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The Marlins fans who watched games on FanDuel Sports Florida last season \u201ccan feel confident that they will be able to watch the games on their same provider this season, even though no agreements have been signed,\u201d according to Barry Jackson of the MIAMI HERALD. The club, after moving its rights from Main Street Sports Group to MLB Media<\/a>, are \u201cvery optimistic\u201d that providers that carried the FanDuel RSNs will also \u201cstrike a deal with MLB to carry Marlins games on a stand-alone channel.\u201d However, fans who subscribe to providers that do not carry the FanDuel networks \u201cshould have far less confidence.\u201d There will not \u201cbe complete clarity until MLB announces all of the deals it has struck for the handful of teams leaving FanDuel.\u201d At that time, the Marlins will \u201cdisclose the channel number where games will air on the cable and satellite providers that agree to carry the games.\u201d It will also be known at that time if \u201cthere will be an extra cost, beyond your cable or satellite subscription, to watch those games.\u201d There is \u201cexpected to be an extra charge.\u201d The Marlins also plan to \u201csimulcast the maximum-permitted 10 games on a local over-the-air station,\u201d with WFOR-CBS and WBFS-CW \u201cin play for those games\u201d (MIAMI HERALD, 3\/18<\/a>).<\/p>\n

BUILDING UP: In Cleveland, Joe Scalzo wrote the Guardians are \u201clooking to build on\u201d last year\u2019s move to CLEGuardians.TV as their primary direct\u2011to\u2011consumer option<\/a>. The team \u201csurpassed 63,000 streaming subscribers in Year 1, reaching fans across its entire viewing territory\u201d and has already \u201cmore than doubled its subscriber base compared to this time last year.\u201d The broadcast itself \u201cwill look largely the same,\u201d as games will again be produced by MLB and \u201cdistributed across cable, streaming and over-the-air platforms.\u201d Play-by-play announcer Matt Underwood, analyst Rick Manning and reporter Andre Knott are all returning back to the broadcast team. The Guardians will also continue its over-the-air partnership with WKYC, \u201cairing 10 games this season — most on Friday nights — giving fans a consistent, free option to tune in.\u201d By eliminating in-market blackouts and offering a standalone streaming option, the Guardians were able to \u201creach a broader — and younger — audience,\u201d with streaming viewers \u201caveraging in their 30s compared to a linear TV audience in their 50s\u201d (CRAIN\u2019S CLEVELAND BUSINESS, 3\/19)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Marlins fans who watched games on FanDuel Sports Florida last season \u201ccan feel confident that they will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,6035,1296,1816,778,58,4171,4],"class_list":["post-633943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-marlins","tag-baseball","tag-deals","tag-entertainment","tag-marlins","tag-miami","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miamimarlins","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116262836107919007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633943","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=633943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}