Streaming is here: Mariners TV games available with ROOT subscription

Mar 21, 2025, 9:03 AM | Updated: 9:45 am

Editor, Seattle Sports

The Seattle Mariners’ TV situation has indeed changed for 2025 – and in a big way that fans have been clamoring for.

Direct-to-consumer streaming is here.

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The franchise announced Friday that ROOT Sports, the home of the vast majority of Mariners television broadcasts, is being made available in market directly to consumers as a streaming subscription. This finally gives fans an a la carte option to watch the majority of Mariners games in addition to the usual method of subscribing to a multichannel television provider.

A ROOT subscription will cost $19.99 per month “with no long-term commitment,” per a press release. The channel can be accessed via apps on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and at ROOTSPORTSstream.com.

“Our goal is to connect fans to Mariners baseball in as many ways as possible,” Seattle Mariners president of business operations Kevin Martinez said in the press release. “The new ROOT SPORTS Stream app is an excellent complement to the existing, valuable partnerships ROOT SPORTS has with TV providers to bring Mariners baseball to all fans in the Pacific Northwest.”

The ROOT Sports app can also be accessed by those with a “participating cable, satellite or streaming provider” through authentication at no extra cost, per the release.

Introducing ROOT SPORTS Stream!

Watch Mariners games in-market for just $19.99/month. No blackouts and no cable or satellite subscription needed.

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A look at Mariners’ TV situation

A streaming option for the Mariners appeared much more likely than before after a report in November by The Athletic’s Evan Drellich revealed that the Mariners had become the eighth team to join MLB’s “in-house broadcasting group,” with the league taking over the production aspects of Mariners TV broadcasts.

Mariners games have long been available to stream through an MLB.TV subscription, but that came with a huge caveat: M’s games through the service could only be watched by those out of market, with those in the team’s regional coverage area – which spans Washington, Oregon, Montana, Alaska and most of Idaho – blacked out.

MLB.TV has always been an out-of-market subscription service, as games for all teams were blacked out in their local markets due to contracts with regional sports networks (RSNs) or multi-channel service providers. But MLB’s broadcasting landscape has undergone a massive change in recent years as streaming subscriptions in general have become more prevalent, dealing a blow to the RSN model.

A key domino to fall was the bankruptcy of Diamond Sports Group, setting off a chain of events that left some teams without RSN homes and has since freed multiple franchises from contracts, allowing them to make streaming subscriptions available in their local markets. Others have found ways into the streaming world with a similar model to the new ROOT service, with RSNs being made available via standalone subscriptions.

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While the Mariners have MLB now producing their broadcasts, their arrangement with the league is unique in that their games are still distributed through a RSN which they themselves own, whereas MLB distributes the broadcasts of the other teams under their umbrella. The Mariners have owned 100% of ROOT Sports Northwest since Jan. 1, 2024 after initially having a 71% stake in the channel starting in 2013.

While making ROOT Northwest available as a standalone subscription is a big step for the Mariners, more options could be coming. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred told The Athletic in November that the league is angling to get all teams under its umbrella in order to create new national TV packages in 2028, and in-market streaming appears to be a key priority. That came after Manfred reportedly told MLB owners in February 2024 that he was targeting an in-market digital package from the league to be made available in time for the 2025 season.

This is the second notable change to the Mariners’ broadcasting situation ahead of the 2025 season. The M’s also have new announce teams on the Seattle Sports radio and ROOT Sports TV broadcasts, though every voice on the two teams should be familiar to fans. Click here for details on those changes.

The Mariners are currently in their last week of spring training in Arizona. Opening day for the regular season will be a 7:10 p.m. game on Thursday, March 27 against the Athletics (yes, they’re just the Athletics now) at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park.

M’s on the radio

The radio broadcasts of Mariners games air live on the Mariners Radio Network, which includes flagship station Seattle Sports 710 AM. All games stream for free on the Seattle Sports app for listeners in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia and Alaska.

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Mariners Radio Network broadcasts during the regular season begin with the pregame show at least 65 minutes before first pitch.

For details on how to hear Mariners radio broadcasts from Seattle Sports, click here.