Everything You Need To Know About The Cincinnati Reds New TV Deal | How To Watch The Reds in 2025

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MLB to produce, distribute local Reds broadcasts in 2025
Mark Sheldon

Major League Baseball and the club announced on Thursday that MLB will produce and distribute Reds local TV broadcasts next season. That means Reds games will no longer be shown on Bally Sports Ohio, which was recently rebranded as FanDuel Sports Network Ohio, as its parent company, the Diamond Sports Group, worked through exiting bankruptcy.

The Reds are following the Brewers, Twins and Guardians in moving away from the regional sports network model this offseason. Last season, MLB produced and aired games for the Padres, Diamondbacks and Rockies. Those arrangements included cable and satellite distribution, as well as direct-to-consumer streaming options.

“Partnering with Major League Baseball ensures a bright future for our televised game coverage,” Reds president/CEO Phil Castellini said. “This collaboration provides fans with unprecedented access to Reds games, including direct-to-consumer streaming with no blackouts, while maintaining traditional cable and satellite TV options.”

Here is what Reds fans need to know about the changes:

Where can I find the games on my cable, satellite or streaming service?

If you’ve already been watching Reds games via a cable or satellite provider, those games will still be available for you to watch from that same provider in 2025. For fans who do not have cable or satellite service in Cincinnati’s home television territory, the games will now be available via a subscription to MLB’s streaming service – with no blackouts.

“Nothing will really change for fans that have an existing TV package that includes FanDuel Sports [Network Ohio],” he said.

What about Reds fans who live in outlying areas of the Greater Cincinnati region but are situated in other team’s TV market territories?

“We have a very wide home television territory. We cover seven states,” Healy said. “We bleed into West Virginia, into North Carolina. We’re throughout Tennessee, throughout Kentucky, throughout the majority of Ohio, the majority of Indiana and we even go down into Mississippi.

“There will be no blackouts going forward. Anyone in our home television territory will be able to purchase Reds games through this over-the-top, direct-to-consumer streaming package.”

How much will the streaming service cost?

Prices for 2025 will be set at a later date. Similar to other clubs, fans will have the option to purchase only Reds games or bundle this local package with MLB.TV to stream all games around the league. In 2024, these local packages for the Padres, Rockies and Diamondbacks were $19.99 per month or $99.99 for the season. Fans who bundled the local package with MLB.TV to get games all over the league paid $39.99 per month, or $199.99 for the season.

Who will be calling Reds games on TV?

That is still to be determined.

How will this impact player payroll in 2025?

“We will maintain payroll levels at or above 2024,” Healy said. “And we will continue to give Nick Krall, Terry Francona and the entire Reds baseball operations the resources they need to field a championship caliber team at the major league level.”

15 comments

  4. I have Spectrum cable. If for some reason Spectrum doesn't add a channel to watch the Reds games come opening day, and I were to purchase the streaming package but then let's say a week later Spectrum does finally provide the new Reds channel…would I be able to get my money refunded from the MLB app purchase since I would at that point no longer need it to watch the games since I was already a Spectrum cable subscriber?

  11. To be fair. SAM BRIAN J DAY COWBOY LARKIN ANNIE and even Chris usually are Great. Our current radio and tv play by play guys don't really remind of Skully..Al. Costas..Marty etc to be polite

  13. I'm sorry if I missed it but what leads you to believe T-Mobile deal won't include the Reds?

    Also I think every video involving Cincinnati sports should have a suicide prevention helpline.

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