PITTSBURGH (AP) -- First-round playoff games will be shown only on cable starting next season as part of baseball's new seven-year television deal with Fox and TBS, a total package worth almost $3 billion.
Turner Broadcasting System also will televise 26 regular-season Sunday games in 2008 while eventually cutting back on its nationwide Atlanta Braves coverage.
Turner began showing Braves games locally on WTBS in 1973, then took them national via satellite four years later.
TBS will show 70 Braves games nationally next year, then 45 per season locally through 2013. Up to 13 of those Atlanta games can be shown on TBS' Sunday package.
"Turner Sports has long been familiar to baseball fans, and we are excited that their coverage will now extend to all of our clubs during the regular season," Selig said.
Translation: Nobody wants to watch Braves games anymore, so we're gonna start showing other teams, lol.