MLB Local Media

MLB Local Media is a division of Major League Baseball that produces and distributes regional television broadcasts for various MLB teams. Established prior to the 2023 season, and leveraging resources from MLB Network, the division has primarily served teams who no longer had a broadcaster due to business issues affecting their regional sports network rightsholders, including the then-ongoing bankruptcy of Diamond Sports Group (now Main Street Sports Group)—owner of FanDuel Sports Network (formerly Bally Sports), and the dismantling of AT&T SportsNet.

The division began operations in earnest on May 31, 2023, when it took over broadcast rights to the San Diego Padres after Diamond missed a payment to the team; the new MLB productions would maintain the team-contracted staff (including commentators) and freelance employees who worked the team's telecasts on Bally Sports San Diego. It would also take over rights to the Arizona Diamondbacks later in the season, after Diamond opted out of its contract with the team. The Colorado Rockies were added in the 2024 season after the closure of AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, and it began to produce the national package MLB Sunday Leadoff for The Roku Channel. It added the rights to the Cleveland Guardians and Minnesota Twins beginning in the 2025 season, and took over production of Seattle Mariners telecasts on behalf of Root Sports Northwest.

MLB Local Media regional broadcasts are distributed via ad-hoc agreements with television providers in each team's home market, as well as over-the-top (OTT) subscription packages hosted by MLB.tv (branded under names such as Padres.tv and DBacks.tv), available separately from MLB.tv's out-of-market service. Beginning in the 2025 season, MLB Local Media also began to syndicate packages of broadcasts to terrestrial television stations in the teams' local markets.