Overall view of Truist Park in the fifth inning during game two of a double header between the Atlanta Braves and the Miami Marlins on August 9, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Major League Baseball is nearing a finalized agreement with Disney‘s ESPN, Comcast‘s NBC Sports and Netflix on a new three-year media rights deals for packages of live games.
Earlier this year, ESPN opted out of its $550 million-per-year deal for Sunday Night Baseball. That package will be split into two parts for 2026-2028, if a deal closes. An agreement hasn’t yet been finalized and may still fall apart.
Under the terms currently being discussed, NBC would acquire all of the league’s Sunday games and Wild Card playoff games for about $200 million per year, according to people familiar with the matter. Netflix will get the rights to the Home Run Derby for about $50 million a year, according to two people familiar with the deal.
ESPN is getting a brand new package of rights for $550 million, according to people familiar with the matter. ESPN has roughly assigned about $450 million in value to license MLB TV, the league’s digital out-of-market package of games.
ESPN is also acquiring in-market games to five local teams — the Cleveland Guardians, San Diego Padres, Minnesota Twins, Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies — and will get a new mid-week package of national games. All of the agreements end after the 2028 season.
MLB, NBC, ESPN and Netflix all declined to comment on the deal.
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