Baseball
MP & Silva/Pitch provide path for Al Jazeera channels
MP & Silva and Pitch provide the content for Al Jazeera’s expansion into Asia
MLB afforded television coverage in Cuba
Cuba has broadcast its first full Major League Baseball game on free-to-air television since 1961, according to the Associated Press news agency.
OMNI pitches Mandarin broadcast of Blue Jays game
Canadian multilingual broadcaster OMNI Television will provide an exclusive Mandarin-language broadcast of today’s (Thursday) Toronto Blue Jays game at the Boston Red Sox – the first time an MLB baseball game has been shown in Mandarin in Canada.
Dodgers and MLB strike “tentative” agreement – report
The Los Angeles Dodgers will retain more than $6bn (€4.6bn) from their 25-year local rights deal with US broadcaster Time Warner Cable under a “tentative” agreement with the league, a report has claimed.
Dodgers’ Time Warner Cable deal faces fresh complications
Owners of the Los Angles Dodgers MLB team, Guggenheim Baseball Management, are being forced to rework their local rights deal with Time Warner Cable, according to the New York Post.