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Major League Baseball has expanded its international rights deal with ESPN to cover more territories in Europe and Africa
South Korea Baseball

The Korea Baseball Organization has launched a tender for the distribution of its media rights in territories outside Korea, covering the 2020 to 2023 seasons
USA Baseball

US sports-focused streaming service fuboTV has added NHL Network, MLB Network and MLB Strike Zone to its offering
USA Baseball

Prominent streaming platform and YES Network investor to simulcast local OTA games
USA Baseball

Marquee Sports Network, the long-planned regional sports network from Major League Baseball’s Chicago Cubs, debuted over the Feb.
USA Baseball

ESPN has reset its announcer team for its flagship Major League Baseball broadcast property, Sunday Night Baseball, going with a two-man booth
USA Baseball

Texas-based sports streaming operator FloSports has created a new centralized platform for its baseball content where more than 700 collegiate and youth league games will be shown this upcoming season
USA Baseball

Sports streaming technology company Deltatre has hired Major League Baseball’s James Johnson to the role of vice-president, Americas business development within its Live division.
South Korea Baseball

The Korea Baseball Organisation has agreed a domestic media rights deal with the country's three main free-to-air broadcasters worth KRW54bn ($45m) per season for the four seasons from 2020 to 2023, according…

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South Korea

The emergence of a ‘digital consortium’ to rival the long-standing Korea Pool of free-to-air broadcasters led the Korea Baseball Organisation to record-breaking rights income for its new cycle in the most recently concluded deals. But local industry experts see the digital consortium (DC) deal as a one-off and do not expect it to become a major player in the sports media-rights market.
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Global

In the latest interactive monthly data report, SportBusiness Media analyses the role of agencies in the media-rights market globally.
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Global

In the latest interactive monthly data report, SportBusiness Media analyses the media-rights landscape of Major League Baseball
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Global

In the latest interactive monthly data report, SportBusiness Media analyses the media-rights landscape of Major League Baseball
USA Baseball

Agency to provide media rights evaluation and counsel to Latin American winter baseball leagues
USA Baseball

The New York Yankees are reportedly looking to partner with e-commerce giant Amazon to become the first Major League Baseball team to offer games to in-market viewers without a cable TV subscription.
USA Baseball

Agency to aid affiliated minors in striking new distribution opportunities
USA Baseball

Facebook is exclusively live streaming in the US all 32 games from the World Baseball Softball Confederation's 2019 Premier12 national team baseball tournament, which started on Saturday in Mexico
USA Baseball

Major League Baseball and Fox Sports narrowly avoided setting a record for the least-watched World Series opener ever on US television
USA Baseball

Major League Baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates have signed a multi-year extension of their local TV rights deal with AT&T SportsNet, the second such team to do so with the network in the past week.
USA Baseball

Major League Baseball this season posted a series of gains in linear and digital television consumption, contrasting with the sport’s ongoing attendance decline.
USA Baseball

League to distribute live streamed game into quartet of prominent international baseball markets
USA Baseball

Prominent MLB team partners with Amazon, Sinclair, other investors for top-watched US RSN
USA Baseball

Special event on social media network marks the first time the MLB program has been shown to non-subscribers since March debut
Americas Baseball

Spanish agency Mediapro has secured exclusive media rights across the Americas until 2022 for all of the World Baseball Softball Confederation’s flagship international competitions.
USA Baseball

NY judge uncertain whether he can overturn a MLB arbitration ruling in favor of Washington Nationals
USA Baseball

Baltimore Orioles-controlled RSN again claims league was improperly partial in its long-running media dispute with the Washington Nationals
USA Baseball

The Yankees are exploring creating YES Radio. The Yankees are closing in on reacquiring a controlling stake in YES Network in partnership with Amazon and Sinclair
USA Baseball

A Major League Baseball arbitration committee has ruled the Washington Nationals are due nearly $100 million (US) in additional rights fees from the Baltimore Orioles in the latest salvo in their long-running…
United Kingdom Baseball

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has renewed its deal for Major League Baseball rights until the end of  2021, while public-service broadcaster the BBC has acquired rights to MLB's upcoming London …
Global Baseball

Major League Baseball struck a new partnership on Tuesday with YouTube incorporating live streaming rights to 13 games from the second half of the 2019 regular season
Global 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
USA 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.
Japan Baseball

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports is launching in Japan - its 11th market - on Saturday.
USA 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
Czech Republic Baseball

Telecommunications company O2 Czech Republic has struck a deal to show North America’s Major League Baseball.
Illinois Baseball

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
USA Baseball

Yahoo Sports has announced it is building a digital subscription product for the New York Mets MLB franchise