The yearslong dispute between the Orioles and Nationals over the ballclubs’ television rights is finally over.

Major League Baseball on Monday announced the resolution of “all issues related” to the two franchises’ dispute over the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, according to a news release by the league.

The 2025 season will be the final one for Nationals games to be broadcast on MASN. For 2026 and beyond, the Nationals will “explore alternatives for their television rights,” according to the news release. The financial terms of the settlement were not announced, but all disputes and litigation have been resolved or dismissed, according to MLB.

“The Nationals and Orioles extend their gratitude to Commissioner [Rob] Manfred and his team at MLB for their efforts in bringing this matter to a successful conclusion,” reads the news release. “Both Clubs thank our fans for their support and look forward to continuing their partnership with MASN for the upcoming season.”

Orioles owner David Rubenstein, who officially purchased the club a little under a year ago, said when he took over the franchise that he aimed to settle the MASN issue.

“My goal is to take this away from the lawyers and give it back to the business people to resolve,” he said last March. “So I’m hopeful, and I have reason to believe that I can get this done, but I’m not a miracle worker.”

Greg Bader, MASN’s executive vice president and general manager, and Catie Griggs, the Orioles’ president of business operations, both declined to comment through a spokesperson, who instead provided the following quote from Rubenstein: “We are excited to have this longstanding issue resolved and look forward to the season ahead.”

About 20 years ago, when the Montreal Expos moved to Washington, then-Orioles owner Peter Angelos pushed MLB to broker a deal to compensate the Baltimore club for a new team encroaching on what was Orioles territory. Bud Selig, MLB’s commissioner at the time, oversaw the deal that gave control of the Nationals’ television rights — a vital revenue stream — to Orioles-controlled MASN in perpetuity. The agreement made the Nationals the only team in MLB unable to sell its local TV rights.

The two teams engaged in legal battles for more than a decade over the amount of money the Nationals are owed for their TV rights. In recent years, rulings by New York courts and agreements by both sides have resulted in MASN paying hundreds of millions of dollars to the Nationals.

In January, the Nationals filed a petition to certify an MLB committee’s ruling that MASN owes them just under $320.5 million in fees for the right to broadcast their games from 2022 through 2026, according to documents filed with the Supreme Court of New York. MLB’s three-person Revenue Sharing Definitions Committee determined in May that the Orioles would owe $72.8 million per year for the 2022 and 2023 seasons, and $58.3 million for 2024 through 2026.

It’s unclear how these figures were settled in the agreement announced Monday aside from the removal of the Nationals on MASN for 2026. In a court filing Sunday with the Supreme Court of New York, the dissolution of any litigation is contingent on the Nationals receiving the “settlement amount” agreed upon Friday. The filing does not specify the amount.

One of Rubenstein’s first major moves as Orioles owner was to hire Griggs away from the Seattle Mariners in July. She then spearheaded changes to the club’s business operations this offseason, which included promoting Bader, a longtime Orioles executive, to oversee MASN. John Angelos, the Orioles’ control person before Rubenstein, was MASN’s president before his family sold its stake in the club.

How or if the new agreement changes anything for the Orioles and their fans remains to be seen. The Nationals, on the other hand, will finally be given the ability to profit from their TV rights.

Three of the other professional sports teams in the District — the NBA’s Wizards, the NHL’s Capitals and the WNBA’s Mystics — have their games broadcast on the Monumental Sports Network, which is operated by Ted Leonsis, the owner of those three teams.

Leonsis has long been rumored to have interest in buying the Nationals, which are owned by the Lerner family.

Since the dispute originated, the landscape of regional sports networks has radically shifted because of streaming. More fans, especially younger ones, are cutting the cord and choosing to spend their money on streaming services rather than the traditional cable bundle.

Some teams, including recently the Cleveland Guardians, have partnered with MLB to make their games available without blackouts on MLB.TV. Since last March, MASN’s website has stated it’s “working on the Direct to Consumer App.”

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