If you want to see all the Doders games in 2026, you are likely to need access to all these channels: Athletes Los AngelesFox, ESPN, NBC, Peacock And Apple TV.
This, let's say, is not in Fanan.
The Holy Grail Baseball is as follows: one place where you can observe your team and each team, wherever you are. One price. No dimming. No need to decide whether to pay for a subscription to the channel, which you may never watch after the end of the game.
Rob ManfredThe commissar of the baseball team does not need to be convinced of this fans. He needs to convince the owners of all 30 teams.
Since Manfred would like this store “all teams, all the time” to be launched and worked in 2029, he needs to begin to build votes among the owners. Manfred spoke about this goal for many years, and I asked him if he could say that this would really happen.
“I think that the industry is widely recognized that, given what happened among the media, we need to be more national,” Manfred told me before the meeting of Doders and Philadelphia Fillis on Monday at Citizens Bank Park.
“The idea of centralizing and providing more games on national platforms is really attractive to people. Now we still have some cards that can be played. But I retain optimism that this can happen.”
Stan Kasten, President of Dodders, does the same.
“We support the idea that all the fans can watch any game anywhere in the world and end the power outages,” said Kasten. “It requires many steps, and each team has its own situation.
“We have to go a long way, but the goal is admirable, and I think that it will benefit all the fans, and this is the most important thing.”
So far, all this sounds great. But Dodedes are not going to unconditionally refuse that fans outside Los Angeles are considered their greatest competitive advantage: money, and in large quantities.
Doders and Miluoi Briurs will meet in a series of championships of the National League. According to Sports Business Journal, this year Briurs earned about $ 35 million on local television.
This year, Dodders earn about 10 times more on fees for the rights from Charter Communications, the maternal company Spectrum, and this annual lifting fee will exceed $ 500 million by the end of the term of the charter contract in 2038. And this is not all: Doders also own Sportsnet La.
If 30 teams combined their rights to broadcast, Manfred believes that they could arouse interest not only from the traditional media, but also from the side of streamers as Apple, Peacock, Paramount and Netflix. Representatives of the league believe that the exclusivity of one package will bring a larger collective income than a combination of 30 transactions with individual commands.
Thus, theoretically, Briurs would receive much more than $ 35 million a year if the teams were divided equally. Doders will receive less, and possibly much less. So will Manfred just rely on the dooders to go together for the good of the game?
“I do not think that it is possible to make such changes based on the fact that people say that it is for the good of the game,” Manfred said. “I think that such changes occur due to the fact that people understand who they are buyers and what they want to buy and implement a set of changes that bring this closer to economic laundering.”
This means that such teams as Dodders and New York, Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cabis are still getting a lot of money against the backdrop of the collapse of regional sports networks outside of large markets, from the point of view of funds are neutral?
“Yes, and there are many ways to get there,” Manfred said.
He did not post the options menu, but the first is already clear. Collective negotiations are planned to be started next year, given the growing probability of a locaut after the 2026 season.
If the owners can achieve the ceiling of salaries (and the player’s trade union insists that it will remain), then the owners of the small market can be sure that players will receive a guaranteed but limited percentage of league income. Such confidence in the value combined with the potential for increasing income from the broadcasting package with the participation of 30 teams will probably help owners of small markets.
And this may be crucial, since at present these owners earn a decent amount of money due to the distribution of income, according to which the teams receive a percentage of money such as ticket sale, concession sales and income of local media. At the moment, this money is united and divided equally, but Manfred could offer Doders and other financial giants a chance to leave most or all this money to himself.
The league could also offer to buy Sportsnet LA and other similar channels, which would mean more money for the DODERS. And although the Doders under the current owner seems to be not interested in the ceiling of salaries, this restriction will reduce the expenses of players and, thus, increase the profit of the team.
Wild map: with Shocham Otani, Yosinobu Yamamoto, Rocky Sasaki and Heson Kim in their composition, Dodders can claim more income from the rights to international broadcasts, which are now equally divided between the teams.
Manfred has to juggle many balls. Kasten categorically refused to say that he could work for the docters.
“You delve into the area that I am too premature to discuss, except to tell you that we agree for this purpose,” he said. “The goal is good, and we hope that baseball will be able to achieve it.”
