"With Major League Baseball confirming the Nationals would remain on MASN only through the 2025 season, the door officially opened for the franchise to negotiate new local television rights beginning in 2026. This development ended a prolonged legal and financial dispute that had shaped how Nationals baseball had been delivered to fans across Maryland, Washington D.C., and the surrounding region since the team's relocation from Montreal in 2005."
"After that, the franchise will have the freedom to negotiate new local television rights, and as we now know through the news broken by TalkNats on January 2nd that the team will join the MLB RSN package as the 7th team to go this route. This effectively ended one of baseball's longest-running and most complex media disputes. The arrangement, born out of a compromise when the Montreal Expos relocated to Washington in 2005, granted the Baltimore Orioles majority control over MASN and the Nationals' broadcasting rights."
The Nationals will remain on MASN through the 2025 season, after which the team gains the right to negotiate new local television agreements beginning in 2026. MLB confirmed the short-term continuation on MASN and the team will join the MLB RSN package, becoming the seventh team to take that route. The longstanding arrangement gave the Baltimore Orioles majority control of MASN and the Nationals' broadcast rights after the Expos' 2005 relocation. The relationship spawned legal disputes, arbitration, and contention over rights fees and market control. The change will affect game access, streaming options, local coverage, and fan engagement across Maryland and Washington, D.C.
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