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In baseball, TV's future is at the gates – but it'll take a lot to break through

When news broke that Major League Baseball had worked out a deal expanding the streaming of games within local markets, fans celebrated. These things happen when changes are made there, as advancement by Major League Baseball in this area is, perhaps, the change most desired by their product's consumers.

But this, a deal between MLB Advanced Media and Fox Sports, is not that. It's change, but not really. For the fourteen teams who broadcast their games on channels run by FOX, their fans can now stream their games inside the team's TV market—if they have cable, and if they have that channel.