The Los Angeles Angels, who recently completed a season sweep of crosstown rivals Los Angeles Dodgers, have more eyeballs watching them – and not all of them are at The Big A.
Fans of the team once known as the Anaheim Angels have a direct-to-consumer streaming option to watch the Halos in action this season, thanks to FanDuel Sports Network.
Angel games can be viewed through cable, satellite and now streaming – giving fans more options to watch Mike Trout hit home runs or Zach Neto make game-saving defensive plays. And more options means Angels’ owner Arte Moreno has several avenues to make money through media rights.
FanDuel Sports Network, which carries the Halos as part of the streamers’ MLB package for 2025, reported streaming audiences for Angels games were up 189% from Opening Day to the All-Star Break, July 14-16, compared to the same period last year.
A FanDuel Sports Network spokesperson said the Angels completing the season sweep versus the Dodgers on Aug. 13 “was our most widely streamed game of the season.”
“Angels fans have streamed more than 52 million minutes of game action this season between the FanDuel Sports Network app, FanDuelSportsNetwork.com and the Fan-Duel Sports Network channel on Prime Video,” the spokesperson said.
The minutes watched—a key metric in the industry—rose 272% compared to a year ago, according to a FanDuel Sports Network statement shared with the Business Journal.
Streaming Service and Media Rights
The FanDuel Sports Network has deals in place to stream baseball games for four MLB teams: the Angels, Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds.
A FanDuel Sports Network spokesperson said the streaming service hopes to add more MLB teams to its roster.
FanDuel Sports Network also offers direct-to-consumer streaming services for the Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Kings.
“We look at it as a multiplatform strategy. We want to give fans options to watch the Angels in the best way that works for them,” the FanDuel Sports Network spokesperson told the Business Journal. “We’re still available through major cable, satellite and virtual streaming providers across the region (for example Cox, Spectrum, DIRECTV, Fubo, U-Verse).
“And now our direct-to-consumer platform and Prime Video make it so 100% of the Angels local TV footprint has access to games,” he continued.
Financial details of the deal struck late last year between the Angels and Diamond Sports Group LLC, the entity that owns FanDuel Sports Network, were not disclosed.
Moreno hailed the accord as one of the Angels’ “top priorities,” giving fans of Halos baseball “new dynamic avenues” to watch games.
FanDuel Sports Network, in May, said the average watch time of baseball games on its streaming service increased 92.5 minutes, or 9%, year-over-year.
The network added it amassed more than 820 million streaming minutes in April, an increase of 79%, year-over-year.
