Home run by Sport1. The German platform specialized in sports programming has announced a long-term agreement with the baseball competition Major League Baseball (MLB) to gain television rights for the next five seasons. The announcement comes at a time of long-term partnerships, after last May Disney broke the piggy bank to continue investing in sports and reached agreements with MLB, LaLiga and NFL.
Sport1 will broadcast the matches of the Major League Baseball in countries such as Germany, Austria and Switzerland from 2022 to 2026, with exclusive rights to broadcast meetings on both the paid and free platforms of the television company.
In total they will be broadcast live until 500 games per season in Sport1, Sport1 + and Sport1 Extra. At least 150 games per regular season and 15 on the free Sport1 radio station will be broadcast on the paid multisport platform Sport1 Extra and on Sport1 +. In the middle of the season, the events All-Star Game and The Home Run Derby they will be broadcast live on free-to-air television. In Sport 1+ and Sport1 Extra, post-season matches such as the Wild Card Round, Division Series, Championship Series and the World Series. The playoffs they will also be broadcast free-to-air.
The agreement comes at a time of long-term contracts between Disney and competitions such as LaLiga, NFL and MLB
Disney announced in May the signing of an agreement with LaLiga for the rights of Spanish soccer in the United States until the 2028-2029 season. after signing a contract valued at $ 1.4 billion ($ 175 million per season).
Disney did not miss the rights of the Major League Baseball. The company then announced downward renewal of baseball competition rights, for which it will maintain the retransmission of the Sunday Night Baseball until 2028. Disney paid $ 5.6 billion for rights to the baseball league at a rate of 700 million over the last eight years. Under the agreement, the subscription is $ 575 million per season, a total of $ 4 billion over the next seven years.
Espn, controlled by Disney, broadcasts thirty MLB games per regular season live per year, including 25 meetings of the Sunday Night Baseball and exclusive rights to a five-game weekday roster that includes the nationwide broadcast of Opening Night.
Capital Cities / ABC, owner of 80% of Espn, was bought by Disney in 1996 for 19,000 million dollars, according New York Times. Espn is one of the classic radio stations of reference in the sports sector in the United States, in a market that increasingly has more operators interested in becoming protagonists, such as platforms of streaming and the services over-the-top (THERE).
In April of this year, Disney also announced a ten-season deal with the Nations Footbal League (NFL), his biggest contract, for $ 27 billion, $ 2.7 billion per season.
Days before, The American company also reached a seven-season agreement with the Nations Hockey League (NHL) and although the financial terms of the contract were not disclosed, the value is between 2,000 million and 2,500 million dollars.
