MLB Network

The MLB Network is an American television sports channel dedicated to baseball. It is primarily owned by Major League Baseball,^[1] with Warner Bros. Discovery Sports, Comcast‘s NBC Sports Group, Charter Communications, and Cox Communications having minority ownership.^[2]

The channel’s headquarters and studios are located at their leased facilities in Secaucus, New Jersey,^[3] a building owned by Hartz Mountain Industries^[4] which formerly housed MSNBC‘s studios. MLB Network’s studios also house NHL Network, which came under the management of MLB Advanced Media in mid-2015 and transferred most operations from the network’s former Toronto home base.

Tony Petitti, former executive producer of CBS Sports, was named the network’s first president. Petitti served as MLB Network’s president until December 2014, when he was appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball. Rob McGlarry, who worked as Senior and later Executive Vice-president of Business Affairs at MLB Network since 2009, was named the network’s second president.^[5]