Report: MLB, ESPN End TV Contract; Manfred Calls Out 'Minimal Coverage' on Platforms
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MLB, ESPN opt out of TV deal for 2026-28; MLB cites ‘minimal coverage’
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MLB, ESPN mutually parting ways on media rights deal after 2025 season: report
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred wrote in a letter to league owners that the media rights deal with ESPN has mutually been terminated after the 2025 season.
End of MLB-ESPN relationship is a bummer. But it makes sense in fractured TV landscape.
At baseball’s Winter Meetings, ESPN used to build out a set and ferry its analysts through to hold forth on the biggest or ...