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NEW YORK Fox has renewed its Major League Baseball television rights deal through 2013, expanding its Saturday baseball telecasts, keeping the All-Star Game and the World Series, and retaining the American and National League Championship Series in alternating years.
MLB is still negotiating with unnamed networks for the ALCS and NLCS games in the other alternating years, with NBC and CBS both said to be interested.
Fox will pay about $250 million per year for its new package, considerably less than the $415 million per year it paid under its previous deal, but it gave up the American and National League Divisional Series games, in addition to the ALCS and NLCS games in alternating years.
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