MLB Sunday Leadoff

MLB Sunday Leadoff is an upcoming presentation of Major League Baseball games produced by NBC Sports for the NBC owned streaming service Peacock.

MLB Sunday Leadoff
MLB Sunday Leadoff logo
Also known asMLB on NBC
MLB on Peacock
GenreBaseball telecasts
Presented byJason Benetti
Ahmed Fareed
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
Production
Production locationsVarious MLB stadiums (game telecasts)
NBC Sports Headquarters, Stamford, Connecticut (studio segments, pregame and postgame shows)
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time180 minutes (varies depending on game length)
Production companyNBC Sports
Release
Original networkPeacock
NBC (select games only)
Original releaseMay 8, 2022 (2022-05-08) –
present
Chronology
Related showsMajor League Baseball on NBC

Peacock's coverage will include 18 Sunday regular season games starting at either 11:30AM ET or 12:00PM ET, as well as the All-Star Futures Game. Select games, including the inaugural game on May 8, 2022, will be simulcast on NBC.

History

Prior to MLB Sunday Leadoff branding
See also: History of Major League Baseball on NBC

Major League Baseball first aired on Peacock during the 2021 MLB season, when Peacock streamed the Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants' June 18–20 series exclusively for free. The local rights to both teams are owned by the NBC Sports Regional Networks, and the games featured a mixture of personnel from the teams' broadcasts on NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports Philadelphia: the commentary team featured the Giants' Jon Miller on play-by-play, with his partner Mike Krukow, and the Phillies' John Kruk and Jimmy Rollins, serving as analysts.[1][2] This telecast did not use the MLB Sunday Leadoff branding.

As MLB Sunday Leadoff

In March 2022, it was reported by The Wall Street Journal that NBC Sports was finalizing an agreement to establish a new package of Sunday afternoon games beginning in the 2022 MLB season (effectively succeeding TBS's previous Sunday afternoon package during the second half of the season, which was replaced by a new Tuesday night package for 2022).[3] NBC formally announced the deal on April 6, and announced the inaugural broadcast would be a game between the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on May 8.[4]

As previously mentioned, the May 8, 2022 broadcast would be simulcast on the NBC broadcast network. Therefore, this would mark the first time that a Major League Baseball game would be televised on NBC since Game 6 of the 2000 American League Championship Series on October 17, 2000.

NBC also announced that the deal would bring the All-Star Futures Game, on-demand classic MLB games, and other baseball programming to Peacock.[5]

On April 13, 2022, NBC announced they would brand these games as MLB Sunday Leadoff.[6]

On April 26, 2022, the New York Post reported that Jason Benetti would be the lead play-by-play man for MLB Sunday Leadoff. The post also reported that the color commentators would feature one person from each team playing in the game.[7] Separately, on the same day, NBC announced Ahmed Fareed as the studio host for the series.[8]

See also

References
  1. "Phillies-Giants series to be broadcast only on Peacock, for free". Awful Announcing. 2021-06-14. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
  2. Kurtenbach, Dieter (June 14, 2021). "You won't be able to find SF Giants games on cable TV this weekend". The Mercury News.
  3. Diamond, Lillian Rizzo and Jared (2022-03-11). "NBC's Peacock Is Finalizing Deal to Stream MLB Games in New Sunday Time Slot". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
  4. Lucia, Joe (April 6, 2022). "Your 2022 MLB regular season broadcasting primer". Awful Announcing.
  5. "Peacock Becomes Exclusive Home of New Sunday Morning Major League Baseball Game Package". Comcast. NBC Sports Group Press Box. 6 April 2022. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  6. ""MLB SUNDAY LEADOFF" – PEACOCK AND NBC SPORTS REVEAL NAME AND LOGO FOR EXCLUSIVE SUNDAY MORNING BASEBALL PACKAGE". Comcast. NBC Sports Group Press Box. 13 April 2022. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  7. "NBC picks Jason Benetti and local analysts for Sunday MLB Peacock games". Comcast. New York Post. 26 April 2022. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  8. "AHMED FAREED NAMED HOST OF MLB SUNDAY LEADOFF ON PEACOCK". Comcast. NBC Sports Group Press Box. 26 April 2022. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
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