SportsNet New York
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SportsNet New York (
SNY) is an American
regional sports network that is owned by Sterling Entertainment Enterprises, LLC, itself a
joint venture between the
New York Mets(which owns a controlling 65% interest),
Charter Communications through its acquisition of
Time Warner Cable in May 2016 (which owns 27%) and
Comcast, through its
NBC Sports Group subsidiary (which owns 8%). The channel primarily broadcasts games and related programming involving the Mets, but also carries supplementary coverage of the Mets and the
New York Jets as well as college sports events.
SportsNet New York is available on
cable and
fiber optic television providers throughout the
New York metropolitan area and
New York state; it is also available nationwide on
satellite via
DirecTV.
The
New York metropolitan area is the largest
metropolitan area in the world by
urban landmass, at 4,495 sq mi (11,640 km2).
[16] The metropolitan area includes
New York City (the most populous
city in the
United States),
Long Island, and the Mid and Lower
Hudson Valley in the state of
New York; the five largest cities in
New Jersey:
Newark,
Jersey City,
Paterson,
Elizabeth, and
Edison, and their vicinities; six of the seven largest cities in
Connecticut:
Bridgeport,
New Haven,
Stamford,
Waterbury,
Norwalk, and
Danbury, and their vicinities.
The New York metropolitan area remains, by a significant margin, the most populous in the United States, as defined by both the
Metropolitan Statistical Area(20.3 million residents in 2017)
[13] and the
Combined Statistical Area (23.7 million residents in 2016).
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In August 2010, the
University of Connecticut announced a multi-year deal with SportsNet New York to become "the official television home" of
UConn Huskies football and men's basketball. SNY will feature 300 hours of Huskies-related programming annually, including 120 hours of game coverage.
[10] In May 2012, SNY signed a four-year agreement with the university to become the exclusive broadcaster of the Huskies women's basketball team (assuming the regional rights from
Connecticut Public Television), agreeing to air a minimum of 17 games per year.
Availability[edit]
At its launch, it was originally expected that SNY would experience issues with trying to gain carriage on Cablevision, as the Mets moved their game telecasts from that company's two regional sports networks, MSG Network and FSN New York (now MSG Plus). The situation was similar to that experienced by the YES Network, the Yankees ended its broadcasting agreement with Cablevision. Cablevision filed a lawsuit against Sterling Entertainment Enterprises on the grounds that the franchise might have violated their contract, which theoretically had one year left to run, as well as the
right of last refusal. However, a judge ruled in favor of Sterling Entertainment, essentially stating that the Mets had voided their deal with Cablevision entirely by paying a specified buyout fee, believed to have exceeded $50 million.
Comcast began carrying the network on its
Hartford area systems on March 31, 2008. Then in July 2008, just days after the University of Connecticut signed its broadcast deal with SNY,
Cox Communications began carrying SportsNet New York on channel 62 throughout its Connecticut service area. On August 29, 2011, the network launched a secondary feed for Connecticut, SNY-CT.
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SNY is also available on Comcast systems in
Palm Beach County, Florida and nationally on
Verizon FiOS. However, due to broadcasting rules imposed by
Major League Baseball that restrict local telecasts to within their designated broadcast territory, Mets games televised by the network are
blacked out, although
pre-game and post-game shows and other non-event programming is cleared for broadcast in Palm Beach County.
Beginning in 2017, SNY made Mets games available for live Internet streaming to subscribers via its website and the
NBC Sportsapp.
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