For much of Twins Territory, watching games just got a lot easier.

Beginning in 2025, the Twins will have their television broadcasts produced and distributed by Major League Baseball. As a result of that, there will be continued availability on cable and satellite as well as a direct-to-consumer streaming option that will eliminate blackouts.

“Today is a good day. It’s an exciting day for the organization, but more importantly, for our fans and for our partners,” team president and CEO Dave St. Peter said. “It will propel us into the future with a direct-to-consumer streaming option that our fans have been desperately asking for. Long overdue, but we think today is a good day that moves us forward.”

The announcement comes after the Twins’ one-year deal with Diamond Sports Group, which runs Bally Sports North, ran out following the end of the season. While St. Peter said they considered going to MLB last season, they instead signed a one-year deal with their long-time partners for one final season.

Now, he said, the time is right for the move — MLB created this platform during the 2023 season and, given time to experiment with it, the model has been refined and “the platform that we’ll be on in 2025 will be better than where they were when they launched it,” St. Peter said — and doing it earlier in the offseason helps them provide more clarity for their fans around how to watch games after the process dragged out throughout last winter.

Per MLB, in 2023, the Twins reached 1.08 million homes. Next season, they’re expected to expand their reach to approximately 4.40 million homes.

St. Peter said he was not yet sure how much the direct-to-consumer streaming service will cost.