Major League Baseball didn’t necessarily expect to be renegotiating a good chunk of its TV rights in 2025, but it is in fact trying to parcel out the next few years of a major part of its schedule among three different players.

NBCUniversal , Netflix and Walt Disney’s ESPN have been in talks with Major League Baseball for the past several weeks , according to three people familiar with the discussions, all in a bid to reappropriate a package of games that had been earmarked for ESPN through 2029, but that the Disney sports-media giant will walk away from after this season as part of an opt-out clause it had in the contract.

In the talks taking place, NBCU is interested in a deal to carry MLB games on Sunday via its NBC broadcast network and its Peacock streaming service. Netfli

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