Baseball

Baseball
USA

The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire a majority shareholding in BAMTech, the video technology business of MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media arm of Major League Baseball.

Baseball
USA

The Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals are at odds over their respective positions following the latest legal ruling in a long-running case concerning the latter Major League Baseball franchise’s revenue payments from US regional cable-television broadcaster MASN.

Baseball
Canada

Consumer electronics company Samsung has partnered with North America’s Major League Baseball to provide fans with a virtual reality offering for the remainder of the 2017 season.
Baseball
Colombia

The MP & Silva agency has been appointed as the exclusive global media-rights adviser for the Colombian Baseball League and the Serie Latinoamericana pan-continental competition.
Baseball
Canada

US technology company Intel has agreed its latest sports partnership by entering into a three-year deal with Major League Baseball for virtual reality coverage of the North American league’s games.
Baseball
USA

Social media platform Facebook has struck its latest live sports deal through an agreement with Major League Baseball to show 20 of its games during the ongoing 2017 season.
Baseball
Americas

The World Baseball Softball Confederation has appointed Canadian marketing and management consulting firm deFrias Management Group (dMG) to expand its broadcast distribution and increase its number of global partnerships.
Baseball
USA

US regional sports broadcaster Root Sports has introduced authenticated in-market live streaming of games for its Major League Baseball team partners.
Baseball
Austria

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

Major League Baseball has signed a wide-ranging content partnership with Indian digital media company Veqta.
Baseball
Austria

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.
Baseball
Austria

DAZN, the OTT service operated by digital sports media company Perform, has acquired live rights for Major League Baseball games in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
Baseball
USA

The US Department of Justice has said it has reached a settlement in a case that saw it sue telco AT&T and its DirecTV satellite operator for allegedly acting as the “ringleader” of a series of unlawful information exchanges between DirecTV and three of its competitors during carriage talks for regional pay-television channel SportsNet LA.
Baseball
California

Major League Baseball franchise the Los Angeles Dodgers and Charter Communications, the company that markets regional pay-television channel SportsNet LA, have opted to extend their rights partnership with LA-based broadcaster KLTA-TV.
Baseball
Latin America

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster DirecTV has acquired non-exclusive rights in Latin America for the 2017 World Baseball Classic national team tournament.
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
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
Baseball
Canada

MLBAM, the interactive media and internet company of Major League Baseball, has entered into a multi-year partnership with technology and social media platform 15 Seconds of Fame which promises to provide video content to fans which was never previously available.