We’ll be watching plenty of baseball on TBS in coming years, as MLB and Turner Sports announced a seven-year extension to their media rights agreement, now running through the 2028 season. (more…)
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Miracle to dazzle crowd with Sager bobbleheads
Here are two of the more colorful giveaways to come down the pike in recent years, as the Fort Myers Miracle (High Class A; Florida State League) are giving away bobbleheads of broadcaster and modern-day boulevardier Craig Sager during an appearance. Sager will be on hand to sign autographs and pose for pictures when the […]
New MLB TV contracts finalized: $1.5B annually
We have a final tally on the new TV contracts signed between Major League Baseball and broadcast partners ESPN, Fox Sports and TBS: an average of $1.5 billion annually, or $12.4 billion over eight years. The deal between ESPN and MLB was made public earlier — $700 million annually, totaling $5.6 billion over eight years— […]
Fox, Turner retain MLB broadcast rights; NBC shut out
Fox Sports and Turner Sports are retaining rights to broadcast MLB games in 2014 and beyond, with Fox using an expanded portfolio of games as the cornerstone of Fox Sports One, a sports network to be built off the existing Speed Channel. The New York Times is reporting the deal, but doesn’t have any information on […]