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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ESPN and Major League Baseball have agreed to a new eight-year, $5.6 billion broadcast rights deal, reports John Ourand in\u00A0&lt;em&gt;SportsBusiness Daily&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The deal will allow ESPN to carry a Wild Card game and feature popular teams such as the New York Yankees more often, Ourand reports.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The cost is \"approximately double\" the $306 million per year ESPN pays MLB to broadcast games, Ourand reports.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[tweet https://twitter.com/Ourand_SBJ/status/240440734837264385]\nESPN's also increases its digital and international rights in the deal. The network will maintain its schedule of showing games on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday each week.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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