{"id":666929,"date":"2026-04-06T19:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666929\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:13:29","slug":"how-to-watch-the-rays-on-tv-and-streaming-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666929\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch the Rays on TV and streaming this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 There are new ways to watch the Rays play this season. It might be confusing, but don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;ve got all the info you need right here!<\/p>\n<p>The Rays announced on Feb. 2 their local television broadcasts will be produced by Major League Baseball starting this season. Fans will have to subscribe to Rays.TV on the MLB streaming platform to watch in-market games.<\/p>\n<p>The subscription will still include the Rays&#8217; on-air talent, including their play-by-play broadcaster, color analyst, and in-game reporter.<\/p>\n<p>If you live outside the Tampa Bay area and want to watch the Rays, you should purchase MLB.TV. Rays.TV is only for fans in the Home Television Territory of the Rays.<\/p>\n<p>The subscription is for regular-season games in the Rays&#8217; home territory with no blackouts (subject to national exclusivity).<\/p>\n<p>If you have a cable and live in Florida, you can find the Rays on specific channels based on your cable or satellite provider below:<\/p>\n<p>DirecTV\/DTV Stream: Channel 652Comcast\/Xfinity: Channel 1262Spectrum (Digital): Channel 400AT&amp;T U-verse: Channel 1719Cox: Channel 78 and 96Spectrum (Set-top Box): Channel 236 &#8212; Blountstown &amp; Chattahoochee, Fla.Spectrum (Set-top Box): Channel 103\/1152 &#8212; Orlando DMASpectrum (Set-top Box): Channel 179\/ 1152 &#8212; Gainesville, Tampa DMAsSpectrum (Set-top Box): Channel 415\/1415 &#8212; Chipley, Defuniak, Cantonment, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Rays.TV and Rays baseball, click <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/rays-games-mlb-distribution-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BLAKE.PHILLIPS.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Seminole Hard Rock Tampa and The Motor Enclave announce new partnership to create Hard Rock Speedway<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the partnership, Hard Rock displayed classic cars, including a replica of the Shelby from &#8220;Gone in 60 Seconds&#8221; and a replica Daytona from &#8220;Miami Vice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seminole Hard Rock Tampa and The Motor Enclave announce new partnership to create Hard Rock Speedway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 There are new ways to watch the Rays play this season. It might be confusing,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[10117,10118,5,4502,4,297,2550,52714,68,10119,2551,2549,10120,10121],"class_list":{"0":"post-666929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-abc-action-news-sports","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-how-to-watch","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-rays","14":"tag-tampa-bay","15":"tag-tampa-bay-28","16":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","17":"tag-tampa-bay-sports","18":"tag-tampabay","19":"tag-tampabayrays","20":"tag-wfts","21":"tag-wfts-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116359359698479716","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666929","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=666929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}