Case Study: MLB Network achieves $6–8M in labor savings and reduces reconciliation from 1 week to 4 hours with Board

Resource Management & Cost Analysis at MLB Network Streamlining the utilization and planning of 4,000 staff members and 20,000 shifts across multiple production entities with in-depth data insights

MLB Network, a growing sports broadcaster with roughly 4,000 employees managing about 20,000 shifts, struggled with spreadsheet- and SQL‑based processes to track journal entries, payroll and show costs across multiple production entities. As the business scaled from a small startup to a large-year‑round operation, manual reconciliation became slow and error-prone—booking roughly $200M in annual labor and taking up to a week to close the books.

Working with G7 Tech Services, MLB Network implemented the Board decision‑making platform to unify data sources, enable day‑ and hour‑level reporting, and standardize financial and shift tracking. The result: a single integrated solution that reduced month‑end reconciliation from one week to four hours, improved staff utilization (saving an estimated $6–8M in labor), streamlined budgeting and reporting for 20,000 shifts, and made it easy to absorb new business and scale reporting without rebuilding models.

MLB Network

Paul Ramos

Director of Financial Planning & Analysis