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MLB eyes giving teams streaming rights challenging pay-TV model

Baseball may be big on tradition — but that could change.

Major League Baseball is discovering the upside of streaming and moving away from a pay-TV-focused model, according to some league insiders.

The prospect for change is happening because MLB’s current contract with 22 Fox regional sports networks expires at year-end. As part of that deal, each RSN pays the league $2 million for those streaming rights.

Disney is in the process of selling the 22 RSNs as a condition of its $71 billion deal to buy the majority of Twenty-First Century Fox entertainment assets.