24 Facts About YES Network

YES Network's offices are based at the Chrysler Building in Midtown Manhattan.

YES Network programs, including Yankees and Nets pre- and post-game shows, are produced in studios that are located in Stamford, Connecticut.

YES Network is the product of a holding company founded in 1999 called YankeeNets, created out of a merger of the business operations of the Yankees and the New Jersey Nets.

Two years earlier in 1997, Cablevision – which at the time had owned the Nets' television broadcaster, SportsChannel New York – became the sole owner to the television rights of all seven Major League Baseball, NBA and NHL teams in the New York City market when it acquired the competing MSG YES Network, which had held the broadcast rights to the Yankees since 1989.

The first game broadcast on YES Network was an exhibition game against in which the New York Yankees faced the Cincinnati Reds at 7 PM on the same day.

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At its launch, YES was available on DirecTV and to subscribers of all major New York area cable providers except Cablevision which would refuse to add the network for the 2002 season .

The sale did not include the Nets' ownership stake in YES Network, which remained with the pre-merger owners of the team.

News Corporation's interest in YES was transferred to 21st Century Fox, when the former company spun off its U S entertainment holdings into a separate company in July 2013.

Since the network's debut, YES has aired select telecasts of the Yankees' minor league farm teams, primarily the Class-A Staten Island Yankees of the New York–Penn League.

Those games are produced by YES Network, utilizing the same graphics and announcers as seen during game telecasts of the major league Yankees.

YES Network has broadcast various college sports events including football and basketball games from the Ivy League, basketball games from the Big 12 Conference and rebroadcasts of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football games.

In 2011, YES Network began airing live broadcasts of college basketball games involving the Fordham University.

The Giants' relationship with YES Network ended in 2007, at which time its team-related programming moved to Fox owned-and-operated station WNYW and MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station WWOR-TV, a duopoly owned by Fox Television Stations .

YES Network produces Yankees game broadcasts shown on Streaming Service Amazon Prime Video using the same on-air talent seen on the cable network.

YES Network offers a Spanish-language feed of all of its Yankees game telecasts through the second audio program; this feed can be heard on New York radio station WADO, which current holds the contract to carry the Yankees' Spanish-language broadcasts.

YES Network attempted to secure television rights to the New Jersey Devils, formerly owned by an affiliate of YankeeNets; after the team was sold to a different ownership group, the Devils opted to renew their contract with MSG YES Network and FSN New York in 2005, under a long-term agreement.

In December 2014, YES Network announced it had acquired local broadcast rights to New York City FC of Major League Soccer, a subsidiary of Manchester City FC.

YES Network acquired the local broadcast rights to the WNBA's New York Liberty in 2019 after the team was sold by the Madison Square Garden Company to Brooklyn Nets minority owner Joseph Tsai.

YES Network HD is a 1080i high definition simulcast feed of the network, which is carried on select cable providers .

In 2005, YES began televising all Yankees games played east of the Mississippi River in high definition, with the network's HD telecasts expanding to encompass virtually all of the Yankees and Nets games in 2006.

All YES Network-produced Yankees and Nets game telecasts aired on WWOR-TV began broadcasting in HD in September 2006; however while the HD feed of the games is available to these outlets, the HD telecasts were not necessarily distributed to television stations outside of the New York City area that simulcast WWOR's game broadcasts.

At its launch, YES became embroiled in a carriage dispute with Cablevision, leaving the Yankees' game telecasts not available to the provider's game telecasts for an entire year; this led the New York state government to intervene and serve as negotiator for a temporary carriage agreement between YES and Cablevision.

YES Network was roundly criticized for this move, including its decision to use a fixed camera shot focused tightly on correspondent Kimberly Jones as she described the events surrounding her in general terms.

YES Network now sends its reporter to the regular pre-game and post-game media sessions with other broadcast outlets.