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ESPN Renews MLB Television Rights

Published on September 15, 2005 | Email this article
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ESPN has reached an eight-year regular season cable TV rights agreement with Major League Baseball that will continue to allow ESPN to air Sunday night baseball, a Wednesday night game, a new Monday night game, and MLB division playoff games that Fox does not air, Mediaweek reports.

The new deal runs from 2006 through 2013. The telecast rights are across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN HD, ESPN Deportes, and ESPN International.

Comcast and its Outdoor Life Network, which had set its sights on ESPN’s MLB rights, isn’t necessarily left out in the cold. MLB’s current Tuesday-Thursday package, to which ESPN also holds the rights to through the end of next season, is still up for grabs, meaning that Comcast’s OLN can still get a piece of the MLB telecast pie.

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