This Just CONFIRMED What We All Feared… | Major Padres Update

This Just CONFIRMED What We All Feared… | Major Padres Update

This just confirmed what we all feared, major Padre streaming rights update, as this could totally change the future of the Padres’s in a very specific way for multiple reasons, but let’s talk about it, right? Hi, welcome back to another episode of Padres’s Digest with your host Andrew. Today we’re talking about once again ESPN streaming rights deal. I know I literally just talked about this yesterday uh and I emphasized that hey, nothing has been finalized. Guess what? It’s been finalized. Could I have waited an extra day? Probably. But you know me, I like being up to date with this information for you guys. So, now we have a longer video for you. So, if you already watched the last one, it’s still relatively the same stuff, but I want to talk more in detail about what’s going to happen cuz I didn’t know exactly what was going to happen yesterday, but now we have a pretty good idea of what’s going to happen, what’s going to change for streaming Padres’s games. Before we get too deep into it though, please subscribe as always. Uh, and yeah, let’s just jump into some stuff, right? I have an art. I have a couple of uh excerpts. Is that how you say excerpts from articles? Just yell at me. I’m horrible at words. But first, MLB’s rights from 2026 to 2028. So, ESPN will have MLB TV 30 games, Little League Classic. Also, please apply if you would like. NBC and Peacock are finally, I don’t say finally back, but they’re back streaming baseball. Sunday Night Baseball cuz ESPN lost that. Draft blah blah blah blah blah. Netflix has blah blah blah blah. You can read it if you want. That doesn’t really matter to us. But the important one is that ESPN now has a streaming rights for MLB TV and MLB ESPN finalized deal to stream the Padres’s games in 2026. And I have a little bit of that from the article from Jeff Sanders. As expected, among the TV deals that Major League Baseball announced Wednesday is an agreement giving ESPN rights to inmarket Padre games as well as out ofarket games for all 30 teams that had been streamed as part of MLB.TV. TV. What does that mean to San Diego? For at least the 2026 season, subscribers to Padres’s.tv can autorenew subscriptions on the platforms that streamed games this year. ESPN’s new app could ultimately offer different bundling opportunities later in the year and in subsequent seasons. Meantime, linear cable/satellite options will continue to be offered as they have since the advent of Padres’s TV. So, what it seems like from this is that for at least next season, we’ll still be using Padres’s TV, just purchasing it through ESPN, which I think is what they’re saying. If I’m wrong, feel free to let me know, but I feel like that’s what they’re saying, right? So, ESPN again, there we go. 26 incomes exclusive rights holder for thousands of games every season. Uh, so including us amongst other teams of course, but there will be an option for Padre fans in San Diego to get the broadcast next year whether or not they purchase other ESPN or MLB TV subscriptions, which is about the best outcome fans could have hoped for. Still unknown the impact on team revenue. So I did look I did Google AI question this. Uh, so I don’t know how exact it is cuz again it’s Google AI, Google Gemini, but maybe it’ll give you a good idea. I compared it to how the Dodgers have a billion dollar deal with uh Time Warner. So that’s why you’ll see this. But specific figures on the revenue received by individual teams from the ESPN streaming deal have not been publicly disclosed. Actually, let me make this into a graphic so you guys can read it better. Give me one sec. Okay, hopefully that’s a little bit better for you. I know it’s not perfect, but hopefully a little better. Specific figures on the revenue received by individual teams from the ESPN streaming deal have not been publicly disclosed. Local television rights revenue is traditionally not shared equally amongst MLB and sources indicate that ESPN’s deal will operate differently from the Dodgers arrangement which had been a major point of discussion in past due to its scale and structure. While the exact amounts are unknown, here is what has been reported about MLB’s revenue sharing and new media deals. National TV deals, national media revenue, including the $550 million ESPN will pay annually, is pulled and distributed equally amongst the 30 teams. Uh, so if you want to do the math on that, maybe I can do the math on that. Let me see. Hey Google, what’s 550 million divided by 30? Result of 550 million divided by 30 is $18,333. So let’s say 19 million. Thank you Google. $19 million. Uh MLB.tv revenue. Revenue from MLB.tv will now now a part of the ESPN deal is centrally managed by MLB and divided among teams through revenue sharing. Local rights and revenue sharing unlike national broadcast deals. Individual teams generally locate typically general generate local television revenue. Under the 2020 collective bargaining agreements, team pulled 80 48% of their local revenue for distribution among all teams. Still can’t read for some reason. And then Dodgers unique deal. The Dodgers massive 25-year TV deal with Time Warner valued at over 7 billion has historically allowed the team to keep a significant portion of the revenue. This was made possible by the structure of the deal which some criticize as a way to minim minimize revenue sharing obligations. Different revenue streams for six teams. In the case of the six teams, Guardians, Padres’s, Mariners, Twins, Diamondbacks, and Rockies, whose in-market streaming rights were acquired by ESPN, they will receive revenue differently than teams for their own regional sports network, but the amount has not been revealed. For example, the Cleveland Guardians were previously selling their own streaming packages before this deal. So, basically, we don’t know how much we’re going to make out of this deal. I’m hoping it’s more than MLB would give us, not that ESPN actually paid for our rights. Uh, well, I don’t know if it’s exactly paid for our rights or just paid for MLB TV rights in general. Uh, I I I think they paid for only the ones who do not have so whatever those six teams were that do not have streaming rights. But I’m hoping that means ESPN, the multi-cadillion dollar conglomerate, will at least pony up some cash for us. Nothing, again, nothing for sure, but once things be happen for sure and things get announced, I’m sure I’ll make another short on it. But just one more little thing I wanted to read for you guys, a quote and some other stuff from one of the uh ESPN people, but this is from MLB.com. I didn’t see who write it or who wrote it, but this is what they said. ESPN has secured the rights to sell and distribute MLB TV, the league’s out ofmarket streaming service across ESPN’s industryleading digital and streaming platforms. I wouldn’t agree with that. I hate ESPN apps, but whatever. Starting with the 2026 season, fans will now be able to purchase and watch their favorite teams games outside of their home territory on MLB.tv through ESPN. In 2025, MLB TV set a record of blah blah blah blah. We don’t really care about that. ESPN has secured the right over the team to ser over the term to sell and distribute via ESPN app, MLB network, and inmarket games for the select MLB teams whose games are being produced and distributed by the league. Fans will have the ability to purchase these subscriptions either independently or as part of a bundle with MLB TV or package with an ESPN subscription. For the 2026 season, the local in-market streaming products will continue to be available through MLB’s platforms. This fan-friendly agreement allows us to showcase the great sport of baseball on both a local and national level while prioritizing our streaming future, said Jimmy Pitaro, chairman of ESPN. MLB TV is a coveted must have companion app or companion for passionate MLB fans all over the country and it will be strongly complemented by our national game package and inmarket team rights all within the ESPN app. So yeah, it looks like for at least next season, it doesn’t say anything about next next season 2027 all that stuff, but at least for next season we can buy MLB TV like Padres’s TV how we have been since whenever we lost a deal or Bali Sports went under. Uh, but after that, we don’t know. I’m still under the impression that ESPN’s going to be like, “Hey, pay for our app and you can watch some baseball and then I have to pay for crappy ESPN Plus or whatever it’s called nowadays.” Uh, which I hate. So, at least next year we’ll be happy. We can still uh we can still b uh buy through ESPN MLB.tv. I really hope they don’t give us those crappy ESPN Sunday Night Baseball graphics cuz I hated those. I anything ESPN baseball I absolutely hate the graphics, the score bugs, anything. I hope to God we don’t have that. I’m assuming we probably will, but I hope we don’t. Uh, but yeah, let me know how you guys feel. Do you think this is a good thing only if ESPN gives us more money than what we would normally get, or do you just hate the whole thing in general? Do you wish someone else would have picked this up, or do you wish you would have stayed as Padres’s TV? Let me know how you guys feel. Do you have any questions? I’ll try my best to answer, but again, I don’t know everything yet, but this is everything that I understood. Does that make sense? But yeah, thank you guys so much for watching. Have a fantastic rest of your day, and as always, please subscribe. Go Padres’s. Goodbye. I hate ESPN, but give us

Today, Andrew McFarland talks again about the new ESPN deal, which will be the new home of Padres games, while also mentioning how to watch and what it means for the Padres’ future…

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