The league’s central office said Monday that the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals have settled their media-rights disputes, ending a drama that has been in court for a decade and ultimately reaches back 20 years, to when the Nationals moved to Washington D.C. in 2005.

The two-decade-old agreement that kept the Washington Nationals from controlling their broadcast rights has been dissolved, Major League Baseball announced Monday. The MASN agreement, as it was known,

An multimillion-dollar off-field fight between the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles finally settled on Sunday. Why it matters: The end of the "MASN agreement" frees the Nats to sell its own TV rights.