Disney‘s ESPN and Major League Baseball are breaking up after nearly 40 years together, a sign of how even the most durable content relationships have come under scrutiny in the streaming era ...

ESPN’s coverage of Major League Baseball games — at least in its current form — will conclude at the end of the 2025 season. ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro informed MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred ...

ESPN and Major League Baseball are parting ways and will end their decades-long partnership after the 2025 season, the league announced on Thursday, a little less than a month before the start of ...

Pete Rose's family is petitioning MLB to remove him from the ineligibility list, which would allow him to be considered for the Hall of Fame. Rose was banned from baseball for life in 1989 for ...

Major League Baseball is leaving one of its major TV partners. ESPN confirmed Friday that it has agreed with MLB to opt out of the final three years of their TV contract. The sides agreed to a ...

After three decades of partnership, Major League Baseball and ESPN split last month. As media breakups go, it was an ugly one. ESPN told MLB it was opting out of its rights deal, ending its long ...

ESPN's coverage of Major League Baseball games — at least in its current form — will conclude at the end of the 2025 season. ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro informed baseball Commissioner Rob ...

Later, MLB released a public statement pointing to ESPN decreasing its baseball coverage but not ruling out a return: "We have had a long and mutually beneficial partnership with ESPN that dates ...

And then there is Major League Baseball. When ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro visited MLB commissioner Rob Manfred late last year, he carried a harsh message: America’s most prominent sports network ...