Twins Video
First off, here’s what you need to know. If you have a cable subscription, here is where you can watch the Twins on TV:
| Provider | Channel | More Information |
| Ace Telephone (AcenTek) | Channel 30 | |
| Algona Municipal Utilities | Will not partner due to costs | Announcement |
| BEVCOMM | HD = channel 36, non-HD = channel 436 | Listed on guide |
| Celect Communications | No Service Provided | |
| Consolidated Telcom | Channel 117 | Announcement |
| Consolidated Telephone Company (CTC) | Channel 32 | Announcement |
| DirecTV | Channel 668 or 668-3 | MLB Announcement |
| DISH | No Service Provided | MLB Channel Finder |
| Dickey Rural Services | Channel 217 | |
| DRN ReadiTech | Channel 217 | Announcement |
| Fubo | Available | MLB Channel Finder |
| Garden Valley Technologies | Channel 76 | Announcement |
| Gardonville Cooperative Telephone | Channel 37 | Announcement |
| Halstad Telephone Company | Channel 30 | Announcement |
| Hiawatha Broadband | Channel 121 | |
| Hulu + Live TV | No Service Provided | MLB Channel Finder |
| Interstate Telecommunications Company | HD = Channel 185; SD = 42 | Announcement |
| Mediacom | No Service Provided | |
| MidCo (MidConnect Cable) | Channel 638 | MLB Announcement |
| MLGC | Channel 123 | |
| Moore and Liberty Telephone | Will Be Availible | |
| North Dakota Telephone Company | Channel 46 | Announcement |
| Northwest Communications Cooperative | Channel 305; (Advanced TV = Channel 23) | Announcement |
| Park Region | Channel 103 | Announcement |
| Paul Bunyan Television | HD = channel 558, non-HD = channel 58 | Announcement |
| Philo | No Service Provided | MLB Channel Finder |
| Red River Telephone | Channel 35 | Announcement |
| Reservation Telephone Company | Channel 35 / Channel 335 | |
| Rockwell Cooperative Telephone Association | Channel 25 & 30 | Announcement |
| Runestone Telephone | HD = channel 26.1, non-HD = channel 27 | Announcement |
| SCI Broadband | Will Be Availible | |
| Sjoberg's Inc. | Digital Box: 45 or 645 HD, digital TV: 83 | Announcement |
| Sling TV | No Service Provided | MLB Channel Finder |
| Sparklight | No Service Provided | |
| Spectrum (Minnesota) | Channel 428 or 468 | MLB Announcement |
| Spectrum (Wisconsin) | Channel 319 | MLB Announcement |
| Spring Grove Communication | Channel 30 | Announcement |
| Tremolo Communications | HD = Channel 397; SD = Channel 97 | Announcement |
| Tri-County Communications | No Service Provided | |
| United Telephone Mutual Aid (United and Turtle Mountain Communications) | Channel 71 | |
| Venture Communications | Channel 24 | Announcement |
| West Central Telephone Association | HD = Channel 325; non-HD: Channel 25 | Announcement |
| Windomnet | HD = Channel 421; non HD= 60 | Announcement |
| Wikstrom Telephone Company | Channel 646 | |
| Xfinity / Comcast | Channel 1261 | MLB Announcement |
| YouTube TV | No Service Provided | MLB Channel Finder |
If you do not see your provider, check your zip code via the MLB Channel Finder.
As previously reported, the channel will be empty for most hours of the day and “turn on” before the game (30 minutes before home games, but only a few minutes before the start of road games).
Some cable providers will only be giving access to the channel to those who pony up for “elite” or “premier” service, as had been part of the central debate in last year’s Diamond Sports/Comcast debacle. For example, the North Dakota-based Consolidated Television will only offer Twins.TV on plans that our research suggests are around $60 extra per month.
That these deals took time and are being announced right before Opening Day is pretty much in line with what other markets went through in previous iterations. The Rockies and Diamondbacks announced their deals last year on March 28th. As the team has emphasized, MLB’s own negotiators are likely negotiating these deals.
The expected money from these cable deals is minimal, compared to the lucrative terms of former broadcast deals. They're meant purely as bridges—short-term patches as the team pushes its primary customer base to sign up for their streaming service—but the reality is that the Twins (like other teams) have a long road ahead to complete that conversion. Last year, the Padres saw only 40,000 subscribers on their DTC plan. The league will likely also continue to negotiate local ad sales for those channels to supplement the direct revenue from the carriers. Some reports suggested that teams under MLB's umbrella earned about $15 million from the league, though those details cannot be confirmed.
As of this week, 26 teams—including those with premium cable packages like the Dodgers and the Mets—offer direct-to-consumer options for in-market consumers. Some of the top markets will require a little more out of pocket. The Dodgers will charge $29.99 a month (and $199.99 for the year—double the Twins' rate) to watch them defend their World Series title.
This also comes just when the league has officially opted out of its contract with ESPN, which included $550 million a year for Sunday Night Baseball, the All-Star Game, and various playoff games—a portion of which, as is the case with all national broadcast revenue, went to the Twins. Behind the scenes, there's some optimism that the two sides will reunite on a renegotiated deal and that the network will still be a league partner come 2026, but that's far from certain. At every level, there's upheaval ahead for the league and its member clubs where TV money is concerned.
Rob Manfred continues to discuss a “master plan” that would bundle up the streaming rights to all 30 teams and facilitate a nationalized approach to broadcast rights similar to the what Adam Silver has done with the NBA. However, some teams (most notably, the Dodgers) are under traditional RSN contracts for another 10 years. Others might not be easy to sell on the collectivized mode; Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner has stated his preference that any league-wide plan be purely "optional," which is the sanitized way of saying that he'll do everything in his power to thwart it. But by the time those contracts are up, teaming up with Manfred might be the only way forward.
While most urban and suburban residents may be eager to cut the cord and find all their sports via streaming options, it is important to remember that there are still over 68 million Americans who subscribe to cable. For some, this is by choice, but for as many as a third of households, it's essentially by necessity. Wide swaths of Minnesotans, Dakotans, and Iowans in rural areas often rely on cable because broadband has yet to expand into their area. Plans to expand fiber broadband access were part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2021, under a program called BEAD, which would have included $652 million in federal funds to cover almost 200,000 households in rural Minnesota:
These plans had been slow to roll out amid careful examination of broadband options and feasibility across the entire United States. However, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick paused BEAD funding due to its “woke mandates.” According to BEAD director Evan Feinman, while the program included some political messaging, those messages were “never central to the mission of the program, nor were they significant in the actual conduct of the program.” However, Feinman (whose contract was not renewed this week) suggested to staff that the program will likely see major delays under Lutnick's plans.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported that Lutnick's department is considering revisions to the program that would transfer around $20 billion of the BEAD funds to Starlink, a satellite-based internet company founded by Elon Musk, As some experts have noted, Starlink satellites have a five-year service life, after which they are programmed to crash to Earth. By contrast, fiber cables could last decades and include future-proofing for any higher speeds necessary down the road. At any rate, these changes to the program mean that it will be quite a while before teams or the league can rely primarily on DTC streaming, since they can ill afford to alienate suburban and exurban fans whose cable subscriptions are quasi-required utilities and will balk at added costs.
This debate over internet access may seem tangential, but it remains critical for both the Twins and broader MLB's future. The Twins need to deliver their product to as many consumers as possible, and many of those consumers will be unwilling to switch to a standalone streaming product until they can access the internet at the required speeds. It's far from an ideal solution, for all involved, but it's something.
Please watch out for falling satellites, and enjoy Twins.TV!
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