Major League Baseball is slated to announce its new TV agreements with NBC (CMCSA), Netflix (NFLX), and ESPN (DIS), The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand reports, citing sources briefed on the league’s plans. The new deals will give ESPN rights to out-of-market games for all 30 clubs and six in-market clubs, while NBC/Peacock will now have the first round of the playoffs and Sunday Night Baseball, and Netflix will broadcast the standalone Opening Day in prime time, the Home Run Derby, and the “Field of Dreams” contest, the author notes. NBC is expected to pay nearly $200M per year for the rights, while Netflix will shell out $50M per season, the author says.
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