Lip Man 1 Posted November 20 Share Posted November 20 With ESPN, NBC and Netflix worth 800 million per season: https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports-media/2025/11/19/mlb-reaches-new-media-deals-with-espn-nbc-and-netflix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lip Man 1 Posted November 20 Author Share Posted November 20 When you add in the 729 million a year from Fox and the 450 million a year from Turner that comes out to very close to two billion dollars a season in national TV revenue. That's a lot of broadcast revenue. Now add in national radio deals and these owners are making a pot full of money even before the first ticket is sold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
77 Hitmen Posted November 21 Share Posted November 21 The deal has been officially announced. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/mlb-media-rights-deals-nbc-espn-netflix.html Some interesting items from the deal: - MLB returns to NBC after a quarter century absence. Previously, NBC had been nearly synonymous with national telecasts going back to the first televised game in 1939. - NBC will now have a Sunday night pro sports telecasts all year long with Sunday Night Football being joined by a Sunday night NBA game after the NFL season ends and then Sunday Night Baseball after the NBA season ends and the baseball coverage will go until the NFL season starts up again. NBC will also broadcast a prime-time Monday night game on Labor Day - Early season Sunday Night Baseball games will be on Peacock instead of NBC. - First game of the season (Giants vs. Yankees) will be on Netflix - ESPN buys MLB.TV and will have the streaming rights to all out of market games. - ESPN also buys the in-market streaming rights for the Padres, Rockies, D-Backs, Guardians, Twins, and Mariners Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrittBurnsFan Posted November 21 Share Posted November 21 So will MLB.TV act as it has been just with a different owner or does it get absorbed into ESPN? Will it be ESPNMLB or something? I hope it is left as it was...easily my favorite streaming service! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted November 21 Share Posted November 21 2 hours ago, 77 Hitmen said: The deal has been officially announced. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/mlb-media-rights-deals-nbc-espn-netflix.html Some interesting items from the deal: - MLB returns to NBC after a quarter century absence. Previously, NBC had been nearly synonymous with national telecasts going back to the first televised game in 1939. - NBC will now have a Sunday night pro sports telecasts all year long with Sunday Night Football being joined by a Sunday night NBA game after the NFL season ends and then Sunday Night Baseball after the NBA season ends and the baseball coverage will go until the NFL season starts up again. NBC will also broadcast a prime-time Monday night game on Labor Day - Early season Sunday Night Baseball games will be on Peacock instead of NBC. - First game of the season (Giants vs. Yankees) will be on Netflix - ESPN buys MLB.TV and will have the streaming rights to all out of market games. - ESPN also buys the in-market streaming rights for the Padres, Rockies, D-Backs, Guardians, Twins, and Mariners Interesting addition of Mariners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted November 21 Share Posted November 21 1 hour ago, BrittBurnsFan said: So will MLB.TV act as it has been just with a different owner or does it get absorbed into ESPN? Will it be ESPNMLB or something? I hope it is left as it was...easily my favorite streaming service! Nope, there's going to be an additional gateway charge per month to access the new ESPN packages that are all getting bundled together under one banner (if you've been paying attention the last 2-3 months to their marketing.) Also curious if the out of market radio feeds and MiLB.TV remain as is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted November 25 Share Posted November 25 https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/11/mlb-media-rights-analysis-winners-espn-nbc-netflix-manfred/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WBWSF Posted November 25 Share Posted November 25 The Yankees claim they are losing money. They want to lower their payroll. Does anybody believe that the Yankees are losing money? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted November 25 Share Posted November 25 14 minutes ago, WBWSF said: The Yankees claim they are losing money. They want to lower their payroll. Does anybody believe that the Yankees are losing money? Depending on if the Yankees media company is within the actual Yankees corporation, that may well be true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted November 25 Share Posted November 25 (edited) 47 minutes ago, WBWSF said: The Yankees claim they are losing money. They want to lower their payroll. Does anybody believe that the Yankees are losing money? There are lots of accounting tricks for the teams that own/control their own broadcasting networks. "Clubs can manipulate revenue figures by acquiring partial ownership of the broadcasters that air their games. While revenue from local TV rights is subject to sharing across the league, profits generated through ownership stakes in the broadcasting networks are not. Instead, they are treated as a subsidiary/investment earnings." Edited November 25 by caulfield12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lip Man 1 Posted November 26 Author Share Posted November 26 4 minutes ago, caulfield12 said: There are lots of accounting tricks for the teams that own/control their own broadcasting networks. "Clubs can manipulate revenue figures by acquiring partial ownership of the broadcasters that air their games. While revenue from local TV rights is subject to sharing across the league, profits generated through ownership stakes in the broadcasting networks are not. Instead, they are treated as a subsidiary/investment earnings." Ted Turner used to do something like this with the Braves according to the book The Lords of the Realm. He'd basically only offer the rights to his own station WTBS, get very little money for them, but then claim a loss in broadcasting revenue even though WTBS and the Braves were basically under the same corporate structure. And he'd get all the advertising revenue. Other stations like WSB in Atlanta were prepared to offer more money for the rights but "somehow" they never got them. 😉 Owners cook the books that's a fact. That's why you and the MLBPA don't trust them one bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted November 26 Share Posted November 26 10 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said: Ted Turner used to do something like this with the Braves according to the book The Lords of the Realm. He'd basically only offer the rights to his own station WTBS, get very little money for them, but then claim a loss in broadcasting revenue even though WTBS and the Braves were basically under the same corporate structure. And he'd get all the advertising revenue. Other stations like WSB in Atlanta were prepared to offer more money for the rights but "somehow" they never got them. 😉 Owners cook the books that's a fact. That's why you and the MLBPA don't trust them one bit. NBA did the same thing with the WNBA broadcasting rights...basically negotiating against themselves. ng a truly open market, the deal was worth significantly more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
77 Hitmen Posted November 26 Share Posted November 26 2 hours ago, WBWSF said: The Yankees claim they are losing money. They want to lower their payroll. Does anybody believe that the Yankees are losing money? The CBA expires in 53 weeks. Get ready for a lot of posturing by both sides over the next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lip Man 1 Posted November 26 Author Share Posted November 26 2 hours ago, 77 Hitmen said: The CBA expires in 53 weeks. Get ready for a lot of posturing by both sides over the next year. The Yankees (oh the irony...) and Orioles and Manfred have already publicly said MLB needs a salary cap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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