Under the deal DirecTV will become the only carrier of a long-planned 24-hour baseball channel.
DirecTV has agreed to pay $700 million over seven years for the package, according to US media reports. The deal makes DirecTV the exclusive home of Extra Innings, which had until now also been available via cable.
Extra Innings lets subscribers, for a fee, watch about 60 games a week from other local markets except their own. The new baseball channel is scheduled to start in 2009. DirecTV is available to about 15 million subscribers.
