Major League Baseball on NBC
| Major League Baseball on NBC | |
|---|---|
Major League Baseball on NBC logo circa 1999. | |
| Also known as | Sunday Afternoon Baseball MLB Sunday Leadoff Sunday Night Baseball The NBC Game of the Week Baseball Night in America |
| Genre | American baseball game telecasts |
| Directed by | Harry Coyle Ted Nathanson John Gonzalez Doug Grabert Bucky Gunts Andy Rosenberg |
| Presented by | Various commentators |
| Theme music composer | Randy Edelman Kevin Gavin Clark Gault Steve Martin Scott Schreer Mitch & Ira Yuspeh |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 53 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Scotty Connal Don Ohlmeyer Michael Weisman Terry O'Neill Dick Ebersol Tom Roy |
| Producers | David Neal Roy Hammerman George Finkel John J. Filippelli Kenneth Roy Edmundson Les Dennis |
| Cinematography | Tom Adza Jim Bragg Eric A. Eisenstein Rick Fox Lou Gerard Steve Gonzalez Dave Hage Thomas K. Hogan Cory Leible Vaughn Kilgore Jim Lynch Tim O'Neill Albert Rice, Jr. Luis Rojas Nick Utley |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 210 minutes or until game ends (inc. adverts) |
| Production company | NBC Sports |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | September 30, 1947 – October 9, 1989 |
| Network | The Baseball Network (ABC and NBC) |
| Release | July 12, 1994 – October 28, 1995 |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | July 9, 1996 – October 17, 2000 |
| Network | NBC Peacock |
| Release | May 8, 2022 – September 3, 2023 |
| Network | NBC NBCSN Peacock Telemundo, TeleXitos and Universo (Spanish audio/broadcast) |
| Release | March 26, 2026 |
| Related | |
| Sunday Afternoon Baseball MLB Sunday Leadoff Sunday Night Baseball Major League Baseball: An Inside Look Monday Night Baseball Major League Baseball Game of the Week | |
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Major League Baseball on NBC (also known as MLB on NBC and NBC MLB) is an American presentation of Major League Baseball (MLB) games produced by NBC Sports, and televised on the NBC television network, its cable channel NBCSN and streaming service Peacock.
Major League Baseball games first aired on NBC from 1947 to 1989, including The NBC Game of the Week, when CBS acquired the broadcast television rights.
Games returned to NBC in 1994 as part of The Baseball Network, a time-brokered package of broadcasts produced by Major League Baseball and split with ABC. After The Baseball Network folded after the 1995 season, NBC retained a smaller package through 2000, alternating rights to a package of postseason games with Fox (with NBC carrying the National League Championship Series and World Series in odd-numbered years, and the American League Championship Series and All-Star Game in even-numbered years).
The Comcast SportsNet regional sports networks became part of NBC Sports after Comcast acquired NBCUniversal in 2011; they currently hold rights to the Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies, and San Francisco Giants.
For the first time since 2000, regular season baseball returned to NBC in 2022 after the network agreed to a deal with the league for MLB Sunday Leadoff. One game per season would air on NBC, with the remainder of the games on the streaming service Peacock. This deal was short lived, with the contract ending after the 2023 season.
Major League Baseball announced a new national media rights agreement with NBC covering broadcasts and streaming from 2026 to 2028. The deal includes NBC taking over broadcasts of Sunday Night Baseball and the Wild Card round from ESPN, with the return of MLB Sunday Leadoff to Peacock starting March 26, 2026.