TBS Extends Baseball Agreement

[TheBigA]

Warner Media's TBS has extended its agreement with Major League Baseball, and will add a Tuesday Night game to its schedule:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mlb-turner-sports-extend-tv-rights-deal-through-2028

The new deal is reported to be worth about $3 billion.

 

[CTListener]

It will be interesting to see how the expanded baseball postseason will do in the ratings. The early rounds will have the NBA finals and NFL and college football regular seasons for competition, but by the time the ALCS, NLCS and World Series are played, Lebron should have his fifth championship salted away. I hope that, as planned, some fans are allowed into the "bubble" sites for the final two rounds, might help retain viewers.

 

[Mgomrjsurf]

Also the Stanley Cup to if Lightning do not win tomorrow. Know time for a new deal with ESPN to that Includes rotatiin with FOX for both All-Star Game and Workd Series.

 

[CTListener]

Also the Stanley Cup to if Lightning do not win tomorrow.

Actually, Game 6 is scheduled for Monday night and the MLB playoffs begin on Tuesday, so only Game 7, on Wednesday, would be competing with baseball.

 

[Don CT]

I can't see the NBA being an issue, That series will be a 4 game blowout sweep.

 

[blackgold]

How about soccer?!

The NHL lags behind soccer. One Sunday evening a few years ago, a Mexican soccer league match beat out an NHL game.

 

[Don CT]

The NHL lags behind soccer. One Sunday evening a few years ago, a Mexican soccer league match beat out an NHL game.

The NHL is still part of the big 4. Soccer will never overtake the majors sports.

 

[CTListener]

The NHL is still part of the big 4. Soccer will never overtake the majors sports.

Univision's Spanish-language news and entertainment programs often draw viewer numbers comparable to -- or even slightly greater than -- several English-language networks' offerings each week. I'd find it entirely believable that a highly anticipated game in the Mexican first division could do better on ESPN Deportes overall than a typical regular season hockey matchup on the NHL Network or even NBC on Sunday afternoons. My intuition is that, even with hockey's lack of appeal across huge swaths of the United States, the Stanley Cup finals on NBC in English are still seen by more people than whatever Mexican futbol is being shown in Spanish on ESPN Deportes.

I have a feeling Mr. Eduardo will be entering this conversation at some point with numbers sure to surprise and disappoint us gringo hockey fans, though.