NBC's Rick Cordella Wants Baseball Partnership to Extend Well Beyond Three-Year Deal

NBC's Rick Cordella wants baseball partnership to extend well beyond three-year deal

NBC Sports president Rick Cordella is already thinking past the network’s three-year baseball deal with MLB. Speaking with The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch this week, Cordella said he hopes NBC will be in the baseball business for much longer than the 2026-28 agreement currently on the books. “I think whenever we get into a deal with someone, it’s not for just the period of time,” Cordella told Deitsch. “Fox has had baseball since NBC exited back …

MLB's returning to NBC, and the network wants to air baseball beyond its 3-year deal

NBC Sports is still months away from airing its first MLB game in a quarter century -- an exclusive prime-time March 26 game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers -- but NBC Sports president Rick Cordella…