MLB today announced new media rights agreements with ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Netflix, and confirmed that, contrary to previous reports, Apple will continue to stream “Friday Night Baseball”. Here are the details.
Apple keeps ‘Friday Night Baseball’, but that’s it
Earlier this year, Yahoo Sports’ Kendall Baker reported that Apple had decided to end its relationship with Major League Baseball, which meant that not only would Apple not expand its streaming deal with the league, but the company would also end its Friday Night Baseball programming.
Baker went on to claim that, although things were still in motion and subject to change, Friday night games would likely move to NBC/Peacock, and that Netflix would expand its partnership with the league to stream Home Run Derby matches.
🚨 SCOOP: MLB rights deals are “close to being done,” per sources.
What I’m hearing:
– Apple is fully out. RIP Friday Night Baseball
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