{"id":421486,"date":"2026-01-21T20:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421486\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T20:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:41:07","slug":"three-mlb-weekend-games-to-air-exclusively-on-abc-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421486\/","title":{"rendered":"Three MLB weekend games to air exclusively on ABC this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">ABC will exclusively air three weekend games this season, including Cubs-Giants (June 14 at 3pm ET), Yankees-Red Sox (June 27 at 1pm) and Cardinals-Cubs (Aug. 16 at 3pm). The ABC weekend games are part of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/11\/19\/sources-new-mlb-deals-with-espn-nbc-netflix-expected-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/11\/19\/sources-new-mlb-deals-with-espn-nbc-netflix-expected-today\/\"> ESPN\u2019s new MLB rights package<\/a>, which includes 30 primarily weeknight regular-season matchups, mostly during the summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">ESPN is also the rightsholder for MLB.tv while also securing in-market streaming rights for the MLB TV umbrella teams. ESPN is paying $550M annually for the new MLB rights package over the next three years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">While the network remains in wait and see mode, the most likely scenario is that MLB TV umbrella teams will be available on the MLB app for the entire 2026 season. It\u2019s possible that they could have the option to appear on the ESPN app during the upcoming season but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/01\/07\/in-market-mlb-umbrella-team-broadcasts-likely-not-on-espn-app-until-2027\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/01\/07\/in-market-mlb-umbrella-team-broadcasts-likely-not-on-espn-app-until-2027\/\">2027 is the most likely scenario<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABC will exclusively air three weekend games this season, including Cubs-Giants (June 14 at 3pm ET), Yankees-Red Sox&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-421486","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\/421486","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=421486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}