{"id":406957,"date":"2026-01-14T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/406957\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:34:07","slug":"nationals-officially-join-mlbs-tv-umbrella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/406957\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals officially join MLB\u2019s TV umbrella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Nationals logo\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ZJ4NQKCQF5DGVINJZMKJFDUELA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>The Nationals have officially become the seventh team under MLB\u2019s TV umbrella, joining the D-backs, Padres, Rockies, Twins, Guardians and Mariners. Diamond Images\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The Nationals have officially become the seventh team under MLB\u2019s TV umbrella, joining the D-backs, Padres, Rockies, Twins, Guardians and Mariners. Nationals games will now be available to in-market fans via MLB\u2019s direct-to-consumer streaming platform. The team had been with MASN since 2004. The Nationals and Orioles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/03\/03\/nationals-set-to-regain-broadcast-rights-as-masn-agreement-dissolved\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/03\/03\/nationals-set-to-regain-broadcast-rights-as-masn-agreement-dissolved\/\">settled a prolonged legal dispute<\/a> over television rights in March, which allowed Washington to seek other options following the expiration of its deal with MASN for 2025. Orioles President of Business Operations Catie Griggs had said MASN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/01\/masn-orioles-in-talks-with-nationals-over-continuing-to-share-tv-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/01\/masn-orioles-in-talks-with-nationals-over-continuing-to-share-tv-network\/\">remained interested in working with the Nationals<\/a> to retain the rights. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nationals have officially become the seventh team under MLB\u2019s TV umbrella, joining the D-backs, Padres, Rockies, Twins,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-406957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406957","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=406957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}