Fox Sports and ESPN will broadcast one game each from the Major League Baseball London Series between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees next summer
Baseball

ESPN's nationally-televised Sunday night Major League Baseball games will be moved back an hour – from 8pm Eastern Time to 7pm – in large part to appease players and fans.
Baseball

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has suggested the league could participate in the bidding process for the 22 Regional Sports Networks that are being divested as part of the asset takeover deal between Disney…
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The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has struck a seven-year extension worth a reported $5bn (€4.4
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Michael Treanor, Major League Baseball’s producer of live events, has insisted the league’s partnership with social media company Facebook has been a success despite mixed reactions to the deal.
Football

Pay-television platform Sky Italia and Perform Group’s OTT service DAZN will probably both be happy with the outcome of an intense period of rights negotiations in Italy.
Baseball

Swedish media company Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) has acquired rights in the Nordic region for North America’s Major League Baseball.
Baseball

Major League Baseball has secured an uplift in the value of its media rights in China despite the early termination of its deal with LeSports.

Baseball

Major League Baseball has extended and expanded its wide-ranging partnership with YouTube TV, the cable-free live television service of video-sharing company YouTube.

Baseball

DAZN last month secured Major League Baseball rights, the only major US sports property missing from its portfolio in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
American Football

In the latest interactive monthly data report, TV Sports Markets analyses media-rights in the US major leagues: MLB, the NBA, the NFL and the NHL