Former New York Yankees star Derek Jeter is featured in a new advertising campaign for Altice USA.

The campaign is for Optimum Complete, which the company is billing as the GOAT, or “Greatest Offer of All Time.”

In the commercial, Jeter thinks when people in an Optimum store are whispering about The GOAT, they’re talking about him.

“It’s been a lot of fun partnering with Optimum on their latest Optimum Complete campaign,” Jeter said. “Not only was it great to see their focus on providing the best bundle options for the consumer, but this experience also was a first for me: working with a real goat!”

Optimum Complete is a bundle of Optimum Internet and Optimum Mobile that starts at $45 a month.

“We are thrilled to launch our new marketing campaign celebrating Optimum’s greatest offer of all time — the GOAT — alongside sports legend Derek Jeter,” said Leroy Williams, chief growth officer at Optimum, said. “Optimum Complete combines our most powerful connectivity products — internet and mobile — to make life easier for our customers and unlock big savings for them each month, and we couldn’t be happier to work with Derek to bring this campaign to life. Now, customers have the chance to see Optimum’s newest dynamic duo side by side to bring them the very best in internet and mobile bundles.”

Hall of famer Derek Jeter is joining Fox Sports as part of its Major League Baseball announcing team beginning with the 2023 season.

The announcement was made during Fox’s pregame coverage of Super Bowl LVII. Jeter walked out to join Fox Sports announcers Curt Menafee, Alex Rodriguez and Michael Strahan. Rodriguez was Jeter’s teammate on the New York Yankees.

Jeter is the latest high-profile retired athlete to join Fox Sports. NFL legend Tom Brady will be joining Fox Sports during the 2024 season as a game analyst.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Jeter, who was reserved with the press during his time as captain of the Yankees, in 2014 helped start the Players Tribune, a website that allowed players to tell their stories without going through traditional media. The site was sold to MInute Media in 2019.

At MLB on Fox, Jeter will work with Rodriguez, David Ortiz, Frank Thomas and Kevin Burkhardt. ■

Docuseries The Captain, about Yankees standout Derek Jeter, debuts on ESPN and ESPN Plus July 18. Episode one runs after the MLB All-Star Home Run Derby. There are seven episodes. 

Randy Wilkins directed the ESPN Films series. 

“He was the face of the New York Yankees, a five-time World Series champion, the most popular and admired player in baseball, and one of the great sports superstars of any age,” says ESPN. “The Captain tells the story of Derek Jeter’s life and Hall of Fame career in a seven-part docuseries that’s anchored by exclusive, extensive, unprecedentedly candid interviews with Jeter, along with his family and dozens of teammates, rivals, and observers.” 

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The series features interviews with Jeter, his mother and father, his sister, his wife, Hannah, Yankees mates Roger Clemens, Tino Martinez, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, Willie Randolph, Mariano Rivera, Alex Rodriguez, C.C. Sabathia, Darryl Strawberry, Joe Torre and Bernie Williams, and hip-hop artists Fat Joe and Jadakiss. 

“We set out on a journey to discover the man behind the iconic Yankees number two jersey,” said Wilkins. “The series gives insight into a Hall of Fame baseball career, but more importantly, we reveal a person who sits at multiple intersections of American culture. The Captain is a story about race, media, celebrity culture, and the insatiable drive to be the best version of yourself.” 

The first episode details Jeter’s upbringing as a biracial child in the Midwest and getting drafted by the Yankees. ■

Officials at YES Network said the channel widened its lead as the most-watched regional sports network in primetime and total-day during the third quarter.

The RSN, the cable home to the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Nets, averaged 73,000 households in the New York DMA during the third quarter, according to Nielsen data, a 26% jump from the 58,000 in the second quarter of 2014.  

As such, YES expanded its primetime delivery edge by 33% over the second-ranked RSN, FS Detroit, in the third quarter, versus a 23% advantage over NESN in the second quarter.

That primetime performance also gave YES an 87% lead over the 39,000 average for the next most-watched New York-based RSN, SNY, in the quarter. YES’s 73,000 average household mark nipped the combined 72,000 for SNY’s and MSG in the period.

Relative to total day, YES averaged 28,000 households in the New York market, up 17% from its second-quarter average of 24,000 in the second quarter. Those tallies pushed YES ahead of FS Detroit by 47% in the most recently completed quarter, up from 41% in the second quarter, when NESN placed second with this measure.

In New York, YES’ total-day delivery outpaced SNY and MSG’s 25,000 combined average through the third quarter.

YES’s prime product, New York Yankees game telecasts, averaged 223,000 households in the New York DMA during the 2014 season -- the last campaign for future Hall of Famer, Derek Jeter (pictured) --  a 15% year-over-year increase from the 194,000 for Bronx Bombers’ games in the 2013 campaign.

On the demo watch, 2014 Yankees’ telecasts registered a 28% advance among men 25 to 54; 20% against guys 18+ and adults 25 to 54; and 18% versus persons 2+ and those 18 and older.  

YES viewers said hello to Derek Jeter in his Yankee Stadium farewell in record numbers.

The regional sports network home to the Bronx Bombers connected on a 10.84 household rating in the New York DMA on Sept. 25, translating into 1.25 million viewers, YES's most ever, according to Nielsen data.

YES officials said they believe the tally made it the most-viewed game telecast ever for any New York RSN

The entire game telecast was the most-viewed program on any single network in the New York DMA on Sept. 25, including the competing New York Giants’ victory over Washington which drew 1.225 million viewers on New York’s CBS affiliate, WCBS The NFL Network garnered 218,000 viewers for its portion of the simulcast.

The Thursday night telecast of the Yankees' 6-5 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Jeter's walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth (pictured) peaked with 1.99 million watchers from 10:15 to 10:30 p.m. (ET), making it the most-viewed quarter hour in YES history.

The pregame show averaged a 2.97 rating and 304,000 viewers, the third most ever for the prorgram.  For its part, the postgame show posted a 3.68 rating and 400,000 watchers, connecting on its fifth-largest audience.

For one man's take on the proceedings at Yankee Stadium, click here.

The New York Yankees will pay tribute to Derek Jeter on Sunday and YES Network will be along for The Captain’s ride.

The regional sports network home to the Yankees will present a special Jeter pre-game show at noon, featuring tributes from fellow MLBers, other athletes and celebrities and culminating with coverage of the live ceremony from the big ballpark in The Bronx.

YES at 1 p.m. will follow with its presentation of the rubber match of the three-game set against the Kansas City Royals.

After the ballgame, YES will serve up Derek Jeter: Salute2 The Captain, a two-hour special that will showcase Meredith Marakovits’ sitdown with the future Hall of Famer, who will talk about his favorite teammates and his toughest opponents, as well as discuss his image and his career.

The special will also include “Jeter's Journey,” a feature reported and narrated by Jack Curry with interviews with people who played major roles in Jeter's development: Yankee executive Gene Michael; Mike Hinga (Jeter's summer travel baseball coach); Gary Denbo (his minor league coach); former Yankees first base coach Brian Butterfield; and ex-teammate Luis Sojo.

There will also be tributes from MLB players, stars from other sports, and other celebrities

Vignettes, highlighting Jeter's top career moments, are also on tap: “The Dive”; his first career hit, 3,000th, passing Gehrig on all-time Yankees hit list; "Mr. November"; and Jeffrey Maier, among them.

The show will also feature a review of the gifts he has received from opponents throughout this seaon

Bob Lorenz, Jack Curry and John Flaherty will be in the YES studio, and Michael Kay, Paul O'Neill, David Cone and Meredith Marakovits will be at the Stadium.

The Bronx Bombers are only even on the field at the All-Star break, but YES Network’s audience with New York Yankees telecasts grew by almost a quarter during the first half of the 2014 Major League Baseball season.

Averaging 283,000 viewers in the New York DMA with its Yankees games, YES concluded the first half of the 2014 MLB campaign as the most-watched regional sports network in both primetime and total day.  That was up 24% from the 228,000 watchers in the first half of last season, according to Nielsen data. Interest in the club no doubt has been stoked by the final season of Yankees captain Derek Jeter and the performance of Japanese import Masahiro Tanaka, who is now on the disabled list with an elbow injury.

Yankees game ratings were up by double-digits in key demos:  29% for males 18 to 49; 31% for males 25 to 54; 16% for persons 18 to 49 ; 23% for persons 25 to 54.

Additionally, total viewership for Yankees pregame show was 28%, while the postgame grew 19% among total viewers.

Officials at YES, which has been the most-watched RSN in the country 10 of the past 11 years, said its performance also benefited from solid ratings with its simulcasts of ESPN Radio New York's Michael Kay Show. Since debuting on Feb. 3, the Kay simulcasts, hosted by YES’s principal play-by-play man on its Yankees telecasts, averaged 19,000 viewers in the New York DMA. That was 36% greater than the 14,000 average for its predecessor, The Mike Francesa Show during the same span in 2013.  Francesa’s show is now simulcast on FS1 and FS2.

During the first half of 2014, YES averaged 58,000 TV households in the New York DMA from Dec. 30, 2013 through June 29, 2014 during primetime (7 p.m. to 11 p.m.), a 16% gain over the corresponding period in 2013.  The delivery was 23% more than NESN’s 47,000 in its hometown market of Boston, according to YES officials.

Gauged on a total-day basis (6 a.m. to 2 a.m.), YES posted a 14% gain to 24,000 households from 21,000 a year ago, to stand 41% of second-place NESN, which scored 17,000 homes in The Hub on average.

YES’s digital properties have also scored well, registering a 96% surge in video views, year-over-year, with an 18% gain in unique visitors to YESNetwork.com