Posted on 02/19/2026 11:41:08 AM PST by WhiteHatBobby0701
For the first time in three decades, ESPN will no longer have the rights to Sunday Night Baseball this season. That's right.
No more Jon Miller and Joe Morgan! Well, to be fair, they've been gone for a decade now, but still, you get the point. It was a staple in households across America for 30 years. It's now gone forever.
Last year, NBC acquired the rights to SNB in a landmark deal that will shake up how – and where – we watch Major League Baseball this season.
Good luck trying to figure that out, by the way. Regular season games will be spread out just about everywhere throughout the season. ESPN will still air some mid-week games. FOX, of course, has plenty. NBC and Peacock are now a major player. TBS has Tuesday games. Apple still has Friday night games. Netflix even has Opening Night!
Get all that? Like I said, goooooooood luck!
Anyway, the big move here will be Sunday Night Baseball moving from ESPN to NBC this spring and summer. That's one part of the equation. The other part? What ESPN will replace it with.
It seems we finally have that answer:
That's right. Sunday Night Baseball is OUT, and "Women's Sports Sundays" are IN. Thoughts? First impressions?
(Excerpt) Read more at outkick.com ...
"Hey WNBA, I got an idea that'll sell some tickets: Shirts and Skins."
Hard core old timers and betters. The same people who think Fox News and Business are bad but we need only ESPN on our televisions. These are the same folks pushing for casinos in the area.
mud wrestling?
All the big city MLB teams have their own station. That is because the TV rights are owned by the team. Not by MLB.
This is why the Dodgers, Yankees, Cubs, Braves, Red Sox, etc can all afford the highest payrolls.
This is why the smaller market teams have such a hard time competing.
Baseball is NOT fair.
Unlike the NFL broadcasts are all owned by the NFL. So, all the NFL share equally in the TV revenue.
Even the NFL merchandise is shared equally. So, the person buying a Seahawks jersey or Josh Allen Bills jersey all gets split by the franchise owners equally.
This is why there is parity in the NFL.
In MLB the Pittsburgh Pirates have absolutely ZERO chance of winning the World Series.
Tell that to the Jets :)
The Braves do not own their own station.
The collapse of the Regional Sports Network model is leading to MLB taking over broadcasts of MLB, NBA, and NHL games with MLB’s studios.
The Braves are expected to be exclusively on WANF once the RSN model collapses. WANF (Atlanta News First) will have a syndication package in markets where they do not own a station; in most markets, they will be on the Atlanta News First station in that market. In our state, there is a WANF station in all seven markets. Most teams are switching to an MLB-owned broadcast that will be syndicated in 2026.
What was the TV network that Ted Turner owned that showed all the Atlanta Braves games on every cable network for 30 years?
That is what I was thinking of.
Even up here in NH we used to see all the Braves games on cable back in the 1980s & 90s.
Tommahawk Chop!
The Jets ownership is one of the worst in the NFL.
However, KC and Buffalo are both small TV markets in comparison to NY, LA, New England, Dallas and even Seattle.
Yet, KC has been in the playoffs for years in a row until this season.
Buffalo won the AFC east five years in a row.
What is crazy is these billionaire owners wanting to get the city to spend a billion or more to keep the stadium in their city. Like Chicago is doing now or what the Pagula family did to WNY.
Of course, the Padula’s had a legitimate offer to move the Bills to Toronto and play at the Rogers Center.
How bout them Gary Indiana Bears!
Meanwhile, ESPN on Sunday will rebroadcast the January 31 pay-per-view from Riyadh.
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