#mlb-media-rights

#mlb-media-rights

NBCUniversal's agreement with MLB secured a package that includes the return of Sunday Leadoff on Peacock, Sunday Night Baseball broadcasts and all four Wild Card Series of the postseason. The partnership additionally will bring a slate of regular season and postseason games to NBC's broadcast channel, new NBC Sports' cable network (NBCSN) and Peacock's streaming service. Sunday Night Baseball will continue to be the only MLB game scheduled that night, like when ESPN had the television rights.

Today, Major League Baseball announced new media rights deals with ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Netflix that run for the next three seasons. The Netflix deal brings live MLB games to its platform and continues to grow its library of sports programming in an arrangement that Front Office Sports reports is worth about $50 million per year. Netflix will stream a single game on Opening Night of each season, the Home Run Derby, and one "special event game" each year. In 2026, that will cover the "Field of Dreams" game broadcast from Dyersville, Iowa, on August 13th, 2026, between the Minnesota Twins and Philadelphia Phillies.

If you want to watch every Dodgers game in 2026, you'll likely need access to all of these outlets: SportsNet LA, Fox, ESPN, NBC, Peacock and Apple TV. That is not, shall we say, fan-friendly. Baseball's holy grail is this: One place to watch your team, and every team, wherever you are. One price. No blackouts. No need to decide whether to pay up for a subscription to an outlet you may never watch after the game ends.