2002-2003 Global Baseball League

It was announced in late 2001 that the 2002-2003 GBL season will happen in mid October of 2002.

Television & Streaming
GBL Worldwide Productions made an agreement with RealNetworks and Apple to stream all of their non-national games for free on RealPlayer and Apple's Quicktime. The games will use the highest quality available, 480i, to stream the games. Lower quality options are also available. For television coverage, it was announced that TNN will not renew their coverage of Saturday Night Baseball, and that HDNet will be one of two cable broadcasters for regular season play, with FX being the other cable partner. This cable partnership only lasted this season. FOX Sports and ABC Sports, along with ESPN and HDNet, launched an agreement to have exclusive coverage of the postseason for three seasons. (HDNet dropped out of their postseason contract after this season, however)

UPN and The WB still hold their Tuesday Night/Friday Night baseball slot for two more seasons.

Schedule
The schedule was again increased to 124, which would stay that way until the mid 2000s.

Broadcasters

 * UPN (Tuesday Night GBL)
 * The WB (Friday Night GBL)
 * HDNet (Saturday Afternoon GBL)
 * FX (Saturday Night GBL)

Playoffs

 * ESPN2 (Wildcard)
 * ESPN2/FOX/FX/ABC/HDNet (Division Series)
 * FOX/ABC/ESPN2/HDNet (Championship Series)
 * FOX/ABC (Global Finals)