February 3Feb 3 MLB To Take Over Broadcasts For Six Additional Teams - MLB Trade RumorsMajor League Baseball will take over the broadcasts of six new teams in 2026, reports John Ourand of Puck. The six clubs are the Brewers, Marlins, Rays, Royals, Cardinals and Reds.Barry Jackson does a great job breaking down how the Marlins are handling this process and what new viewing packages may look like....Marlins moves games off FanDuel. How to watch games this year | Miami HeraldThe Marlins and five other teams are making this move to make sure their games have a home amid FanDuel’s uncertainty. The Marlins terminated their deal with FanDuel after Main Street missed a payment to the team on Jan. 1, The Miami Herald reported last month. Under the new MLB Media package, fans will be able to stream Marlins games on Marlins.tv for an undetermined cost. The cost will be determined in the coming days, because subscriptions are expected to go on sale on Feb. 10. Comcast, which is South Florida’s largest cable provider, will air Marlins games on a channel with no content otherwise. That channel number has not yet been determined. DirecTV is expected to add a stand-alone MLB-operated channel to carry Marlins games that will be unrelated to its Extra Innings package. DirecTV markets that product as MyHome Team and has charged $19.99 per month in other markets where MLB teams previously began televising their games through MLB Media’s arm. MLB media also has a deal to stream Marlins games on Charter, Cox and Fubo.....Also, fans with a Marlins.TV subscription can watch Marlins games through the MLB app, but they will need to order Marlins games through Marlins.TV for access to those games on the MLB app. Fans with an MLB TV subscription will need to replace that with a Marlins.TV subscription to watch Marlins games. Simply having an MLB.TV subscription won’t provide access to Marlins games in South Florida......In addition to the 157 or so games offered through the MLB local media package, the Marlins likely will continue simulcasting some games on an over-the-air network. Last season, CBS 4 and WBFS 33 combined to carry 15 games and they’re contenders to retain a modest over-the-air simulcast package this season.The Marlins considered moving most their games to Scripps (Channel 39 in South Florida) but opted for the MLB local media package instead, according to a source. But Scripps, which carries most Panthers games, is in the running for a limited package of Marlins games that are simulcast.The Marlins would like to retain their game announcers, but they will need to work out new contracts with them in the coming days because they had been FanDuel employees, making their Marlins contracts null and void.Instead of receiving an up-front and regular rights fees payments from FanDuel, the Marlins now will receive a modest base payment from MLB and will supplement that by retaining revenue from ad and subscription sales. The Marlins have never said how much FanDuel paid them for games, but Sports Business Journal has reported that annual fee to be in the $50 million range in recent years -- one of the lowest rights fees in baseball.Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article314546258.html#storylink=cpy
February 3Feb 3 44 minutes ago, rmc523 said:The Marlins would like to retain their game announcers, but they will need to work out new contracts with them in the coming days because they had been FanDuel employees, making their Marlins contracts null and void.I feel like they are going to reduce the amount of them.
February 3Feb 3 Author 40 minutes ago, Admin said:I feel like they are going to reduce the amount of them.Yeah, don't think they needed 87 people.One of the things they also mentioned was that I guess these MLB broadcasts don't have much pre or post came coverage, which would let them drop a few people too (i.e. keep Craig, drop some of the others, etc).Rod and Jeff can go, IMO, off the top of my head.
February 3Feb 3 1 hour ago, rmc523 said:Yeah, don't think they needed 87 people.One of the things they also mentioned was that I guess these MLB broadcasts don't have much pre or post came coverage, which would let them drop a few people too (i.e. keep Craig, drop some of the others, etc).Rod and Jeff can go, IMO, off the top of my head.Keep Tommy for as many games as he is willing to do and have 1 other guy (not sure who) for the rest of them. 2 analysts is more than enough.
February 3Feb 3 Author 26 minutes ago, Admin said:Keep Tommy for as many games as he is willing to do and have 1 other guy (not sure who) for the rest of them. 2 analysts is more than enough.100% agree - Give Tommy most of the home games and have someone else that's not Rod or Jeff do the rest.
February 3Feb 3 Sielaff for allTommy for homeJeff for road (sorry rmc)I feel like Kyle and Jeff had the best chemistry among the pairings.No more Rod. Gaby was OK in spurts.
February 4Feb 4 Author 15 hours ago, Michael said:Sielaff for allTommy for homeJeff for road (sorry rmc)I feel like Kyle and Jeff had the best chemistry among the pairings.No more Rod. Gaby was OK in spurts.I'd be fine with Jeff if it means no more Rod. He's just not good all around.
February 4Feb 4 Bummed to not be able to watch the Fish this year. Watch the team be fun again and competing for a postseason spot too.
February 4Feb 4 9 hours ago, rmc523 said:I'd be fine with Jeff if it means no more Rod. He's just not good all around.This is fair.7 hours ago, SilverBullet said:Heard this from his wife?(Eddie Izzard voice) I AM his wife!
February 5Feb 5 Easy enough for me. Still refuse to watch any of their games until Bruce spends on the team. Year two of zero games coming in! Woo. Go fuck off and die Bruce.
February 5Feb 5 59 minutes ago, hovertical said:Easy enough for me. Still refuse to watch any of their games until Bruce spends on the team. Year two of zero games coming in! Woo. Go fuck off and die Bruce.You missed an exciting team then.... ya know what, keep not watching! Thank you for your sacrifice.
February 5Feb 5 Author 1 hour ago, hovertical said:Easy enough for me. Still refuse to watch any of their games until Bruce spends on the team. Year two of zero games coming in! Woo. Go fuck off and die Bruce.The only way I'll probably end up getting this is if my dad wants it for their place. He's not very tech savvy so I'd set it up.We'll have to see how pricing ends up looking.
February 5Feb 5 7 hours ago, Michael said:You missed an exciting team then.... ya know what, keep not watching! Thank you for your sacrifice.Perfectly fine not getting attached to the next wave of guys that become too expensive for Bruce. I'm imagining Bruce having to pay Skubal 32mil in arbitration
February 5Feb 5 1 hour ago, hovertical said:Perfectly fine not getting attached to the next wave of guys that become too expensive for Bruce.I'm imagining Bruce having to pay Skubal 32mil in arbitrationDaddy Dix would have traded him to LA for their top 67 prospects.
February 20Feb 20 Author 5 hours ago, Admin said:Well that's already an improvement!59 minutes ago, marlinsmaniac said:Wait so who’s the actual play by play guy?I'd assume still Kyle Sielaff.
February 20Feb 20 1 hour ago, rmc523 said:Well that's already an improvement!I'd assume still Kyle Sielaff.Thanks, I don’t watch the games locally since I don’t have cable and I was blacked out previously so I don’t even know who that is 😂
February 20Feb 20 9 minutes ago, marlinsmaniac said:Thanks, I don’t watch the games locally since I don’t have cable and I was blacked out previously so I don’t even know who that is 😂Used to be radio guy til Severino got let go.Honestly, I liked Paul, and Kyle has been a big improvement. 7 hours ago, Admin said:This is basically exactly what I wanted? Kyle and Tommy for as many home games as possible, Kyle and Jeff for as many road games as possible, and no Rod.Huh. They listened, maybe? Kinda?Editing in - someone actually said we should get Dontrelle in the booth and now I hate every other option. Kyle and Dontrelle full time would be immaculate vibes, could even rival Rich and Tommy.
February 20Feb 20 Author 2 hours ago, marlinsmaniac said:Thanks, I don’t watch the games locally since I don’t have cable and I was blacked out previously so I don’t even know who that is 😂Ha, he was the guy last year and came over from the radio side, and while I haven't watched a lot, he seemed to have more of that "hometown" vibe that I always felt Paul was missing.1 hour ago, Michael said:Used to be radio guy til Severino got let go.Honestly, I liked Paul, and Kyle has been a big improvement. This is basically exactly what I wanted? Kyle and Tommy for as many home games as possible, Kyle and Jeff for as many road games as possible, and no Rod.Huh. They listened, maybe? Kinda?Editing in - someone actually said we should get Dontrelle in the booth and now I hate every other option. Kyle and Dontrelle full time would be immaculate vibes, could even rival Rich and Tommy.Paul did get better over the years, but I still felt he had more of a "national coverage" sound to him than the hometown guy calling a game.This will be a better combo going forward without Rod, but yeah, Dontrelle would be fun.
March 26Mar 26 For those of us that still have cable, specifically Spectrum (is that a thing in Miami?) we now have a channel in the lineup called "Miami Marlins." It's off air right now but shows tomorrow's game in the 7PM timeslot. Anyone with a different cable company seeing anything similar?
March 26Mar 26 3 hours ago, mrchainsaw said:For those of us that still have cable, specifically Spectrum (is that a thing in Miami?) we now have a channel in the lineup called "Miami Marlins." It's off air right now but shows tomorrow's game in the 7PM timeslot. Anyone with a different cable company seeing anything similar?https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article314766747.htmlIf you don't wanna pay: view-source:https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article314766747.htmlDo Find In Page and search for Baseball broadcasting.I don't know if I'm allowed to post a whole article, but here it is:Baseball broadcasting has come a long way over six decades, from fans gathering around their televisions for a “Game of the Week” on Saturday afternoons... to watching your team on some obscure “independent” free TV channel that required rabbit ear antennas… to subscribing to cable or satellite television and finding your team on the convenient, but ultimately unsustainable, “regional sports network.”</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>This week, the Marlins officially enter a new frontier, presenting their games via a mix of streaming and stand-alone channels on five cable and satellite providers.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>For the Marlins, it’s a move borne out of necessity; the financially-strapped FanDuel Sports networks - two in Florida and more than a dozen elsewhere - remain on life support, and the Marlins knew they had to move their games after FanDuel missed a Jan. 1 rights payment to the team.</p><div id="zone-el-101" class="zone zone-el" index="2" issportsarticle="true" stnplayerkill="true" allowstnplayer="true"></div><!--]--><!--[--><p>In recent years, MLB created a local media arm for teams that no longer have a viable regional sports channel option in their markets. The Marlins are one of 10 teams that have left FanDuel in recent months.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>So when the Marlins open their season at 7:10 p.m. on Friday at home against Colorado, all fans with Internet service will have at least one way to watch the games. Many fans will have multiple ways. If you have broadband or decent internet service, you can watch the games by ordering a monthly or full-season package on Marlins.TV.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>A subscription for access to those 157 games will be $19.99 per month or $99.99 for the season; Marlins season-ticket holders get half price off the season rate. Viewers with a Smart TV or Firestick can stream those games on their televisions, though fans who are technologically-challenged might need help from a friend or relative.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>The Marlins are offering two free tickets to an April home game of your choice as a carrot for signing up for the season package on Marlins.TV.</p><div class="zone grid combo"><div id="zone-el-104" class="cap-width zone-el"></div><div id="zone-el-105" class="cap-width zone zone-el"></div></div><!--]--><!--[--><p>▪ Five cable and satellite providers signed up to provide the games on a stand-alone channel that will carry Marlins games and pre-game and postgame shows but go black the rest of the time.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>Those five are Comcast Xfinity (with games airing on channel 1261), DirecTV (channel 655 for both streaming and satellite homes), Cox (66), AT&T U-verse (1718) and Charter Spectrum, which will carry games on channel 360 in its South Florida digital homes (primarily Miami Beach) but on different channels in homes in Orlando, Tampa and few other markets upstate. (Go to <a target="_blank" rel="Follow" href="https://www.mlb.com/marlins/schedule/programming">Marlins.com/watch</a> for more information.)</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>▪ DirecTV and Comcast say if you already are paying for the sports tier necessary to receive the FanDuel networks and other sports channels, there is no additional charge to receive Marlins games. MLB and the Marlins say their understanding is that there also won’t be an additional charge to watch Marlins games on Charter/Spectrum, Cox and AT&T U-Verse▪ Streaming service FuboTV also struck a deal to carry Marlins games. There will be no extra charge, per the Marlins.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>▪ Six major South Florida cable/satellite providers did not strike deals to carry Marlins games by a Thursday deadline: Breezeline (which services North Miami Beach, Aventura, Sunny Isles and other pockets of Dade and Broward), YouTube TV, Dish Network, Blustream, Hulu and Hotwire.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>Of those six, Breezline, Bluestream and Hotwire carried the games last year through FanDuel, but did not agree to a deal to carry the games this season. YouTube TV, Hulu and Dish did not carry FanDuel and thus did not provide Marlins games in recent years.</p><div id="zone-el-107" class="zone zone-el" index="14" issportsarticle="true" stnplayerkill="true" allowstnplayer="true"></div><!--]--><!--[--><p>Subscribers of those six services have the option of streaming the games through Marlins.TV.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>▪ The Marlins are negotiating with CBS-4 and CW-33 to simulcast the maximum permitted 10 games. They’re also talking with Telemundo about simulcasting a few games with Spanish audio.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>▪ Because MLB team’s broadcast territories are geographically larger than those for NBA and NHL teams, everyone who lives in Florida will be able to receive Marlins games through Marlins.TV, Fubo or the five aforementioned cable/satellite providers that signed up. Out-of-market Marlins fans can sign up to get Marlins games through MLB.TV. The cost for the single-team package through MLB.TV is the same as the cost through Marlins.TV: $99.99 for the season or $19.99 per month.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>Marlins fans in Florida can gain access to games for the 29 other teams, besides the Marlins, by paying an additional $100 for the season-long bundle package available on Marlins.TV.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>DirecTV will continue to offer its Extra Innings package for fans who want access to out-of-market games but do not want to stream them.</p><div id="zone-el-109" class="zone zone-el" index="20" issportsarticle="true" stnplayerkill="true" allowstnplayer="true"></div><!--]--><!--[--><p>▪ Games won’t look any different than they have on FanDuel Sports Florida, with a couple of exceptions: There won’t be a separate road postgame show and home postgame shows will be shorter. And you will be seeing less of Rod Allen and Craig Minervini and more of Craig Mish, Tommy Hutton and Jeff Nelson.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>Allen, who has called as many as 50 games in recent years, was moved to a TV studio and radio analyst role. Nelson (69 games), Hutton (60) and Gaby Sanchez (28 games) will share game analyst duties alongside Kyle Sielaff. Hutton, 80, is retiring after this season.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>Minervini, who hosted more than half of Marlins studio shows in past years, will split anchor duties with Mish, whose role expands.</p><div id="zone-el-110" class="zone zone-el" index="23" issportsarticle="true" stnplayerkill="true" allowstnplayer="true"></div><!--]--><!--[--><p>The Marlins are one of more than a dozen teams that are using MLB’s media arm to stream their games. By 2028, nearly all teams are expected to go that route.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><h2 class="h2">Network changes</h2><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>Though Fox is retaining rights to a Saturday package, a league championship series and the World Series, MLB’s national TV landscape also is changing. What to know:</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>▪ NBC, which carried Major League Baseball from 1957 to 2000, essentially gets what had been the ESPN package (Sunday night games and the first round of the playoffs), plus the only prime-time game on the second day of the season (Dodgers-Arizona on March 26), a Labor Day night game and rights to air every MLB game regionally on July 5.</p><div id="zone-el-111" class="zone zone-el" index="27" issportsarticle="true" stnplayerkill="true" allowstnplayer="true"></div><!--]--><!--[--><p>NBC’s acquisition of the Sunday MLB package will give the network live sports on nearly every Sunday night all year. Sunday night games will stream on Peacock when NBC has NBA or NFL games on those days. All of NBC’s MLB games will stream on Peacock and also will air on NBC’s sports cable channel, NBCSN, which was shuttered at the end of 2021 but relaunched earlier this year.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>Also notable: NBC, NBCSN and Peacock will carry the MLB Draft on July 11 and the All-Star Futures Game on July 12.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>Former Fox college football and Chicago White Sox announcer Jason Benetti will call NBC’s Sunday night games with a local analyst. And longtime NBC signature voice Bob Costas, who gave up MLB play by play duties with Turner and MLB Network a year ago, will co-host NBC’s brief pre-game show as part of his “emeritus” role with the network.</p><div id="zone-el-112" class="zone zone-el" index="30" issportsarticle="true" stnplayerkill="true" allowstnplayer="true"></div><!--]--><!--[--><p>▪ As part of MLB’s new $200-million-a-year deal with Peacock and NBC, Peacock will regain rights to a package of Sunday late-morning/noon games, which it carried in 2022 and 2023.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>Those 18 “Sunday Leadoff” games will be followed by an MLB Network-produced “whip-around” coverage of all of the day’s games. Peacock will also regularly feature an MLB “Game of the Day,” which will be available to fans outside the markets of the clubs competing.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>▪ ESPN replaced Sunday Night Baseball and its wild card games with a 30-game package that includes some weeknight games over the course of the season, Memorial Day games and games on the first day after the All-Star break.</p><div id="zone-el-113" class="zone zone-el" index="33" issportsarticle="true" stnplayerkill="true" allowstnplayer="true"></div><!--]--><!--[--><p>▪ More significantly, ESPN’s new MLB deal includes a new and valuable component: Rights to stream out-of-market games. Thousands of games now will stream live on the ESPN App, and also will continue to be available on MLB platforms (including MLB.TV) in 2026. That out-of-market package costs $150 this season and is expected to be similarly priced next year.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>Also, ESPN will also offer more than 150 out-of-market regular season games every day all season as part of a new “Game of the Day” for subscribers to the ESPN Unlimited plan.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>▪ TBS will continue to air a regular-season package on Tuesdays and a league championship series each year.</p><div id="zone-el-114" class="zone zone-el" index="36" issportsarticle="true" stnplayerkill="true" allowstnplayer="true"></div><!--]--><!--[--><p>▪ Apple will continue streaming Friday night MLB double-headers through 2028.</p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><p>▪ Netflix agreed to pay about $50 million annually for a package that includes exclusive rights to the opening night game (Giants-Yankees on Wednesday), the Home Run Derby, the Field of Dreams game and the World Baseball Classic in 2026.My cable company (Hotwire) missed the deadline.☹️So it won't be until at least next season that the Marlins will have a new proper TV home? Or is it gonna be like this from now on? We're shifting away from linear TV to streaming anyway. Although I prefer linear TV. Maybe I'm just a Luddite.A ghetto team on bootleg channels.😂 Edited March 26Mar 26 by Rusty Shackelford
March 26Mar 26 Author 1 hour ago, Rusty Shackelford said:https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article314766747.htmlIf you don't wanna pay: view-source:https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article314766747.htmlDo Find In Page and search for Baseball broadcasting.I don't know if I'm allowed to post a whole article, but here it is:My cable company (Hotwire) missed the deadline.☹️So it won't be until at least next season that the Marlins will have a new proper TV home? Or is it gonna be like this from now on? We're shifting away from linear TV to streaming anyway. Although I prefer linear TV. Maybe I'm just a Luddite.A ghetto team on bootleg channels.😂I think it'll be like this for the foreseeable future.I think MLB has structured all of the deals to end in 2028, and I think they're trying to bundle everything (all teams) to someone as a whole....whether that's regular cable or a streaming service, who knows.
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