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Friday Night Baseball Will Continue on Apple TV

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Apple TV subscribers will continue to have access to two Friday Night Major League Baseball games for the 2026 to 2028 seasons, Major League Baseball said today.

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There were rumors that Apple would both abandon and expand MLB coverage, but that information turned out to be inaccurate. Apple's deal with MLB remains the same, despite new rights agreements that MLB has established with Netflix, ESPN, and NBCUniversal.

Sunday Night Baseball, Sunday Leadoff, and the Wild Card Series will move from ESPN to NBC. Netflix will air the T-Mobile Home Run Derby and special games that will include the 2026 Field of Dreams Game and the World Baseball Classic in Japan. ESPN will have rights to a national midweek game package and will sell MLB.TV, MLB's out-of-market streaming service.

Fox will air the All-Star Game and regular season games, along with the World Series, League Championship Series and Division Series. TBS will air LCS and Division Series telecasts, along with regular season games on Tuesday nights.

Apple has offered Friday Night Baseball since 2022, providing a doubleheader with pregame and postgame analysis. Friday Night Baseball is free to Apple TV subscribers.

Apple will have access to Friday night games through 2028 due to a 7-year deal that was established in 2022. The 2026 season will begin on March 25, 2026, with Apple's first games to air on Friday, March 27.

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AppleCook said:
Is that two Friday night games out of many?
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I believe they meant to say that Apple TV will continue to broadcast the double headers every Friday, as they have been doing, not that it is just 2 games for the whole season.

Via MLB.com: "Apple TV will continue to stream "Friday Night Baseball" doubleheaders throughout the regular season."
 
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sjsharksfan12 said:
Good news. Apple has done better since its start and the production values are great.
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I disagree, from the standpoint of my home team the Blue Jays. They know nothing about the team or its history, and the googled tidbits they try to sprinkle during the game are often ridiculous or just stupid.

Baseball is a regional sport. They should be covered by regional broadcast teams that know their teams best.

For us Canadians, we have one broadcast cover the team for all the games, even the playoffs. All the Jays games were national games in Canada until this crap came along. I really don't know why they are forcing this crap on us. Nobody in the US gives a crap against the Jays.
 
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HiVolt said:
I disagree, from the standpoint of my home team the Blue Jays. They know nothing about the team or its history, and the googled tidbits they try to sprinkle during the game are often ridiculous or just stupid.

Baseball is a regional sport. They should be covered by regional broadcast teams that know their teams best.

For us Canadians, we have one broadcast cover the team for all the games, even the playoffs. All the Jays games were national games in Canada until this crap came along. I really don't know why they are forcing this crap on us. Nobody in the US gives a crap against the Jays.
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AppleTV MLB.tv coverage has alternate radio feeds available for both teams?
 
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HiVolt said:
I disagree, from the standpoint of my home team the Blue Jays. They know nothing about the team or its history, and the googled tidbits they try to sprinkle during the game are often ridiculous or just stupid.

Baseball is a regional sport. They should be covered by regional broadcast teams that know their teams best.

For us Canadians, we have one broadcast cover the team for all the games, even the playoffs. All the Jays games were national games in Canada until this crap came along. I really don't know why they are forcing this crap on us. Nobody in the US gives a crap against the Jays.
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Sports are really screwed up at the expense of the viewers. For NHL, we subscribe to EPSN now to see all the games...all the games EXCEPT the ones they choose to only show on TNT or Amazon Prime or some other random place we don't have access to.
 
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When watching MLB games on AppleTV, we turn on the alternate radio feed for our local radio station. We rarely listen to the AppleTV commentators (except for the pre-game coverage when the local feed is not available).
 
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HiVolt said:
I disagree, from the standpoint of my home team the Blue Jays. They know nothing about the team or its history, and the googled tidbits they try to sprinkle during the game are often ridiculous or just stupid.

Baseball is a regional sport. They should be covered by regional broadcast teams that know their teams best.

For us Canadians, we have one broadcast cover the team for all the games, even the playoffs. All the Jays games were national games in Canada until this crap came along. I really don't know why they are forcing this crap on us. Nobody in the US gives a crap against the Jays.
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Stop talking, it might come for hockey games too lmfao 🤣
 
This crap needs to stop. I buy the MLB (or NFL) package, and a bunch of games are only broadcast on separate streaming channels that you have to pay for.

Some day when the leagues get their crap in one sock, they'll come up with their own streaming packages so we real fans can see all the games -- without blackout.

-sigh-

But I dream...
 
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jjudson said:
This crap needs to stop. I buy the MLB (or NFL) package, and a bunch of games are only broadcast on separate streaming channels that you have to pay for.

Some day when the leagues get their crap in one sock, they'll come up with their own streaming packages so we real fans can see all the games -- without blackout.

-sigh-

But I dream...
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Or you can sign buy MLB.tv for the season. But don’t forget a VPN if you already can’t get in-market games for free.
 
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AppleTV MLB.tv coverage has alternate radio feeds available for both teams?
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That would require me to pay for AppleTV subscription, which I refuse to do for just six Blue Jays game per season, which costs me MORE than I pay for my home team broadcaster to watch the rest of the 156 games of the season.

I have no interest in the rest of AppleTV content.
 
I would tune into sports if I could go to one place to watch them, dividing major League baseball on different providers makes it harder for people to get into baseball and it's the same with football hockey and all other sports. Give the rights to just one provider, If ESPN has the contract for baseball then they should show all the games if Apple has MLS then they should show all the games and so on.
 
Good to know about this. Looks like there is quite a bit of sports content on Apple TV. Not sure whether the deal will be renewed in the future.
 
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I haven’t watched baseball serious since I was like 13. I watch highlights from time to time but the games are just so boring.
 
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