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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ YES Network Teams Up with Jomboy Media for App, Linear Content ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ YouTube stalwart Jomboy will produce exclusive shows for app, programming for linear TV ]]>
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                                <p><a href="https://www.nexttv.com/tag/yes-network">YES Network</a> said Wednesday that it has partnered with Jomboy Media to produce original content exclusively for both the network’s app and linear channel.</p><p>Jomboy is known for its <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxVSzg7Tf44">breakdowns of baseball games</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Ue3z73ygU">other sports</a> -- especially its sometimes salty <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srWZ12XBWps">lip reading segments</a> -- that have been popular with YouTube viewers. According to YES, Jomboy will produce its “distinctive style of original content” exclusively for the YES app, while additional content from the company will appear on both the linear channel and <a href="https://www.yesnetwork.com/news/new-yes-app-launches-featuring-live-streamed-games-alternate-feed-and-game-highl">YES app</a>. All of the programming will be promoted heavily on both the YES and Jomboy platforms and both companies will explore “new joint programming concepts,” according to YES.</p><p>Jomboy founder Jimmy “Jomboy” O’Brien and partner Jake Storiale were scheduled to appear on YES’ <em>Yankees Hot Stove</em> show tonight (March 23) at 10:30 p.m.  </p><p><a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/apple-gets-rights-to-stream-friday-night-baseball-games">Also: Apple Gets Rights To Stream &apos;Friday Night Baseball&apos; Games</a></p><p>Among the programming that will appear exclusively on the YES app are <em>Pitching Coach</em>, a series where former Yankees great and current YES analyst David Cone pairs up with O’Brien and Storiale to provide Blitzball lessons. Blitzball is a backyard baseball game popular on Jomboy. Also exclusive to the app are select <em>Jomboy Watch Party</em> shows that will air in conjunction with select YES Yankees streamed telecasts, additional weekly content and other content to come. </p><p>For both the linear channel and app, Jomboy will produce <em>Best of Talkin’ Yanks</em>, a 30-minute best-of show culled from Jomboy’s popular <em>Talkin’ Yanks</em> podcast; and <em>Toeing the Slab</em>, 30-minute best-of shows from the podcast hosted by Cone, Justin Schackil and James Smyth. Jomboy will also make appearances across existing podcasts like <em>Talkin’ Yanks</em> and YES programs like <em>Yankees Hot Stove</em>. </p><div class="see-more see-more--clipped"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet hawk-ignore" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"Jomboy Media, YES Network ... two peas in a pod."That's right, @JomboyMedia and the YES Network have partnered. pic.twitter.com/R8ylu2zjDY<a href="https://twitter.com/YESNetwork/status/1506633249929502721">March 23, 2022</a></p></blockquote><div class="see-more__filter"></div></div>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ YES Network, Despite Streaming Blackout, Claims Best Opening Week in Nine Years ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Nielsen says RSN averaged 391,000 viewers for its first six telecasts of 2021 season ]]>
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                                <p>YES Network said Friday that it has averaged about 391,000 viewers for each of its first six telecasts during the opening week of the 2021 baseball season, its best showing since 2012 and comes despite being blacked out by a trio of streaming services.</p><p>YES Network has been without carriage on three top streaming services -- YouTube TV, Hulu Plus Live TV and FuboTV for months. The regional sports network, which airs New York Yankees baseball games in the New York metro area, cited Nielsen ratings for the New York DMA. According to YES, it was the <a href="https://twitter.com/YESNetwork/status/1380545459438112771 ">RSN’s best opening week since 2012</a>, when Nielsen said it averaged 416,000 viewers for the first week of that season. </p><p>That news comes after YES said its Opening Day game between the Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays <a href="https://www.yesnetwork.com/news/yes-sets-tv-streaming-records-thursday ">broke streaming records</a> for the channel. YES said its April 1 telecast of the game attracted 543,000 total viewers, including 72,739 unique viewers to its authenticated YES app. That made it the most streamed live game on the network ever, either on its <a href="https://www.yesnetwork.com/news/new-yes-app-launches-featuring-live-streamed-games-alternate-feed-and-game-highl">recently launched YES app</a> or its predecessor Fox Sports GO. </p><p><a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/bally-sports-networks-strike-out-with-streamers-on-opening-day">Also Read: Bally Sports RSNs Strike Out with Streamers on Opening Day</a></p><p>YES went dark to <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/youtube-tv-dropping-sinclair-sports-networks ">YouTube TV</a> and <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/hulu-dropping-sinclair-regional-sports-networks ">Hulu Live Plus TV</a> customers in October. <a href="https://thestreamable.com/news/fox-rsns-yes-network-dropped-from-fubotv-after-deal-expires-without-new-extension-with-sinclair">FuboTV</a> dropped the channel in January. The Yankees network is available via traditional distributors like Comcast, Charter Communications, Altice USA’s Optimum, DirecTV and Verizon Fios in the New York metro area.  </p><p>Sinclair Broadcast Group owns a minority interest in YES and has been negotiating carriage talks for that channel as well as 21 former Fox Sports RSNs. Those former Fox sports channels -- rebranded under the Bally Sports name on March 31 --  also are not available on the streaming services, but <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/changes-at-sinclairs-rsn-just-start-with-name-change ">Sinclair officials have said </a>they are trying to work on a deal. </p><p><a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/rsns-scramble-for-streaming-deals-as-opening-day-approaches ">Also Read: RSNs Scramble for Streaming Deals as Opening Day Approaches</a></p><p>The lack of streaming RSN programming isn’t limited to the Bally Sports Networks and YES. Sling TV, the OTT arm of satellite TV service Dish Network, which dropped the former Fox Sports RSNs in 2019, has been without Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), home of the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals, and three NBC Sports RSNs (NBC Sports Washington, NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports California) since <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/dish-subscribers-lose-masn-nbc-rsns-on-opening-day ">April 1.</a></p>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ YouTube TV Says No to YES ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ YouTube TV Says No to YES ]]>
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                                <p>After what seemed like a reprieve in the increasingly tense carriage negotiations between YouTube TV and Sinclair Broadcast Group regional sports networks, the Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network (YES), which includes Sinclair as a minority partner, said it has been dropped by the streaming video service.</p><p>“YouTube TV, for its own selfish reasons and with total disregard for its YES customers, has refused to pay the market rate and accept market terms and conditions that other YES distributors have agreed to,” YES said in a statement. “In fact, YouTube TV sought a rate that was well below what other YES distributors are paying, and because YES keeps its word to all of its distributors, it could not make the deal. When YouTube TV realized it could not get a sweetheart, below-market deal, it dropped the YES Network.”</p><p>YouTube TV appeared to avoid a blackout of several Sinclair-owned RSNs earlier this week, when after threats to drop the networks, YouTube TV <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/sinclair-extends-fox-rsns-as-youtube-tv-talks-continue" data-original-url="https://www.multichannel.com/news/sinclair-extends-fox-rsns-as-youtube-tv-talks-continue">agreed to an extension</a> that would keep the channels on the service while talks continued. But even that seems to be subject to interpretation, according to a statement from YES.</p><p>[embed]https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1235541185919320070[/embed]</p><p>YES was <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/yankees-team-up-with-amazon-sinclair-on-yes-network" data-original-url="https://www.multichannel.com/news/yankees-team-up-with-amazon-sinclair-on-yes-network">purchased by a group</a> including the New York Yankees, Amazon and Sinclair in August for an estimated $3.47 billion from The Walt Disney Co., which was forced to divest its RSNs as part of federal approval of its $71.3 billion purchase of 21st Century Fox assets.</p><p>[embed]https://twitter.com/YESNetwork/status/1235452211880222720[/embed]</p><p>“Sinclair, for its own reasons, elected to make a deal for some but not all of its programming services which excluded large-market RSNs featuring iconic franchises and star players,” YES continued in its statement. “The New York Yankees have made it clear to Major League Baseball and YouTube TV that the Yankees will not appear on any national games televised by YouTube TV through its national telecast agreement with Major League Baseball. We urge all of our fans to go to YESNetwork.com to see the list of other streaming services and other distributors that carry the YES Network. With YouTube TV no longer carrying YES, it appears as though YouTube TV customers will pay the same while getting less.”</p><p>[embed]https://twitter.com/EricFisherSBG/status/1235533599161462789[/embed]</p>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ YouTube TV Blacks Out YES Network ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ YES Network said it is no longer on YouTube TV, which might signal a breakdown in talks between Sinclair Broadcast Group, which acquired a group of regional sports networks and one of the largest virtual multichannel video programming distributors. ]]>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ jon.lafayette@futurenet.com (Jon Lafayette) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Jon Lafayette ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                    <dc:source><![CDATA[ http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JGsRM7YbKg526Qh475nwCf.jpg ]]></dc:source>
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                                <p>YES Network said it is no longer on YouTube TV, which might signal a breakdown in talks between Sinclair Broadcast Group, which acquired a group of regional sports networks and one of the largest virtual multichannel video programming distributors.</p><p>Last week, YouTube said it would drop the 21 Sinclair RSNs and YES, but at the last minute said they would continue to appear under an extension as negotiations continued.</p><p>But Wednesday night, YES issued a statement that YouTube TV was no longer carrying the network, which was acquired from The Walt Disney Co. by a group that included the Yankees, Sinclair and Amazon.</p><p>“YouTube TV, for its own selfish reasons and with total disregard for its YES customers, has refused to pay the market rate and accept market terms and conditions that other YES distributors have agreed to," YES said in a statement. "In fact, YouTube TV sought a rate that was well below what other YES distributors are paying, and because YES keeps its word to all of its distributors, it could not make the deal. When YouTube TV realized it could not get a sweetheart, below-market deal, it dropped the YES Network.” </p><p>YES earlier this week announced that some Yankee games would be streamed on Amazon Prime Video. Those games would also be broadcast on WPIX-TV in New York.</p><p>But it appeared that some of Sinclair’s other RSNs were dark on YouTube TV, but not all of them.</p><p>“Sinclair, for its own reasons, elected to make a deal for some but not all of its programming services which excluded large-market RSNs featuring iconic franchises and star players. The New York Yankees have made it clear to Major League Baseball and YouTube TV that the Yankees will not appear on any national games televised by YouTube TV through its national telecast agreement with Major League Baseball,” YES said. “We urge all of our fans to go to YESNetwork.com to see the list of other streaming services and other distributors that carry the YES Network. With YouTube TV no longer carrying YES, it appears as though YouTube TV customers will pay the same while getting less.”</p><p>Spokespeople for YouTube and Sinclair did not respond to requests for information.</p>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Amazon, Yes Network to Stream Yankee Games ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ 21 regular season games available at no cost to Prime subscribers ]]>
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                                <p>The New York Yankees, Amazon Prime Video and the YES Network said they plan to stream 21 regular-season Yankees baseball games on prime video.</p><p>The games will be available at no additional cost to Prime subscribers. The games will be simulcasts of games produced by and airing on WPIX-TV, New York.</p><p>Amazon was one of the investors when The Walt <a href="https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/disney-sells-yes-network-to-group-including-sinclair">Disney Co. sold YES Network</a> to a group led by the Yankees and Sinclair Broadcast Group.</p><p>Related: <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/youtube-tv-dropping-sinclairs-sports-nets">YouTubeTV Drops Sinclair&apos;s Regional Sports Nets</a></p><p>“We understand that fans are consuming content in a variety of different ways, and we believe our unique partnership with Amazon represents an exciting development in the realm of live sports,” said Hal Steinbrenner, CEO, Yankee Global Enterprises. “We are committed to exploring new ideas and delivering an array of top-quality viewing options, as well as accompanying new innovations, such as Amazon’s X-Ray technology feature, which will make in-game stats, team and player details, and play-by-play information readily accessible in real-time during the games on Prime Video.”</p><p>The games will feature Amazon’s X-Ray technology will give fans access to in-game stats, information about players and real-time play-by-play information.</p><p>Related: <a href="https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/sinclair-closes-acquisition-of-regional-sports-networks">Sinclair Closes Acquisition of Regional Sports Networks</a></p><p>“We are always looking for ways to enhance the value of a Prime membership for our customers, and we believe Yankees fans are going to love having a selection of games on Prime Video this season,” said Marie Donoghue, VP of global sports video at Amazon. “We want to give Prime members access to the broadest selection of content across the broadest number of devices, and this deal gives Prime Video the opportunity to work with the top regional sports network in America and one of the most beloved franchises in all of sports.”</p><p>“We are excited about teaming up with the New York Yankees and Amazon to make these 21 over-the-air games available through Prime Video,” added Jon Litner, CEO, YES Network. “As consumption habits among Yankees fans continue to evolve, we’re embracing new and innovative technologies to enhance the viewer experience.”</p><p><strong>Here is the schedule of games on Prime Video</strong></p><p>Friday, April 17                         Cincinnati             7:00 pm</p><p>Tuesday, April 21                     @Detroit              6:30 pm</p><p>Saturday, April 25                     Cleveland             1:00 pm</p><p>Friday, May 8                           Boston                 7:00 pm</p><p>Friday, May 15                         @Houston           8:00 pm</p><p>Friday, May 22                         Seattle                 7:00 pm</p><p>Saturday, May 23                     Seattle                 1:00 pm</p><p>Wednesday, May 27                 Minnesota            7:00 pm</p><p>Sunday, June 21                      @Minnesota        2:00 pm</p><p>Wednesday, June 24                Baltimore             7:00 pm</p><p>Tuesday, June 30                     @Baltimore          7:00 pm</p><p>Wednesday, July 22                   Angels                 7:00 pm</p><p>Friday, July 24                         Boston                 7:00 pm</p><p>Wednesday, July 29                   @Mets                7:00 pm</p><p>Monday, August 10                  @Kansas City      8:00 pm</p><p>Friday, August 21                     Toronto                7:00 pm</p><p>Friday, August 28                     @Cleveland         7:00 pm</p><p>Thursday, September 10          Boston                 7:00 pm</p><p>Sunday, September 20             @Toronto            1:00 pm</p><p>Wednesday, September 23       Houston               7:00 pm</p><p>Friday, September 25               Tampa Bay          7:00 pm</p>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ No Game, No Talks Between YES, Comcast ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ No Game, No Talks Between YES, Comcast ]]>
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                                <figure class="van-image-figure pull-" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' ><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="yYenSRQcjxQURJbHPeXiAk" name="" alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yYenSRQcjxQURJbHPeXiAk.jpg" mos="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yYenSRQcjxQURJbHPeXiAk.jpg" align="" fullscreen="" width="" height="" attribution="" endorsement="" class="pull-"></p></div></div></figure><p><strong>RELATED:</strong><a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/opening-day-doubt-ny-la-403799" data-original-url="https://www.multichannel.com/news/opening-day-doubt-ny-la-403799">Opening Day in Doubt in N.Y., L.A.</a> [subscription required]</p><p>As dark clouds surrounded the New York area Monday, postponing the New York Yankees Opening Day game with the Houston Astros until Tuesday (April 5), hopes were even dimmer that the extra day could help unlock the impasse in negotiations between Comcast and the regional sports network that carries the games – the Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network.</p><p><a href="https://weather.com/weather/5day/l/USNJ0490:1:US">Cold, rainy weather</a>  threatened the New York area on Monday, forcing Yankee Stadium to roll out the tarp and hope for better conditions Tuesday. On the YES Network website, the regional sports network said the game would be rescheduled  to April 5 at 1:05 p.m., and would be broadcast on the channel, “except in areas serviced by Comcast.”</p><p>Representatives from both Comcast and YES Network said there are no current carriage talks between the two. Comcast has about 900,000 subscribers in parts of New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.</p><p>Tuesday’s contest is expected to be a <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/keuchel-vs-tanaka-again-astros-open-yanks-rematch-224203294--mlb.html;_ylt=AwrBTzzKiAJXEwsAWnRXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTExZzQ0YmY1BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDVUlDMV8xBHNlYwNzYw--">rematch of the 2015 American League Wild Card game</a>, pitting Yankees fire-balling right-hander Masahiro Tanaka against Astros <a href="http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14164950/dallas-keuchel-houston-astros-wins-american-league-cy-young-award">2015 Cy Young Award winner</a> Dallas Keuchel.  The Astros won the AL Wild Card last year, only to be defeated in the Divisional matchup by eventual World Series winner the Kansas City Royals.</p><p>YES and Comcast have been embroiled in a carriage dispute since November. The <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/opening-day-doubt-ny-la-403799" data-original-url="https://www.multichannel.com/news/opening-day-doubt-ny-la-403799">YES/Comcast imbroglio</a> is mirrored on the West Coast as operators other than Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications and Bright House Networks (all expected to merge shortly) have passed at carrying the regional sports channel – SportsNetLA – that airs the <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/ops-reject-sweetened-dodger-rsn-offer-403721" data-original-url="https://www.multichannel.com/news/ops-reject-sweetened-dodger-rsn-offer-403721">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>. In both disputes, the high price of the networks is considered the main sticking point in negotiations.    </p>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Legislators Urge YES, Comcast To Play Ball ]]></title>
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                                <figure class="van-image-figure pull-" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' ><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="n6eHrHoBhY5djFSqFBp4B9" name="" alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/n6eHrHoBhY5djFSqFBp4B9.jpg" mos="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/n6eHrHoBhY5djFSqFBp4B9.jpg" align="" fullscreen="" width="" height="" attribution="" endorsement="" class="pull-"></p></div></div></figure><p>A group of 30 Connecticut state legislators have crafted a letter to Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts and Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network chief Tracy Dolgin to put aside their differences and work out a deal to bring the regional sports network back to viewers in the state by April 4, the start of the New York Yankees regular season.</p><p>YES and Comcast have been at an impasse since Nov. 28, when the RSN’s contract with the cable operator expired. The blackout has affected about 900,000 Comcast customers in New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.</p><p>In the <a href="http://patch.com/connecticut/wallingford/comcast-yes-network-dispute-its-time-play-ball-ct-legislators-say-0">letter,</a> authored by State Rep. Sean Scanlon (D-Guilford), the legislators pointed out that the Yankees are Connecticut’s most popular baseball team – 44% of state resident claim an allegiance to the pinstripes, according to a Quinnipiac University poll – and viewership of YES was up about 20% last season, according to Nielsen.</p><p>“Hundreds of thousands of our constituents rightfully expect to have the ability to watch Opening Day from the comfort of their homes on April 4, 2016 and we hope you will put aside your respective differences between now and then to ensure Connecticut’s Yankees fans – including all of boys and girls who are just learning to love the game – are not denied access to the 2016 season,” the letter stated.</p><p>The legislators’ lament comes just a day after YES stepped up its campaign to encourage Comcast customers in the affected markets to switch providers, encompassing a print, radio and TV blitz that urges “Xfinity Strikes Out. Drop Comcast Today.”</p><p>In a statement, YES network said it was more than willing to restart talks with the distributor.</p><p>"YES Network sincerely appreciates the efforts of Connecticut legislators and leaders across the region to help get our network back on the Comcast lineup," Dolgin said in a statement. "We are particularly grateful for their recognition of the indisputable fact that the New York Yankees are extremely popular with viewers and that the YES Network's ratings are consistently among the highest of any channel on television when the Yankees are playing. For our part, we were extremely surprised and disappointed when Comcast unilaterally dropped YES in the dead of night last November, and we stand ready to negotiate a deal with Comcast immediately.<strong>:</strong></p><p>Earlier this week Dolgin made the local media rounds, offering little encouragement that a deal could be reached in time for the first pitch of the regular season.</p><p>“Hope is not a strategy,” Dolgin told the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/sports/baseball/amid-impasse-yes-tells-comcast-customers-to-switch-providers.html?_r=0"><em>New York Times</em>.</a> “You have to find another provider.”</p><p>This isn’t the first dispute between YES and a New York area distributor. YES was dark to Cablevision Systems customers for more than a year before <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/yes-its-again-not-day-too-late-152005" data-original-url="https://www.multichannel.com/news/yes-its-again-not-day-too-late-152005">reaching a deal</a> less than 30 minutes  before the first pitch on Opening Day in April 2003. And Dish Network, which has balked at high sports charges, has never carried the channel. It also has never carried MSG.  </p><p>Comcast has held that price is the main issue – according to SNL Kagan YES is the priciest RSN in the country at $5.36 per subscriber per month – and that it can’t justify what it says is the network’s demand for a 33% increase in affiliate fees. In the past Comcast has said its subscribers in the New York metro area don’t watch YES, and haven’t complained that the network has gone dark.</p><p>But that was during the NBA season – YES carries the Brooklyn Nets, which have had a <a href="http://www.nba.com/standings/team_record_comparison/conferenceNew_Std_Cnf.html">difficult year.</a> The startup of the baseball season may raise the hackles of die-hard Yankees fans.</p><p>Dolgin told the <em>Times</em> that Comcast had been paying the increased price for more than nine months – originally its carriage deal expired in February 2015, but continued to carry the channel through a series of short extensions.  </p><p>In an interview, Comcast Cable executive vice president, consumer services Marcien Jenckes confirmed that Comcast had agreed to pay the increase, but was only during the extension period. The operator, he said, had hoped to work out a more favorable long-term deal.</p><p>“Our intention going into that discussion was to bridge the value gap,” Jenckes said, adding that Fox’s recent moves weren’t surprising given the network has been off Comcast systems since November.</p><p>When it became apparent that wasn’t going to happen, Comcast dropped the channel.</p><p>“The important thing to note is in the history of Comcast Cable, this is the first cable network we ever dropped,” Jenckes said.</p><p>Some observers have hinted that Comcast may have been more willing to absorb the increase early last year when it was still moving forward with its planned merger with Time Warner Cable, which has more than 1 million subscribers in the New York market. But that doesn’t explain why the company would continue to pay the increase past April, when it officially <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/comcast-walks-away-twc-390059" data-original-url="https://www.multichannel.com/news/comcast-walks-away-twc-390059">backed away from the TWC deal.</a></p><p>Jenckes admitted that Comcast’s priorities changed after it abandoned the TWC merger.</p><p>“The dynamic with Time Warner Cable does change what we feel we have to do in the New York market,” Jenckes said.  </p><p>Cable operators have increasingly pushed back at rising programming costs, and YES isn’t the only RSN that has lost carriage as a result. In the Los Angeles market, several operators have refused to carry Time Warner Cable’s SportsNet LA, which carries Los Angeles Dodgers baseball games, because of high fees.</p><p>Operators have been able to partially offset high RSN fees through monthly surcharges and Comcast, which had implemented a $1 per month RSN surcharge recently raised that fee to $3 per month. Jenckes said that increase had nothing to do with the YES dispute, adding that the increase does not come close to recouping the fees the operator doles out for sports channels. There are four RSNs in the New York market including YES – SNY, MSG and MSG-Plus.</p><p>Comcast, like other distributors, also raised rates across its footprint by about 4% this year, mainly to partially offset overall programming costs, which were up 7% in 2015.   </p><p>YES has disputed Comcast’s claims – it insists that Yankee fans are loyal watchers of the telecasts and cited Nielsen data that say ratings in Comcast households were up 21% in the second half of the 2015 season. According to YES, the network is the most-watched RSN in America and in the New York market the channel’s audience has been 69% greater than rival network SNY (home of the New York Mets) which Comcast distributes and in which it owns a minority interest.</p><p>While the battle appears to be over rates some people familiar with the network say other issues are involved as well, including most-favored nation status, which would ensure that no other distributor would get a better rate than Comcast. MFNs are usually given to the largest distributors in a market and Comcast, which is the largest cable operator in the country, doesn’t have the biggest footprint in New York. That designation would belong to Time Warner Cable and Cablevision Systems.</p><p>Jenckes said pricing is the main issue in the dispute adding that Fox Sports Networks Group, which owns a majority interest in YES and is heading up negotiations, is also attempting to “tie in things related to other networks.” He declined to elaborate.</p><p>YES denied that any other networks are being tied to its carriage negotiations.</p><p>“There’s no connection whatsoever,” YES said in a statement. “That’s just a smokescreen by Comcast to hide the fact that it broke its promise and dropped YES after agreeing to pay the fair market rate.  In fact, when Comcast dropped YES last November, its statement made no mention of anything other than YES.”</p><p>Jenckes said the parties had been negotiating as recently as three days ago, adding that Fox must have felt the talks weren’t going the way they expected, hence the ad campaign.</p><p>“Our intention going into that discussion was to bridge the value gap,” Jencks said, adding that Fox’s recent moves weren’t surprising given the network has been off Comcast systems since November.</p>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ YES, Comcast Deadline Passes With No Deal ]]></title>
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                                <figure class="van-image-figure pull-" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' ><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="erATyGtdzWktyj9tz675Go" name="" alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/erATyGtdzWktyj9tz675Go.jpg" mos="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/erATyGtdzWktyj9tz675Go.jpg" align="" fullscreen="" width="" height="" attribution="" endorsement="" class="pull-"></p></div></div></figure><p>About 900,000 Comcast customers are without regional sports channel Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network after their carriage deal expired at midnight on Wednesday.</p><p>Comcast and YES reached an impasse in their carriage negotiations, which have been ongoing for months.</p><p>News of the impasse was first reported by the <a href="http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/business/comcast-to-drop-yes-network-if-contract-negotiations-fail-1.1972157">Scranton-Times Tribune.</a></p><p>According to SNL Kagan, YES Network is the most expensive RSN in the country at $4.89 per subscriber per month, offering New York Yankees Major League Baseball games, Brooklyn Nets National Basketball Association contests and MLS soccer games from the New York City FC.</p><p>YES is one of four regional sports networks in the New York area – SportsNet New York (co-owned by Comcast), MSG and MSG Plus are the others – and the only one with rights to both baseball and basketball. SNY airs New York Mets MLB games while MSG and MSG Plus has rights to New York Knicks NBA basketball and NHL hockey from the New York Rangers, New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils.</p><p>The standoff comes after months of negotiations – Comcast’s YES deal officially expired in February and the network gave repeated extensions, through the baseball season and into the first weeks of professional basketball.</p><p>While Comcast may not have wanted to ruffle any regulator feathers earlier in the year when it was still moving forward with its since-abandoned deal to acquire Time Warner Cable (it withdrew its offer in April), the cable powerhouse has apparently taken a harder stance – like its other peers – when it comes to programming negotiations.</p><p>Its resolve also may be bolstered by the <a href="http://www.nba.com/standings/team_record_comparison/conferenceNew_Std_Div.html">Nets’ poor record</a> so far this year – they have one win and nine losses. </p><p>Other operators have cited low ratings and high-prices when deciding whether to drop networks – Cable One and Suddenlink have been without Viacom networks for more than a year and DirecTV and FiOS TV have done without The Weather Channel for weeks at a time during contentious negotiations. Even YES has gone dark in the past – Cablevision Systems refused to carry the network for more than a year after it was first launched (and lost about 30,000 customers as a result), before restoring the channel in 2003. And Dish Network has never carried the RSN, and stopped carrying MSG and MSG Plus in 2010 and dropped SNY in 2011.</p><p>21st Century Fox’s <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/news-corp-connects-49-stake-yes-359798" data-original-url="https://www.multichannel.com/news/news-corp-connects-49-stake-yes-359798">Fox Sports Network Group bought a 49% interest in YES in 2012</a> (increasing it to 80% last year) and has been leading the RSN’s carriage negotiations for the past few years. During that time Fox has negotiated several big deals for the RSN, many with a larger New York metro area subscriber count than Comcast.</p><p>Comcast carries YES in Northern New Jersey, parts of Connecticut and the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, Pa. area. While not exactly a hotbed of Yankees fandom, Comcast has said in a statement that its 900,000 customers in those areas hardly watch the channel at all.</p><p>"YES Network carried approximately 130 baseball games this past season and well over 90 percent of our 900,000 plus customers who receive YES Network didn’t watch the equivalent of even one quarter of those games during the season, even while the Yankees were in the hunt for a playoff berth,” Comcast said in a statement. “Viewership of the network in the baseball offseason is even lower. FOX and the Yankees are asking all of our customers to pay them hundreds of millions of dollars over the next several years to continue receiving the channel. The price FOX and the Yankees are requiring from our customers is not acceptable given the Network’s minimal viewership, which is why we have decided we can no longer justify continuing to carry the Network. YES simply does not present an appropriate price-value proposition for our customers.” </p><p>YES, the most watched RSN the country, took exception to Comcast’s characterization. The network has also set up a <a href="http://www.KeepYesNetwork.com">web site</a> where customers can go for more information.</p><p>“As of midnight, Tuesday Nov. 17, and just weeks after the end of the baseball season, Comcast has decided to drop YES Network, home to the New York Yankees, Brooklyn Nets and New York City FC, with no advance notice to its subscribers,” YES said in a statement. “Comcast’s reputation for poor customer satisfaction is well known, but this surprise development represents a new low.  YES and Comcast reached an agreement in principle on the key points of a new contract many months ago, and YES continued to operate in good faith under that arrangement through the entire Yankees and NYCFC seasons and into the Nets season.  Unfortunately, because YES will not yield to Comcast’s demands for special treatment and anti-competitive terms, Comcast has decided to drop YES Network and its coverage of the NY Yankees, Brooklyn Nets and the New York City FC.” </p>
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                                <figure class="van-image-figure pull-" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' ><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="h5cHTnH3zYe7tyozSDU2t4" name="" alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/h5cHTnH3zYe7tyozSDU2t4.jpg" mos="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/h5cHTnH3zYe7tyozSDU2t4.jpg" align="" fullscreen="" width="" height="" attribution="" endorsement="" class="pull-"></p></div></div></figure><p>YES viewers said hello to Derek Jeter in his Yankee Stadium farewell in record numbers.</p><p>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.</p><p>YES officials said they believe the tally made it the most-viewed game telecast ever for any New York RSN</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>For one man's take on the proceedings at Yankee Stadium, <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/blog/jeterian-rewrite-384219" data-original-url="https://www.multichannel.com/blog/jeterian-rewrite-384219">click here.</a></p>
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                                <figure class="van-image-figure pull-" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' ><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="Qcb8p33gWxSfmtXLzSx8Gg" name="" alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Qcb8p33gWxSfmtXLzSx8Gg.jpg" mos="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Qcb8p33gWxSfmtXLzSx8Gg.jpg" align="" fullscreen="" width="" height="" attribution="" endorsement="" class="pull-"></p></div></div></figure><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Additionally, total viewership for Yankees pregame show was 28%, while the postgame grew 19% among total viewers.</p><p>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 <em>Michael Kay Show</em>. 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, <em>The Mike Francesa Show</em> during the same span in 2013.  Francesa’s show is now simulcast on FS1 and FS2.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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</p>
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