Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. ESPN and Major League Baseball exercised an opt-out clause in their national broadcast deal on Thursday, ending the current ...

Major League Baseball and ESPN have “mutually agreed” to end their national television deal after the upcoming 2025 season, according to a memo baseball commissioner Rob Manfred sent to his owners ...

MLB opted out of its deal with ESPN, which was around $1.65 billion over three seasons, but restructured around Sunday Night Baseball, the playoffs and the Home Run Derby. Scott Taetsch / Getty Images ...

MLB’s current media rights deal with ESPN runs through the 2028 season, but either party can opt-out and end the deal after 2025. Per The New York Post, both ESPN and MLB have opt-outs in the deal ...

Major League Baseball has new three-year agreements with a trio of entertainment giants for the 2026-28 seasons, the league announced Wednesday. ESPN, NBC Universal, and Netflix are divvying up ...

ESPN’s coverage of Major League Baseball games — at least in its current form — will conclude at the end of the 2025 season. ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro informed baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on ...

After more than three decades together, MLB games might no longer be aired on ESPN after this year. The league and network have "mutually agreed to terminate their agreement after the 2025 season," ...

MESA, Ariz. — The breakup of ESPN and Major League Baseball was a shocker to those of us who looked at the partnership as a match made in heaven, or at least the baseball equivalent in Dyersville, ...

ESPN's coverage of Major League Baseball games will conclude at the end of the 2025 season, it was announced on Thursday. There was a March 1 deadline for MLB and ESPN to opt out of the final three ...

International sports broadcaster ESPN will end its long-standing rights partnership with North American baseball’s MLB after the upcoming 2025 season, triggering a race for the league to secure a new ...

ESPN and Major League Baseball are parting ways and will end their decades-long partnership after the 2025 season, the league announced on Thursday, a little less than a month before the start of the ...