Major League Baseball on NBC

Country

United States

How it feels

This is a television program that shows Major League Baseball games on NBC and its related channels. It started in 1947 and has been on and off the air over the decades, covering regular season and postseason games.

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What happens

Major League Baseball on NBC is an American presentation of Major League Baseball (MLB) games produced by NBC Sports, and televised on the NBC television network, its cable channel NBCSN and streaming service Peacock. Major League Baseball games first aired on NBC from 1947 to 1989, including The NBC Game of the Week, when CBS acquired the broadcast television rights. Games returned to NBC in 1994 as part of The Baseball Network, a time-brokered package of broadcasts produced by Major League Baseball and split with ABC. After The Baseball Network folded after the 1995 season, NBC retained a smaller package through 2000, alternating rights to a package of postseason games with Fox (with NBC carrying the National League Championship Series and World Series in odd-numbered years, and the American League Championship Series and All-Star Game in even-numbered years). The Comcast SportsNet regional sports networks became part of NBC Sports after Comcast acquired NBCUniversal in 2011; they currently hold rights to the Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies, and San Francisco Giants. For the first time since 2000, regular season baseball returned to NBC in 2022 after the network agreed to a deal with the league for MLB Sunday Leadoff. One game per season would air on NBC, with the remainder of the games on the streaming service Peacock. This deal was short lived, with the contract ending after the 2023 season. Major League Baseball announced a new national media rights agreement with NBC covering broadcasts and streaming from 2026 to 2028. The deal includes NBC taking over broadcasts of Sunday Night Baseball and the Wild Card round from ESPN, with the return of MLB Sunday Leadoff to Peacock starting March 26, 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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