YES Network
The Yankees Entertainment and Sports (YES) Network is a New York City regional cable TV channel dedicated to broadcasting baseball games of the New York Yankees, who serve as the owner of the channel. YES made its debut on March 19, 2002; the Yankees' previous cable home was the MSG Network.
In addition to the cablecasts, the YES Network also produces the over-the-air broadcasts of Yankee games on WWOR-TV, using the same on-air crew. (From 2002 to 2004, WCBS-TV carried the broadcasts).
Since the fall of 2002, the channel also has been the television home of the New Jersey Nets.
YES also features original programs, some of which have won Emmys. Programming other than Yankees and Nets games includes Yankees Magazine, Nets Magazine, CenterStage, YES' Ultimate Road Trip, Yankeeography, a simulcast of WFAN's Mike and the Mad Dog and Kids On Deck, in additon to some college sports and minor league games. The channel is available in New York, Connecticut, and parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and nationally on DirecTV.
A dispute over being carried by Cablevision at the time of the channel's launch led to a year without Yankee games for all Cablevision subscribers until New York State stepped in.
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