{"id":102410,"date":"2025-08-22T18:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102410\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:25:13","slug":"nbcuniversal-major-league-baseball-near-3-year-600-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102410\/","title":{"rendered":"NBCUniversal &#038; Major League Baseball Near 3-Year, $600 Million Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nbcuniversal\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nbcuniversal\" data-tag=\"nbcuniversal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBCUniversal<\/a> is nearing a three-year deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/major-league-baseball\/\" id=\"auto-tag_major-league-baseball\" data-tag=\"major-league-baseball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Major League Baseball<\/a> worth close to $200 million a year  to carry games on NBC and Peacock, Deadline has confirmed, amid a flurry of activity around the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mlb\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mlb\" data-tag=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNegotiations are ongoing so the number could change, but the agreement, if signed and sealed, would include Wild Card playoff games and Peacock games on Sunday mornings. It would give the NBC broadcast network a full slate of Sunday sports with Sunday Night Football, Sunday Night Basketball and Sunday Night Baseball. Peacock\u2019s share of games would come with the streamer doubling down on sports to drive subscriber growth and retention as <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/11\/comcast-spinoff-cable-channels-1236181907\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236181907\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comcast prepares to split in half<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Wall Street Journal first reported details of the talks Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWSJ also said Netflix is near its own deal for baseball\u2019s Home Run Derby summer event through 2028 in a pact worth more than $35 million a year, with the giant streamer continuing its carefully curated move into live sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/comcast\/\" id=\"auto-tag_comcast\" data-tag=\"comcast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comcast<\/a> and Netflix both declined comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMeanwhile, the WSJ said, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/disney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disney\" data-tag=\"disney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/espn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_espn\" data-tag=\"espn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a> is looking to incorporate the league\u2019s MLB.TV streaming service into\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/media\/new-espn-fox-streaming-services-join-a-baffling-landscape-for-fans-7e430b4e?mod=article_inline\">ESPN\u2019s new direct-to-consumer streaming<\/a>\u00a0offering unveiled today. It cited sources familiar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tYahoo Sports had reported earlier that MLB was in advanced talks with the three media companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tESPN\u2019s latest deal called for an outlay to the league of $550 million a year from 2026-2028 to air 30 regular-season games a season as well as the Home Run Derby and Wild Card playoff round, but the partners agreed to end the agreement after the 2025 season, the WSJ said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tESPN is <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/espn-finally-enters-its-streaming-tomorrowland-disney-app-1236491829\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rolling out its new streaming app<\/a> September 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBCUniversal is nearing a three-year deal with Major League Baseball worth close to $200 million a year to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[6969,3716,352,13090,363,16108,99],"class_list":["post-102410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-comcast","tag-disney","tag-espn","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nbcuniversal","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}