The Washington Nationals continue to have an ongoing dispute with the Baltimore Orioles over television rights fees.
As the Lerner family continues to explore a sale of the franchise, Major League Baseball has renewed efforts to to try to broker an agreement between the clubs over the dispute.
As part of the relocation efforts to move the franchise from Montreal to Washington nearly two decades ago, the Nationals agreed to tie their local broadcasting rights to MASN.
The network is jointly owned by the Nationals and Orioles, but the Orioles’ ownership share is roughly 77% while the Nats own around 23%.
That agreement, a condition of the franchise’s relocation into the Orioles’ geographic territorial rights, caps the Nationals’ TV revenue by making it impermissible for them to sell broadcasting rights to a regional sports network.
The issue is something that will need to be resolved before a sale.
