{"id":623789,"date":"2026-03-14T18:07:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/623789\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:07:45","slug":"netflixs-world-baseball-classic-deal-to-test-japans-streaming-appetite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/623789\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix&#8217;s World Baseball Classic deal to test Japan&#8217;s streaming appetite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260304 Netflix WBC\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Kaata Sakamoto,\u00a0Netflix vice president of content for Japan\u00a0(Courtesy of Netflix)<\/p>\n<p>TAKESHI WATANABE and KENJI GOROKU<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; All 47 games of this year&#8217;s World Baseball Classic, which began on Thursday, March 5, will be streamed in Japan exclusively on Netflix as rising rights fees price out traditional broadcasters, though some fear the shift could dampen enthusiasm in a country with an engrained terrestrial TV culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaata Sakamoto,\u00a0Netflix vice president of content for Japan\u00a0(Courtesy of Netflix) TAKESHI WATANABE and KENJI GOROKU TOKYO &#8212; All&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2302],"tags":[80370,5,12503,2200,37681,80369,2353,2352,9052,12131,1645],"class_list":{"0":"post-623789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-npb","8":"tag-appetite","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-classic","11":"tag-deal","12":"tag-japans","13":"tag-netflixs","14":"tag-nippon-professional-baseball","15":"tag-npb","16":"tag-streaming","17":"tag-test","18":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116228866942210187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}