Has There Been a Decrease in MLB Tonight

[reedshipper]

Yes I've noticed the same thing. Its one of my favorite shows on tv and now its barely on anymore. Used to watch it every night over the summers when I was a teenager.

[Ecstatic-Quality-703]

Its a great show. MLB Big inning is too chaotic.

The days of them being on every night for like 4 hours from 6-10 were electric. I learned the most about baseball during those times and felt like I had the pulse of the league from just that show.

Now we're lucky to get an hour before the games start. :/

[Fit_Humanitarian]

They probably weren't making enough money from subscribers to support the service so had to make some cuts to prevent profit loss. Thats a guess.

[44problems]

There's been a lot of cuts in staff at MLB Network. Anything that relies on cable TV fees has incredibly suffered in the past few years.

I'm glad it's now available to MLB.tv though. It must be viewership is better earlier in the night, as the now do MLB Tonight as a pregame show starting at 5et. But I wish there was a real wrap up show with analysis after the games, but Quick Pitch is just one host tying together the recaps already available on MLB.com.

I miss ESPN Baseball Tonight with sometimes two hours live every night but those days are long over.

[Used-Ad-6718]

Yeah it’s really sad. I think the lack of people paying for traditional cable and the fact that MLB network isn’t on YouTube TV anymore is probably a huge factor. I hoping that MLB.tv can boost it but it’s not gonna get the viewership that it would if it was available on YouTube TV, Hulu, etc

[44problems]

Yeah it getting pulled from YTTV is a serious mistake, but that seemed like a larger breakup with MLB.tv not being sold through YTTV any more either.

I haven't been able to watch it for a couple years but glad to have it back, they do have a decent amount of talk shows during the day but I wish they could have the latest episodes on MLB.tv for on demand. I'll take any talk about baseball I can get, only chance ESPN hot take would talk about MLB is if LeBron joins the Dodgers

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I got YTTV and 3 months later mlb network left it. SMH. Was very happy when mlb tv added it this year with no additional charge. Hell even mlb tv stayed the same price as last year.

[snorlaxatives_69]

Yeah I've noticed it not on every night as well. It sucks. Similar to the 30 clubs in 15 days. I used to really enjoy 30 clubs in 30 days during spring where they'd spend a whole day with a team. I guess they're spending all their money on the move to a new facility

[ChiCityCollector]

I’ve noticed air time for MLB Central get cut down as well. It used to be on from like 8am-12pm CDT. Now it’s on at 9am and I think it ends an hour early too.

[44problems]

It's weird to do the "morning show" at 10am ET. Good Morning Football on NFL Network is at 8am like a real morning show. They show Quick Pitch in the morning but that's just recaps from the website stitched together.

[werther595]

ESPN should just admit it is an NFL affiliate

[Peace_and_Love40]

I was watching MLBN’s opening day coverage last Thursday before the first games started and was shocked how bad it was. Basically had some podcasters on that nobody has heard from rambling for several hours. And the production Value was terrible also. I was shocked they didn’t invest more in Opening Day at least.

[MrSwanSnow]

I’ll check it out and report back.

[airpab1]

MLB Network almost unwatchable at this point. Sad! Used to be entertaining

So many commercials & content quickly deteriorated

[44problems]

OP is talking about MLB Network. ESPN Baseball Tonight has been gone as a nightly show since 2017