Major League Baseball’s national TV landscape is undergoing one of its biggest shifts in decades for the 2026 season, as the league rolls out new media-rights deals that dramatically reshape where fans will find marquee matchups.

After more than 30 years as the home of Sunday Night Baseball, ESPN’s run with the flagship package ends following the 2025 season. NBC — along with its Peacock streaming service — has reclaimed the rights to Sunday night games as part of a new three-year agreement that also includes early-season Opening Day showcases, MLB Sunday Leadoff afternoon games, and exclusive coverage of the Wild Card round.

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The reshuffled media map also brings Netflix into the mix with special event broadcasts like the season opener and Home Run Derby, while ESPN transitions to a smaller midsummer and weekday package and integrates MLB.TV into its app. Traditional partners like Fox and TBS remain locked into Saturdays and postseason windows, and Apple TV+ continues its Friday Night Baseball series. For fans, it all adds up to more games spread across broadcast TV, cable, and multiple streaming platforms — and a very different way of watching national baseball than in years past.

For now, though, NBC and Peacock will hold the lion’s share of the premier national windows. And former Chicago White Sox broadcaster Jason Benetti is widely expected to be the voice of those games.

So where do the White Sox fit into that picture?

Chicago appears on NBC’s national schedule just once. On Sunday, July 19, the White Sox will face the defending AL champion Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre in a game streamed nationally on Peacock, with Benetti likely on the call and first pitch set for 11 a.m. CT.

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The Sox are also part of MLB’s July 5 “Star-Spangled Sunday,” when every team plays on July 4 weekend with staggered start times. Chicago will host the division-rival Cleveland Guardians in a 1 p.m. CT first pitch, though that game will not be part of NBC’s Sunday night slate.

The White Sox are not featured in any of NBC’s 28 Sunday Night Baseball broadcasts — a distinction shared by only one other team, the Colorado Rockies.

That’s a pretty loud statement about how the national baseball media still views the White Sox. Even after an active and intriguing offseason, the perception remains that this is a rebuilding club, not a prime-time draw.

That can change quickly, though. And changing it is exactly the point in 2026, as the White Sox try to build on their 19-win improvement from 2025 and take another step toward real contention.