Baseball
Octagon aligns with Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation
Agency to provide media rights evaluation and counsel to Latin American winter baseball leagues
New York Yankees ‘partnering with Amazon for local streaming-rights deal’
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.
FREE | MLB Data Report, 2019
In the latest interactive monthly data report, SportBusiness Media analyses the media-rights landscape of Major League Baseball
MLB Data Report, 2019
In the latest interactive monthly data report, SportBusiness Media analyses the media-rights landscape of Major League Baseball
Octagon strikes media content partnership with MiLB
Agency to aid affiliated minors in striking new distribution opportunities
WBSC adds Facebook to Premier12 media roster
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
World Series Game 1 barely avoids record-low TV rating
Major League Baseball and Fox Sports narrowly avoided setting a record for the least-watched World Series opener ever on US television
Pirates extend local rights deal with AT&T SportsNet
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.
MLB posts series of television, digital gains
Major League Baseball this season posted a series of gains in linear and digital television consumption, contrasting with the sport’s ongoing attendance decline.
MLB to make YouTube game available in key spots in Pacific Rim
League to distribute live streamed game into quartet of prominent international baseball markets
New York Yankees-led group completes re-acquisition of YES Network control
Prominent MLB team partners with Amazon, Sinclair, other investors for top-watched US RSN
DAZN expands beyond subscriber base with Twitter-based episode of ‘ChangeUp’
Special event on social media network marks the first time the MLB program has been shown to non-subscribers since March debut
Mediapro picks up WBSC rights in Americas until 2022
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.
NY judge wrestles with legal issues surrounding long-running MASN dispute
NY judge uncertain whether he can overturn a MLB arbitration ruling in favor of Washington Nationals
MASN files formal opposition to second MLB ruling favoring Nationals
Baltimore Orioles-controlled RSN again claims league was improperly partial in its long-running media dispute with the Washington Nationals
Yankees exploring creating YES Radio
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
MLB panel: Nationals owed nearly $100 million
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…
BT Sport extends MLB rights, BBC to show London Series
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 …