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Apple TV+ Announces MLB Friday Night Baseball Schedule for July

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Apple and Major League Baseball this week announced the July schedule for Friday Night Baseball, a weekly doubleheader of MLB games streamed on Apple TV+.

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Friday Night Baseball is included with an Apple TV+ subscription, at no additional cost. In the U.S., Apple TV+ costs $9.99 per month or $99 per year, and it is also included in all Apple One subscription bundles with other Apple services.

The full July schedule is as follows:
Friday, 7/4
St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs
2:20 p.m. ET

Los Angeles Angels at Toronto Blue Jays
7:07 p.m. ET

Friday, 7/11
Seattle Mariners at Detroit Tigers
7:10 p.m. ET

Arizona Diamondbacks at Los Angeles Angels
9:38 p.m. ET

Friday, 7/18
No games

Friday, 7/25
Philadelphia Phillies at New York Yankees
7:05 p.m. ET

Cleveland Guardians at Kansas City Royals
8:10 p.m. ET
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Available in 60 countries, Apple says Friday Night Baseball provides enhanced production quality, expert commentary, and no local broadcast restrictions.

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Not sure what games people in the comments are watching, but Apple TV baseball games are produced by MLB Network for Apple and are of the highest video quality. plus you can choose to listen to your team's local announcers. The first season was bad, but Apple, to their credit, pivoted
 
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I really love that Apple is doing all this sports stuff. I wish there was a way to turn off all these sports notifications on my phone and ATV without loosing all other notifications at the same time.

Notifications overload!
 
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Valen1 said:
Tallest midget. Even women’s basketball outshines baseball.
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Yikes, wrong again. The average MLB attendance for this year is just over 27k. the average WNBA attendance last year was just under 10k. Let's go ahead and consider the NBA attendance numbers (18k), and MLB ranks only behind the NFL amongst the 4 major leagues, in average attendance.
 
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Still not available in my country. But honestly speaking there would be very very few people watching this here.

And cannot complain too much, Apple allows us to use the free three month offers also from the neighboring countries; I have watched ATV+ free for a year now.
 
As much as I like Apple's design language, I feel like it doesn't translate well to baseball chyrons and scoreboxes. It's too bland (lacking color) and small, and these are supposed to visually summarize information at a glance.

Glad to know I can switch to local broadcasting audio, Apple's announcers are really hit or miss for me. Also, I find it really funny that the reporter doing post-game interviews is always wearing AirPods Max.
 
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Wondering how many subscriptions you have to buy to view all the games of your favorite team?
 
jlinear said:
Wondering how many subscriptions you have to buy to view all the games of your favorite team?
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Too many. I will watch my favorite team when it is on a channel I get but am not paying for every needed service. Tried MLB TV once and was disappointed, I live close enough to a market boundary that the location of my IP would mess up and think I was in market when I was not. Different streaming services use different IP location lookups so that makes lots of issue for people in my area.

The NHL is much more affordable to watch, for only $70 a year I can get almost every game my Direct TV package. This and the fact that I am getting grandfathered pricing on Direct TV is one of the things that keeps me from switching to streaming services.

The cost of sports streaming in general is driving away there "paid" audience. They say sports viewership is down, but this is the "paid" viewership that is down, most people my age and younger use illegal streams to watch sports.
 
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jlinear said:
Wondering how many subscriptions you have to buy to view all the games of your favorite team?
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I think three.
1. Local channel broadcast
2. ESPN (I don't subscribe to this, so I miss a few games. NBD)
3. Apple TV (at least this I can subscribe on the months they play a game, then cancel)

Also some games are on FOX, but those I can use rabbit ears and watch in HD for free. So I only pay for 2 and feel I get 95-98% of all games. Not that much.
 
Plutonius said:
More fractured airing of games.

Does anyone else remember the good old days when you could watch all your market team games on one channel ?
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The good old days?

Are those the days when only a few games were broadcast on your local TV, and maybe a handful more were on Cable? And you missed about 70% of games?

Or was it the good old days more recent where you had a local channel, a local cable channel, ESPN, FOX, TBS, TNT, FOX SPORTS ONE, etc??

When was it all on one channel? Did I miss that?
 
Moonlight said:
The good old days?

Are those the days when only a few games were broadcast on your local TV, and maybe a handful more were on Cable? And you missed about 70% of games?

Or was it the good old days more recent where you had a local channel, a local cable channel, ESPN, FOX, TBS, TNT, FOX SPORTS ONE, etc??

When was it all on one channel? Did I miss that?
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I used to watch almost all of the Red Sox games over the air on WSBK channel 38.

I guess it was a rhetorical question seeing how the younger audience did not get to experience it.
 
Plutonius said:
I used to watch almost all of the Red Sox games over the air on WSBK channel 38.

I guess it was a rhetorical question seeing how the younger audience did not get to experience it.
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I've been watching the Dodgers since the 70's and we only had 19 game broadcast in 1973 over the air on KTTV, and then in the 90's like 70% of games over the air on KTLA. Maybe Red Sox fans were luckier. :)
 
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