Major League Baseball's new media deals — and here comes Netflix
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Episode 565 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features a roundtable discussion with Jon Lewis of Sports Media Watch and Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal. In this podcast we discuss Major League Baseball's new three-year media rights agreements with ESPN, NBCUniversal and Netflix; what we think of the deal; the return of NBC to regularly airing MLB games on its broadcast network for the first time in 26 years; the partnership with Netflix and whether Netflix can make the Home Run Derby bigger; ESPN getting the rights to sell and distribute MLB.TV, the league’s out of market streaming service and a 30-game package exclusively on ESPN’s linear networks; whether Sunday Night Baseball can become a franchise; will this help Peacock, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:56.8 | U.K. slash AI dash glasses. Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host Richard Dyche. My producer is Bob Tabador. Patrick Antonetti is in Parks Unknown at the moment. But what is not unknown are my two guests. They are regulars on this podcast. Austin Karp. It's the sports media writer and reporter for Sports Business Journal. John Lewis, editor and founder of Sports Media Watch. |
| 1:30.1 | This will be a one-topic podcast, and we will discuss Major League Baseball's new |
| 1:35.0 | three-year media rights agreements with ESPN, NBC Universal, and Netflix. |
| 1:40.4 | Welcome, Austin. Welcome, John. |
| 1:43.0 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 1:44.3 | Good to be back, Richard. All right, I'm going to start with you, Austin. Welcome John. Hey, thanks for having me. Good to be back, Richard. |
| 1:46.3 | All right, I'm going to start with you, Austin. Nice work. You might have been the first out with this news. |
| 1:51.1 | So for the listeners who do not know, MLB, and a lot of this has been reported, I credit my colleague, Andrew Marshan, was ahead of the curve on this. |
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