By Phillip Swann The TV Answer Man – Follow me on X. ESPN has decided to opt out of its TV contract with Major League Baseball after the 2025 season, forgoing MLB broadcast rights for the 2026 ...

Although there were rumors and reports that an opt-out may be coming, the reality of baseball no longer airing on ESPN is a shock to anyone who has watched the network over the last 30-plus years ...

The previous eight-year deal, which ran from 2014-21, saw ESPN broadcast up to 90 regular-season games. It also stopped airing the daily “Baseball Tonight” highlights and news show in 2017.

Disney’s ESPN and Major League Baseball are breaking up after nearly 40 years together, a sign of how even the most durable content relationships have come under scrutiny in the streaming era ...

ESPN, MLB to end national television deal after this baseball season Published: Feb. 20, 2025, 9:40 p.m. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred speaks during a news conference Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, in ...

End of MLB-ESPN relationship is a bummer. But it makes sense in fractured TV landscape. Commissioner Rob Manfred got in some jabs about baseball’s relative scarcity across ESPN platforms ...

After three decades of partnership, Major League Baseball and ESPN split last month. As media breakups go, it was an ugly one. ESPN told MLB it was opting out of its rights deal, ending its long ...

ESPN and Major League Baseball will end their national television deal after 2025 season The sides opted out of a seven-year deal they agreed to in 2021 that averaged $550 million per season.

Times have changed at ESPN, where baseball’s footprint has steadily diminished since Gammons left in 2009. Baseball Tonight went from airing nightly to just once a week starting in 2017. In 2021 ...

ESPN is keeping its "Sunday Night Baseball" crew unchanged this year, with Karl Ravech, David Cone, and Eduardo Pérez set to return.

ESPN Plus is a sports-focused, over-the-top (OTT) streaming service that ESPN offers as a supplement to its main network programming. It features loads of live games, events, full-game replays ...