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Sports networks grappling with widespread cancellations and postponements of not just games but entire seasons used this past week to frenetically prep schedules leaning heavily on new or expanded studio talk shows, rebroadcasts of earlier matchups and library content, if they're lucky enough to have to have it…

UPDATED with Sinclair announcement: YouTube TV, the OTT platform owned by Google, has inked a deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group and will drop YES Network, Prime Ticket and Fox Sports West from its lineup but renew carriage of 19 other regional sports networks owned by the broadcaster. Sinclair said Wednesday that the…

The New York Yankees, Amazon Prime Video, and the YES Network have struck a deal to live stream 21 New York Yankees games this regular season on Prime Video at no additional cost to Prime members. The first is scheduled for April 17. Prime members in the Yankees home-team footprint in New York state, Connecticut…

Local sports will continue on YouTube TV for a while longer, as the service has reached a temporary agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group to Keep Fox Sports regional networks and the YES Network on board. The deal is in place while the two sides work on a longer-term carriage agreement. Pressure is on for a deal…

A major change may finally be coming to the streaming sports landscape, New York Yankees president Randy Levine hinted Thursday after the $3.5 billion sale of the YES Network formally closed. YES, which will now be owned by the Yankees, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Amazon and three private equity partners. The new…

The sale of the YES Network, the regional sports network home of the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Nets, to a consortium including the Amazon, the Yankees and Sinclair Broadcast Group, was finalized Thursday. At $3.47 billion, the transaction is the largest piece of turf in the larger landscape of the formerly…

The latest battlefront in the intensifying pay-TV carriage war is sports, with the YES Network and the regional sports networks formerly operated by Fox going dark on Dish Network on Friday. Disney ended up with the RSNs as a result of the 21st Century Fox deal, only to divest them to a group led by Sinclair Broadcast…

The YES Network, the most prominent of the 22 regional sports networks being unloaded by Disney as a condition of closing its 21st Century Fox acquisition, has been sold for $3.5 billion, according to multiple media reports. The buyers of the 80% of YES controlled by Fox are said to be a group that includes the New…

The New York Yankees, owners of 20% of regional sports network YES, are in talks with Amazon and Sinclair Broadcast Group about a bid for the remaining 80% of it, according to the Wall Street Journal. Disney is reviewing bids for the 22 RSNs owned by 21st Century Fox. As it moves toward the closing of its $71.3…

Amazon has joined the bidding for the 22 regional sports networks currently owned by 21st Century Fox that regulators are requiring Disney to sell off as part of its pending Fox acquisition, CNBC has reported. The digital giant, which already has a foothold in sports via NFL Thursday Night Football rights as well as…

The benches haven’t cleared yet. But there’s a lot of yelling from the dugouts at the Fox-controlled YES Network, which carries the New York Yankees, and Comcast a little more than three weeks before the baseball season begins. YES has been dark on Comcast since November 18. They aren’t in serious talks to change…

It’s been a big week for the New York Yankees. First the team won a bidding war for Japanese pitching phenom Masahiro Tanaka. Then, today, Fox announced that it will raise its stake in the team’s YES regional sports network to 80% from 49%. When the deal closes, expected by the end of March, YES Network will be…