MLB Network’s Season Long Numbers Continue A Great Week For Baseball

Baseball’s good news continues, as MLB Network recorded a 6% increase for overall viewership in both total day and in prime time compared to 2017 as the regular season wrapped up. Also, every daily studio show saw year-over-year viewership growth. That included MLB Central, up +13%, and High Heat with Christopher Russo, with its best year, up 53%. To make its NLDS game telecasts available to even more viewers, MLB Network has partnered with several of its distributors to expand their existing carriage of MLB Network by providing a free preview from Oct. 3-10 to video customers of AT&T U-verse, Comcast (XFINITY), Cox, DIRECTV, DIRECTV NOW, DISH, Frontier, Verizon Fios and many others, bringing MLB Network’s distribution for that period to approximately 90 million homes. MLB Network’s Postseason games are also available anywhere in the United States via an authenticated live stream to customers of participating pay TV providers through the MLB At Bat app, MLBNetwork.com/Watch and MLB.TV.

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