{"id":677746,"date":"2026-04-17T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677746\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:33:30","slug":"washington-nationals-tv-gets-updated-sound-look-with-help-from-mlb-local-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677746\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals TV gets updated sound, look with help from MLB Local Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Nationals broadcasts \u201csound and look different\u201d this season with \u201csupport and technology from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/27\/nationals-fans-confused-over-access-to-new-nationals-tv-channel-on-verizon-fios-on-opening-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/27\/nationals-fans-confused-over-access-to-new-nationals-tv-channel-on-verizon-fios-on-opening-day\/\">MLB Local Media<\/a>,\u201d after an offseason split from the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, according to Jonas Shaffer of the BALTIMORE BANNER. Nationals broadcasters and officials say that the partnership has helped \u201clift Nationals.TV in its inaugural season to levels that were out of reach under MASN.\u201d Full-time play-by-play voice Dan Kolko and pre- and post-game host and in-game reporter Alexa Datt &#8212; who was hired after covering the Cardinals and Blues as a host for FanDuel Sports Network Midwest &#8212; have a partnership with analyst Kevin Frandsen. Frandsen joined MASN\u2019s broadcast team\u202fin 2022 and has \u201cinjected a different energy into the broadcast.\u201d Datt said that their hope is to \u201cevoke the hangout vibes of \u2018Inside the NBA.\u2019\u201d Shaffer notes access has \u201cimproved as well.\u201d Nationals\u2019 Exec Dir of content and broadcasting Wendy Bailey said that the MLB \u201cencourages collaboration between teams\u2019 public relations, communications and broadcast arms in hopes of creating more engaging on-air content.\u201d Bailey added that the Nationals \u201cwanted their broadcasts to better measure up against the sport\u2019s \u2018gold standard,\u2019\u201d pointing to national broadcasts of postseason games. Shaffer writes the Nationals and MLB have \u201cgiven them more angles.\u201d The team could also incorporate a \u201cdirt cam\u201d\u202fand an umpire-mounted camera. The \u201cWire Cam,\u201d glides from third base to home plate, offering an \u201calmost cinematic perspective as players round the bases and the ball\u2019s relayed home\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebanner.com\/sports\/nationals-mlb\/washington-nationals-broadcast-changes-masn-NZ7TJL6TA5F73MEQBWPEE2QMVQ\/ \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thebanner.com\/sports\/nationals-mlb\/washington-nationals-broadcast-changes-masn-NZ7TJL6TA5F73MEQBWPEE2QMVQ\/ \">BALTIMORE BANNER, 4\/17<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nationals broadcasts \u201csound and look different\u201d this season with \u201csupport and technology from MLB Local Media,\u201d after an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,1296,4,415,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-677746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-nationals","12":"tag-washington","13":"tag-washington-nationals","14":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116421019326689697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677746","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=677746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}