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MLB Network

MLB Network is an American television sports channel dedicated to baseball. It is primarily owned by Major League Baseball, with Skydance Corporation's TNT Sports, Comcast's NBC Sports Group and Charter Communications having minority ownership. The channel's headquarters and studios are located at their leased facilities in Secaucus, New Jersey, a building owned by Hartz Mountain Industries which formerly housed MSNBC's studios. MLB Network's studios also house NHL Network, which came under the management of MLB Advanced Media in mid-2015 and transferred most operations from the network's former Toronto home base. Tony Petitti, former executive producer of CBS Sports, was named the network's first president. Petitti served as MLB Network's president until December 2014, when he was appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball. Rob McGlarry, who worked as Senior and later Executive Vice-president of Business Affairs at MLB Network since 2009, was named the network's second president. , MLB Network is available to approximately 31,000,000 pay television households in the United States, down from its 2013 peak of 71,000,000 households, though the network is also available separately through the league's app, either as a monthly offering or bundled into its streaming service, MLB.tv.

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MLB Network is an American television sports channel dedicated to baseball. It is primarily owned by Major League Baseball, with Skydance Corporation's TNT Sports, Comcast's NBC Sports Group and Charter Communications having minority ownership. The channel's headquarters and studios are located at their leased facilities in Secaucus, New Jersey, a building owned by Hartz Mountain Industries which formerly housed MSNBC's studios. MLB Network's studios also house NHL Network, which came under the management of MLB Advanced Media in mid-2015 and transferred most operations from the network's former Toronto home base. Tony Petitti, former executive producer of CBS Sports, was named the network's first president. Petitti served as MLB Network's president until December 2014, when he was appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball. Rob McGlarry, who worked as Senior and later Executive Vice-president of Business Affairs at MLB Network since 2009, was named the network's second president. , MLB Network is available to approximately 31,000,000 pay television households in the United States, down from its 2013 peak of 71,000,000 households, though the network is also available separately through the league's app, either as a monthly offering or bundled into its streaming service, MLB.tv.

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  1. publication date: 2012-06-13 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the publication date is "2012-06-13". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

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