SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — After coming home from a hectic day at work, Patty Noakes likes to wind down by watching baseball on ESPN. But it is not just any baseball she is watching on the U.S. cable station these days. ESPN will be carrying six Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) games per week [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — With the major league season not off the ground yet, the 2018 American League MVP Mookie Betts will continue to expand his role as a new global ambassador for South Korean baseball. Betts’ agency, VC Sports Group, announced Thursday that the Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder has launched a digital [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league has hit a home run with its television and online ratings on the first day of the new season. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced Wednesday that the five Opening Day games from the previous day had an average rating of 1.47 percent on [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Journalists from nearly 20 international media outlets flocked to baseball stadiums across South Korea on Tuesday, trying to get a glimpse into the nation emerging from the global coronavirus pandemic, with the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) launching its 2020 season. The regular season began across five ballparks Tuesday, the [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. sports cable giant ESPN will broadcast South Korean baseball games to its American audience, starting with the first day of the season on Tuesday. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced Monday that ESPN has struck a deal with Eclat, the Korean company with international distribution rights to [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Of the many signs that life in South Korea is returning to normal amid the global coronavirus pandemic, the start of a new baseball season may be among the clearest. After all, if it is safe for grownups to take their bats and gloves and play a game for [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league, for which the regular season is set to open on Tuesday, has become of the talk of town, drawing attention from sports officials and fans around the world, including Spain’s La Liga as well as Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and the U.S. sports [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — On many levels, the 2020 South Korean professional baseball season will be unlike any of the 38 that came before it. Because of the coronavirus outbreak earlier in the spring, the start of the new Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season was pushed back from March 28 to May 5, [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league, preparing for a new ‘crowdless’ season this year, is also coming up with plans for a phase-by-phase entry of fans aligned with the evolution of the coronavirus outbreak. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) secretariat and heads of the 10 teams held a board meeting [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. sports media giant ESPN was seeking free rights to broadcast South Korean professional baseball games, leading to a stalemate in its negotiations with its counterpart in Seoul, informed sources told Yonhap News Agency on Thursday. According to sources with knowledge of the talks, ESPN wanted to acquire rights [...]