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| 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 |
| Links | |
| Website | MLBNetwork.com |
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 November 2023[update], MLB Network is available to approximately 31,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2013 peak of 71,000,000 households.[6]
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- ^ John Helyar (December 27, 2007). "In stare-down with Big Cable over Pats-Giants, the NFL blinked". ESPN.com. Retrieved December 27, 2007.
- ^ MLB Network Headquarters Archived December 29, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, 40°47′05″N 74°04′19″W / 40.78475°N 74.07188°W
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- ^ "U.S. cable network households (universe), 1990 – 2023". wrestlenomics.com. May 14, 2024. Retrieved July 28, 2019.