{
  "id": 12955533,
  "title": "After Shortening Games, MLB Wants to Shorten Its Season",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/after-shortening-games-mlb-wants-to-shorten-its-season",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-08T20:56:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Sportico",
    "slug": "sportico",
    "url": "https://www.sportico.com/leagues/baseball/2026/mlb-schedule-proposal-tv-strategy-local-playoffs-1234947065/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "MLB’s 162-game regular season has long been a boon for teams selling summerlong tonnage to cable TV channels. As recently as 2022, 23% of MLB team revenues came from local media deals, nearly twice the percentage seen in the NBA or NHL. But the decline of regional sports networks has changed the math in baseball, […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}