{"id":295083,"date":"2025-11-20T08:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295083\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:40:07","slug":"netflix-signs-a-three-year-deal-to-stream-mlb-live-events-and-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295083\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix signs a three year deal to stream MLB live events and games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Netflix <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnetflix.com%2Ftudum%2Farticles%2Fmlb-netflix-opening-day-home-run-derby-field-of-dreams\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will stream a single game on Opening Night of each season<\/a>, the Home Run Derby, and one \u201cspecial event game\u201d each year. In 2026, that will cover the \u201cField of Dreams\u201d game broadcast from Dyersville, Iowa, on August 13th, 2026, between the Minnesota Twins and Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The games signed up by all three networks cover a media deal that MLB previously had with ESPN alone, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/pressbox\/press-releases\/major-league-baseball-returns-to-nbc-and-peacock-in-2026-with-three-year-media-rights-partnership-featuring-extensive-exclusivity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on NBC\u2019s end<\/a>, gives it the Sunday Night Baseball game, as well as draft coverage and other games for its networks. According to the league, \u201cSome Sunday night games will stream on Peacock and simulcast on NBCSN during weeks there is overlap with previously negotiated media rights deals on NBC,\u201d while Peacock will also carry MLB\u2019s Sunday Leadoff games that start around noon and simulcast on the newly relaunched NBC Sports Network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">And <a href=\"https:\/\/espnpressroom.com\/us\/press-releases\/2025\/11\/espn-major-league-baseball-reach-innovative-new-agreement-featuring-significant-collection-of-national-and-local-rights\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for ESPN<\/a>, it has a 30-game broadcast package each season that will be exclusive to its channels and the ESPN app, 150 out-of-market games streaming (one per day) in the ESPN app, and the ability to sell MLB Network and some in-market games via the ESPN app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix will stream a single game on Opening Night of each season, the Home Run Derby, and one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,14438,3494,75,1316,44,82,5131,64],"class_list":["post-295083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-comcast","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-netflix","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-streaming","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}