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If you need a reminder about how valuable baseball media rights are…
Posted: 19 Feb 2026 17:47 pm
by bfib
ESPN is canceling Sunday Night Baseball in favor of WNBA and Women’s Soccer
Re: If you need a reminder about how valuable baseball media rights are…
Posted: 19 Feb 2026 17:49 pm
by Bomber1
Good.
Now even less reason to ever watch ESPN.
Re: If you need a reminder about how valuable baseball media rights are…
Posted: 19 Feb 2026 17:50 pm
by Ozziesfan41
Bomber1 wrote: ↑19 Feb 2026 17:49 pm
Good.
Now even less reason to ever watch ESPN.
+1
Re: If you need a reminder about how valuable baseball media rights are…
Posted: 19 Feb 2026 17:52 pm
by bfib
Bomber1 wrote: ↑19 Feb 2026 17:49 pm
Good.
Now even less reason to ever watch ESPN.
Have to have it for college sports…they also have Monday Night Football
But yeah, don’t think I’ll be tuning in for much women’s soccer
Re: If you need a reminder about how valuable baseball media rights are…
Posted: 19 Feb 2026 17:59 pm
by Clubmaker2
Network will dedicate the whole day to women’s sports, cleverly calling it Women’s Sports Sundays, per Variety.
Re: If you need a reminder about how valuable baseball media rights are…
Posted: 19 Feb 2026 19:31 pm
by Hoosier59
Probably tired of the exorbitant prices it takes to purchase it from MLB! That’s why Fox, Bally, and Fan Duel cant make a go of it either. Baseball is pricing itself right out of business! When a player like Kyle Tucker gets 60 mil/year you had to know things were going to get worse!
Re: If you need a reminder about how valuable baseball media rights are…
Posted: 19 Feb 2026 21:34 pm
by TheJackBurton
Hoosier59 wrote: ↑19 Feb 2026 19:31 pm
Probably tired of the exorbitant prices it takes to purchase it from MLB! That’s why Fox, Bally, and Fan Duel cant make a go of it either. Baseball is pricing itself right out of business! When a player like Kyle Tucker gets 60 mil/year you had to know things were going to get worse!
fox didn't have an issue with it. They were forced to sell the regional channels as part of the disney merger
If that merger never happens, or covid never happens we aren't in this spot for regional stations.