You'll Be Able To Stream Phillies Games Online This Year
MLB Advanced Media and NBC’s Regional Sports Networks have come together like two of Captain Planet’s protégés to bring you, with their powers combined, Phillies games on your laptop and mobile devices for the first time. Via press release:
NBC Sports Regional Networks today announced an agreement with MLBAM to stream local market MLB games, as well as pre- and postgame shows, beginning with the 2017 regular season. This new streaming offering is available at no additional cost to authenticated pay TV subscribers of NBC Sports Group’s CSN regional sports networks (RSNs). This local initiative advances NBCUniversal’s implementation of “TV Everywhere,” which strives to make quality content available to authenticated customers both in and out of the home, and on multiple platforms.
The addition of MLB authenticated in-market streaming completes the local streaming portfolio for the NBC Sports Regional Networks, which also includes local NBA and NHL live streaming. The RSNs first introduced NBA streaming in 2014 and last fall announced the addition of NHL in-market streaming, beginning with the 2016-17 season.
The NBC Sports Regional Networks now have partnerships for in-market streaming of the Golden State Warriors, Sacramento Kings, San Jose Sharks, San Francisco Giants and Oakland A’s (CSN Bay Area/CSN California); Chicago Bulls, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox (CSN Chicago); Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals (CSN Mid-Atlantic); Philadelphia 76ers, Philadelphia Flyers and Philadelphia Phillies (CSN Philadelphia); and Boston Celtics (CSN New England).
Games will be streamed through the NBC Sports app, and you’ll be able to watch all in-market MLB games right to your laptop, phone, tablet, or TV (sans cable) with Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, etc. It’ll work the same way streaming a Sixers or Flyers game works now (really well, but you’ll need cable credentials to log in). It’s a small step – but a step nonetheless – to untethering people from traditional cable.