CDN and MLB renew contract

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Dominican TV station Cadena de Noticias (CDN) has renewed its television contract with Major League Baseball (MLB) allowing CDN to broadcast MLB games for the next four years. Frank Uddo, VP of International Broadcast Sales, quoted in Hoy, said that MLB is proud of the contract extension because the DR is very important to them. The announcement of the contract extension came during the announcement of the new CDN 2, channel 67, which will broadcast west coast MLB baseball games. Felix M. Garcia, of Multimedia del Caribe, which owns CDN, said that the agreement is very important and will be mutually beneficial for the fans, for MLB and for Multimedia del Caribe. Michael Roy from Multimedia announced that in the future, fans would be able to choose the game they want televised through phone-in contests. Roy also announced that pre-season baseball games, including the Boston Red Sox contest in Tokyo, could be televised on CDN.

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