In what was announced as a mutual breakup of two longtime media partners, Major League Baseball and ESPN announced they would opt out of their contract ahead of their March deadline to do so. ESPN has ...

Earlier this month, I posted here about the possibility of ESPN opting out of the last three years of its deal with MLB. The ...

According to reports, ESPN isn’t operating internally as if 2025 will be the last season it offers MLB games. Many around the sports media industry were surprised that ESPN and MLB decided to mutually ...

While Major League Baseball has worked to expand their reach through streaming agreements over recent years, their TV rights contract with ESPN is poised to come to an end after the 2025 season. The ...

ESPN's coverage of Major League Baseball games will conclude at the end of the 2025 season, it was announced on Thursday. There was a March 1 deadline for MLB and ESPN to opt out of the final three ...

The league is also very close to agreements with NBC and Netflix, according to reports. While it has always been the case, the importance of live sports rights in media companies’ efforts to attract ...

ESPN and MLB are reportedly close to an agreement that would allow the network to carry MLB.TV and the rights to all out-of-market baseball games — and select in-market games, according to Andrew ...