Netflix Signs A Three Year Deal To Stream Mlb Live Events And Games

Today, Major League Baseball announced caller media authorities deals pinch ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Netflix that tally for nan adjacent 3 seasons. The Netflix woody brings unrecorded MLB games to its level and continues to turn its room of sports programming successful an statement that Front Office Sports reports is worthy astir $50 cardinal per year.

Netflix will watercourse a azygous crippled connected Opening Night of each season, nan Home Run Derby, and 1 “special arena game” each year. In 2026, that will screen nan “Field of Dreams” crippled broadcast from Dyersville, Iowa, connected August 13th, 2026, betwixt nan Minnesota Twins and Philadelphia Phillies.

The games signed up by each 3 networks screen a media woody that MLB antecedently had pinch ESPN alone, and connected NBC’s end, gives it nan Sunday Night Baseball game, arsenic good arsenic draught sum and different games for its networks. According to nan league, “Some Sunday nighttime games will watercourse connected Peacock and simulcast connected NBCSN during weeks location is overlap pinch antecedently negotiated media authorities deals connected NBC,” while Peacock will besides transportation MLB’s Sunday Leadoff games that commencement astir noon and simulcast connected nan recently relaunched NBC Sports Network.

And for ESPN, it has a 30-game broadcast package each play that will beryllium exclusive to its channels and nan ESPN app, 150 out-of-market games streaming (one per day) successful nan ESPN app, and nan expertise to waste MLB Network and immoderate in-market games via nan ESPN app.