Major League Baseball and NBCUniversal introduced a
three-year media rights settlement Wednesday that returns baseball to NBC and
Peacock.
The season begins with World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers elevating their banner on March 26, 2026, earlier than an Opening Day primetime matchup with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Sunday Night Baseball on NBC/Peacock now joins NBC Sports’ displays of Sunday Night Football (NFL) and Sunday Night Basketball (NBA) to ship year-round primetime sports programming on the identical night every week – a broadcast community first.
Sunday Night Football and the NFL playoffs are showcased from September by way of January. Sunday Night Basketball and the NBA playoffs run from February by way of May. Sunday Night Baseball will overlap with the NBA however will typically be proven from April by way of August.
“We
are excited to reignite NBC Sports’ storied Major League Baseball
historical past by way of this complete and revolutionary partnership that can
honor the previous and create new traditions,” mentioned Rick Cordella, President, NBC Sports. “With the Sunday Night Baseball
bundle, NBC and Peacock at the moment are the year-round platforms for premier
Sunday night sports programming. We can’t wait to focus our
award-winning manufacturing, promotion, and storytelling on MLB’s iconic
stars, groups, and rivalries to highlight starting on March 26. Play
ball!”
“NBC has demonstrated an excellent mixture of excessive
manufacturing worth and highly effective athlete storytelling that makes MLB’s
return to the community an thrilling alternative to proceed the game’s
development,” mentioned Baseball Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. “With
NBCUniversal exhibiting nice enthusiasm for baseball, we’re trying
ahead to working collectively to proceed the game’s momentum by telling
the tales of right this moment’s proficient gamers and capturing the thrill of
our nice recreation.”
NBC
Sports has a distinguished historical past with Major League Baseball. The
first-ever MLB tv broadcast was a 1939 Cincinnati Reds-Brooklyn
Dodgers doubleheader on W2XBS (the precursor to WNBC-TV) in New York.
NBC Sports was a house to the primary World Series broadcast in 1947, the
first All-Star Game nationally broadcast in 1952, and has televised 39
World Series – greater than every other community.