American television sports channel dedicated to baseball
Television channel
MLB Network
Country
United States
Broadcast area
United States Puerto Rico Canada Latin America Caribbean Europe Philippines
Headquarters
One MLB Network Plaza, Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.
Programming
Language(s)
English and Spanish
Picture format
720p (HDTV) (downgraded to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner
Major League Baseball (67%) TNT Sports (16.67%) Each of 5.44% owned by: Charter Communications Cox Communications NBC Sports Group
Sister channels
MLB Network Radio NHL Network NBA TV Motor Trend
History
Launched
January 1, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-01-01)
Links
Website
MLBNetwork.com
The MLB Network is an American television sports channel dedicated to baseball. It is primarily owned by Major League Baseball,[1] with TNT Sports, Comcast's NBC Sports Group, Charter Communications, and Cox Communications having minority ownership.[2]
The channel's headquarters and studios are located at their leased facilities in Secaucus, New Jersey,[3] a building owned by Hartz Mountain Industries[4] which formerly housed MSNBC's studios. MLB Network's studios also house NHL Network, which came under the management of MLB Advanced Media in mid-2015 and transferred most operations from the network's former Toronto home base.
Tony Petitti, former executive producer of CBS Sports, was named the network's first president. Petitti served as MLB Network's president until December 2014, when he was appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball. Rob McGlarry, who worked as Senior and later Executive Vice-president of Business Affairs at MLB Network since 2009, was named the network's second president.[5]
As of February 2015, MLB Network was available to approximately 70.0 million households (60.1% of subscription television customers) in the United States.[6] As of June 2023[update], the channel was available in 41.6 million homes.[7]
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^Robert Seidman (June 4, 2023). "How many homes the sports networks are available in". Internet Compost.
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