North America’s elite Major League Baseball (MLB) competition will return to Mexican broadcast heavyweight TelevisaUnivision in 2026 with a new multi-year deal.
Through this new agreement, which runs through the 2028 campaign, TelevisaUnivision will showcase 55 regular-season weekend games each campaign, live on its Channel 5 and Channel 9 linear networks, as well as the ViX OTT streaming service.
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This will continue into the postseason, with Televisa also holding the rights to Saturday and Sunday games from the Divisional Series and Championship Series, and exclusive rights to air all seven games from the season-ending World Series.
In all, this will amount to over 70 games each year, with ancillary content taking the form of a weekly magazine show.
This deal also covers the upcoming 2026 World Baseball Classic (WBC) national team tournament, in which Mexico will compete, covering all of Mexico’s group stage games, as well as the tournament’s semi-finals and showpiece final.
Marcelo Liceaga, senior vice president for sports rights, acquisitions, and commercial partnerships at TelevisaUnivision, commented: “We are thrilled to sign this historic alliance with MLB, which will allow us to bring our audiences in Mexico the most exciting plays of their favorite teams for the next three years. Our commitment to our audiences is to offer the best sports content, and we are grateful that MLB has chosen us as its home.”
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By GlobalDataIn all, 26 of Mexico’s 30-man squad for the WBC currently competes in MLB, including high-profile names such as Alejandro Kirk (Blue Jays), Randy Arozarena and Andrés Muñoz (both Mariners), and Jarren Duran (Red Sox).
In 2023, Mexico made it to the semi-finals of the competition, falling to eventual champions Japan.
So far, February 2026 has seen Televisa bolster its US sports rights portfolio, having recently also agreed an extension to its coverage of American football’s NFL.
