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117-533: SNY maintains business operations and studio facilities at 4 World Trade Center . SportsNet New York is available on cable and fiber optic television providers throughout the New York metropolitan area and the state of New York ; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV . SportsNet New York was launched on March 16, 2006. The network was created in order for the New York Mets to better leverage

234-567: A duopoly owned by Fox Television Stations (whose sister company, the Fox network, owns broadcast rights to most games from the Giants home conference, the National Football Conference ). YankeeNets also maintained a similar relationship with English football club Manchester United . YES broadcast tape-delayed and classic United games produced by the team-owned Manchester United TV in

351-552: A slurry wall around the site. The PANYNJ was supposed to give the site to Silverstein Properties at the end of 2007; the contractors would have received a $ 10 million bonus if they had completed the work early. If Silverstein did not receive the site by January 1, 2008, the PANYNJ would pay Silverstein $ 300,000 per day until the site was transferred. The agency ultimately gave the site to Silverstein on February 17, 2008. The PANYNJ paid

468-512: A $ 14.4 million penalty for turning over the site 48 days after the deadline. The PANYNJ voted in early 2008 to extend the deadline for 4 WTC's completion to April 2012. Meanwhile, police officials expressed concern that the building's all-glass design posed a security risk. A study published in early 2009 predicted that 4 WTC, the first of Silverstein's three towers at the World Trade Center site, would not be fully leased until 2014 due to

585-517: A 49% stake in YES. As a consequence, each of the network's previous owners had their ownership stakes reduced. As a result of the sale to Fox, the Yankees agreed to keep their games on the network through 2041, which would be the network's 40th year of existence. News Corporation's interest in YES was transferred to 21st Century Fox (owned by Rupert Murdoch , who also remained the owner of News Corporation), when

702-507: A broadcasting agreement with SportsNet New York to carry programs relating to the NFL franchise for three years. SNY carries more than 250 hours of Jets-related content annually, including both regular season and off-season shows with access to players, coaches and management. Although the local rights for New York Yankees broadcasts belong exclusively to YES Network , SNY operates a Twitter account dedicated to Yankees highlights. Game highlights on

819-466: A fixed camera shot focused tightly on correspondent Kimberly Jones as she described the events surrounding her in general terms. Yankees players not only witnessed the ceremonies, but graciously applauded them from the top steps of their dugout. Perhaps due to this incident, YES broadcast the majority of the ceremonies honoring the Red Sox' celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Fenway Park in 2012. During

936-688: A group of locally based services that had limited distribution on most cable providers in the New York City metropolitan area. In 2002, YankeeNets – then the corporate entity which owned both the New York Yankees and New Jersey Nets – ended the monopoly by launching the YES Network to serve as the local cable broadcaster of their games, leaving the Mets in the Cablevision fold until that team's contract with

1053-484: A half-hour introductory show. The first game broadcast on YES was an exhibition game against in which the New York Yankees faced the Cincinnati Reds at 7 PM on the same day. 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 (see below). The first regular season game broadcast on YES

1170-469: A judge that a third party was willing to purchase their rights and launch a channel. Thus, new YankeeNets CEO Harvey Schiller hired IMG to provide a valuation for the prospective YankeeNets sport channel. IMG came back with an offer to partner on the channel with a guaranteed rights fees of $ 838 million. In 2000, YankeeNets and IMG proposed forming a sports channel valued as high as $ 2.4 billion. Cablevision sued considering its valuing as "outlandish" to block

1287-634: A merger of the business operations of the Yankees and the New Jersey Nets. One of the reasons behind the operational merger was to allow both teams to gain better leverage over their own broadcast rights; each party believed that it would obtain better individual deals, if they negotiated the rights collectively. Two years earlier in 1997, Cablevision – which at the time had owned the Nets' television broadcaster, SportsChannel New York (later known as Fox Sports Net New York, and now known as MSG Sportsnet ) – became

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1404-422: A mortgage loan for the tower's construction. Silverstein would be allowed to evict the city government if he could rent out the space at market rate . As part of the project, Cortlandt Street (which had been closed to make way for the original World Trade Center) was planned to be rebuilt between 3 and 4 WTC. The plans for Cortlandt Street affected the design of the lower stories of both 3 and 4 WTC, as one of

1521-559: A package of eight nationally televised college basketball games from the Northeast Conference and annually airs the Connecticut Ice college hockey tournament. On July 23, 2008, SNY reached an agreement with Rutgers University to become "the exclusive home" of the university's athletics program; the deal includes the rights to air encore presentations of the team's football telecasts (involving games televised by ABC or any of

1638-929: A partnership where SNY would televise nine of the team's inaugural season games. In June of 2021, SNY announced an agreement with the New York Racing Association to air 15 weekends of horse racing from Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course . Currently SNY airs women's college basketball from the University of Connecticut , college basketball and football games from Fordham University , college football and college basketball games from Columbia University , college football and college basketball games from Stony Brook University , college basketball and football from Monmouth University , college hockey, college soccer, college football and college basketball from Long Island University , and college hockey and college basketball games from Sacred Heart University SNY also has

1755-619: A result of RedBird Capital Partners along with Yankee Global Enterprises acquiring the club on August 30, 2022. In June 2024, Willow announced that it had sublicensed MI New York Major League Cricket matches to YES Network for the 2024 season. Since the network's launch in 2002, longtime Yankee Stadium public address announcer Bob Sheppard has served as a continuity announcer for YES' network identifications and programming schedules. Recordings of Sheppard are still used occasionally even though Sheppard died in 2010. Ian Eagle also sometimes provides continuity for on-air promotions during

1872-779: A single provider. Former YES minority owner Goldman Sachs also maintains an ownership stake in Dish Network parent Echostar . Time Warner Cable relocated YES from channel 30 to channel 53 on its New York City area systems in March 2008, soon after the New York City Council approved a measure to provide the Yankees public funding to build a new stadium. Simultaneously, Time Warner Cable moved business news channel Bloomberg Television to YES' former channel 30 slot, all while renegotiating its ten-year contract with Mayor Michael Bloomberg (owner of Bloomberg Television parent Bloomberg L.P. ) and

1989-517: A trapezoidal plan, changing to a parallelogram on the upper stories. The lowest stories of 4 World Trade Center and several neighboring buildings would be part of a rebuilt Westfield World Trade Center Mall . The same month, PANYNJ agreed to occupy 600,000 square feet (56,000 m ) within 4 WTC, paying $ 59 per square foot ($ 640/m ), a lower rental rate than what Silverstein had wanted. The city government offered to rent another 581,000 square feet (54,000 m ), thus allowing Silverstein to obtain

2106-535: Is a 1080i high definition simulcast feed of the network, which is carried on select cable providers (including Comcast , Altice USA , DirecTV , RCN , Charter Spectrum and Verizon FiOS ). As of 2019 , YES is currently owned by YES majority owner Yankee Global Enterprises and before the Disney acquisition (Fox's SportsTime Ohio and other networks; all of those were acquisitions rather than Fox-launched networks) that transmitted their HD simulcasts in 1080i, rather than

2223-469: Is available on cable and IPTV providers in New York, New Jersey , Connecticut and parts of Pennsylvania ; it is available nationally on some cable systems (as part of a designated sports tier), via satellite on DirecTV , and regionally on Frontier , AT&T U-verse , Verizon Fios , and Cox Communications . YES is the product of a holding company founded in 1999 called YankeeNets , created out of

2340-569: 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 Sports app but has been yet to be made authorizable to Comcast Xfinity subscribers though Comcast is the owner of the NBC Sports app and is part owner of SNY. In 2022, SNY launched its own app, serving much the same purpose with much

2457-550: Is leased to NFL Network for that network's morning show Good Morning Football . SNY serves as the primary local broadcaster of the New York Mets . It carries at least 120 games involving the team each season not televised on a national network ( Fox , TBS or ESPN ) or streamed exclusively through a streaming service ( Apple TV+ or Roku Channel ). SNY also produces a smaller broadcast schedule of games for local broadcast on Nexstar 's CW affiliate WPIX (channel 11), which distributes those games to other broadcast stations in

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2574-521: Is only available in areas where YES is also featured on local cable. The service costs $ 24.99 per month or $ 239.99 a year, but was initially offered for an introductory price of $ 19.99 a month or $ 199.99 a year. In January 2024, YES Network established a streaming joint venture with the rival MSG Network known as Gotham Advanced Media and Entertainment (GAME); in August 2024, GAME announced a new streaming platform known as The Gotham Sports App, which subsumes

2691-537: The New York Post reported that the Yankees had invoked the right of first refusal to acquire YES in the event that the sale of Fox Sports Networks to was successful, formally bidding 9 days later in a joint deal with Blackstone Group to get the 80% stake back. The Yankees also appointed the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan , RedBird Capital Partners , and Mubadala Investment Company to assist with their bid for

2808-515: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 . Silverstein also wanted to sell $ 1.36 billion worth of Liberty bonds to fund 4 WTC's completion. Silverstein decided in December 2010 to postpone the bond offering because of instability in the municipal bond market. Early the next year, he exercised his option to lease space to the New York City government. After the muni market stabilized,

2925-540: The Chicago Cubs on a new regional network ), Amazon.com , and The Blackstone Group holding minority shares. Mubadala Development Company , a United Arab Emirates’ sovereign wealth fund, and RedBird Capital Partners were reported as minority investors. The deal closed on August 29, 2019. In April 2020 during the early onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City , WCBS-TV briefly broadcast its local newscasts from

3042-812: The Columbus Clippers of the International League . Those games were produced locally in Columbus, Ohio . After the 2006 season, the Yankees ended their affiliation with the Clippers, and became affiliated with the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (formerly the Yankees and Red Barons). YES has only televised one RailRiders game, Masahiro Tanaka's minor league rehab start, the team also has local coverage within its Scranton / Wilkes-Barre market. Currently YES Network airs college athletic events from

3159-697: The Downtown Hudson Tubes . Many coins belonging to the Bank of Nova Scotia were purchased in 2002, repackaged by the Professional Coin Grading Service , and resold to collectors. Larry Silverstein had leased the original World Trade Center from the PANYNJ in July 2001. His company Silverstein Properties continued to pay rent on the site even after the September 11 attacks. In the months following

3276-527: The ESPN networks), weekly coaches shows (for both football and basketball, such as Inside Rutgers Football ) and press conferences . Beginning in 2008, SNY carried football and basketball games involving the Big East Conference ; the network lost the rights to Fox Sports 1 (through an agreement with Fox Sports ) when that network launched in August 2013. The network also carried coaches shows focusing on

3393-467: The Great Recession and disagreements with Silverstein. At the time, the PANYNJ had leased one-third of 4 WTC's office space, but no tenant had been signed for 2 WTC. Silverstein also held an option to lease space to the city government for $ 59 per square foot ($ 640/m ), but he was reluctant to exercise the option, since he believed that market-rate rents for the space would increase drastically when

3510-486: The Last Glacial Period . The current tower's foundation is surrounded by a slurry wall. The slurry wall is largely anchored to the bedrock, except at the southeast corner of the site, where the pothole made this impossible. DCM Erectors manufactured the steel for the building's superstructure . The superstructure consists of a steel frame weighing 25,000 short tons (22,000 long tons; 23,000 t). In addition,

3627-555: The Millennium Hilton New York Downtown hotel to the northeast; the American Stock Exchange Building to the south; One Liberty Plaza to the east; and Zuccotti Park to the southeast. The original 4 World Trade Center was a nine-story low-rise office building completed in 1975 that was 118 ft (36 m) tall, and located in the southeast corner of the World Trade Center site. The building

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3744-592: The Northeast Conference . In 2024, YES also acquired rights to St. Bonaventure University men's and women's basketball , airing nine games split between the two squads on YES during the 2024–25 season. Previously, the network has also broadcast various college sports events including football and basketball games from the Ivy League , basketball games from the Big 12 Conference (through ESPN Plus ) and rebroadcasts of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football games. It also carried

3861-506: The September 11 attacks , creating debris that destroyed or severely damaged nearby buildings, such as the original 4 World Trade Center. Much of the southern two-thirds of the building was destroyed, and the remaining north portion virtually destroyed, as a result of the collapse of the South Tower . The structure was subsequently demolished to make way for reconstruction. At the time of

3978-767: The Seton Hall University and St. John's University basketball teams, both members of the old Big East. From its launch, SNY also carried football and basketball games from the Big Ten Conference that were not scheduled to be televised on a national network; the network lost these games to the Big Ten Network when it launched in 2007. SNY also televised college basketball games from the Sun Belt Conference through ESPN Plus , later dropping these events in 2008, in order to focus its college sports coverage on

4095-559: The aspect ratio of its primary standard definition feed from full-screen to a letterboxed 4:3 format, which is a downconversion from the 16:9 high definition feed. The network's use of the AFD #10 broadcast flag to transmit its HD feed in this manner for broadcast in SD predates its use by other national cable networks such as Fox News Channel , ESPN and CNN . YES Network borrowed time on Cablevision's "iO TV 1300" service and on DirecTV to carry

4212-421: The financial crisis of 2007–2008 . 4 WTC's construction was temporarily halted that March after city officials found that workers were operating a construction crane without a permit. Disputes between the PANYNJ and Silverstein continued through late 2008, when Silverstein claimed that the agency owed him $ 300,000 per day for failing to demolish a barrier around the site, as the barrier prevented him from erecting

4329-791: The surrounding metropolitan area , it broadcasts a variety of sports events, as well as magazine, documentary and discussion programs; however, its main emphasis is focused on games and team-related programs involving the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (owned by minority partner Yankee Global), and the NBA 's Brooklyn Nets . YES Network's offices are based at the Metlife Building in Midtown Manhattan . YES programs, including Yankees and Nets pre- and post-game shows, are produced in studios that are located in Stamford, Connecticut . The channel

4446-449: The 1960s. The tower's foundation is composed of concrete footings that descend to the underlying bedrock . When the original World Trade Center was developed, the contractors found that there was a gap in the bedrock at the southeast corner of the site. Although the bedrock under most of the site is 70 feet (21 m) deep, the southeast corner contains a pothole , where the bedrock descends to 110 feet (34 m) because of erosion during

4563-452: The 2005 season, New York City area newspapers reported that the post-game questions asked to Yankees manager Joe Torre by Kimberly Jones were being sent to her by top-level team executives (quite possibly on directives from George Steinbrenner), and that Torre did not feel comfortable answering them. For the 2006 and 2007 seasons, Torre, who had been paid a fee by YES to give exclusive interviews after each Yankees game, ended his agreement with

4680-505: The 2012–13 Premier League season. Arsenal would get picked up by ONE World Sports while YES would gain partnership with Manchester City FC . In December 2014, YES announced it had acquired local broadcast rights to New York City FC of Major League Soccer , a subsidiary of Manchester City FC. Yankee Global Enterprises owns a 20% minority stake in the club, which is majority-owned by City Football Group . This continued until 2023, when all regional MLS broadcasts were abolished as part of

4797-461: The Big East Conference. 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. In May 2012, SNY signed a four-year agreement with the university to become

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4914-500: 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,

5031-582: The Mets' $ 2.1 billion value came from SNY. From the network's founding until 2017, its headquarters was located in the Time-Life Building at Rockefeller Center , on the corner of Avenue of the Americas and West 51st Street in Manhattan (in the former home of the now-defunct CNN news program American Morning ). In March 2017, the network relocated to 4 World Trade Center . Part of SNY's studio facility

5148-454: The Mets' broadcast territory. Gregg Picker serves as producer for the games. Mets game telecasts and post-game shows on SNY delay other programming, such as the 11:00 p.m. edition of SportsNite , and preempt all or portions of shows starting at midnight in the event a game with a 7:00 p.m. start time runs over its scheduled time period. In November 2005, the New York Jets signed

5265-470: The Nets season, beginning in 2019, he was joined by Joe Tolleson, who until 2022 provided network continuity during NYCFC's season. YES2 is a gametime-only overflow feed of YES Network, which broadcasts select Nets games on rare occasions when the Nets and Yankees are scheduled to play at the same time. The feed is carried in both standard and high definition on most cable providers in the New York metropolitan area and nationwide on DirecTV. YES Network HD

5382-418: The New York City studios for NFL Network , hosting their morning show Good Morning Football . Silver Art Projects, a nonprofit organization operated by Larry Silverstein's grandson Cory Silverstein, opened 28 art studios on the 28th floor in 2020. Twenty-five of the studios are reserved for the program's artists, who are selected through an annual application process and occupy each studio for free, while

5499-504: The PANYNJ and the city government. The New York City government leased 581,642 sq ft (54,036.3 m ) of space in the completed building. The PANYNJ leased approximately 600,766 sq ft (55,813.0 m ) for its headquarters, having relocated in 2015 from 225 Park Avenue South in Gramercy Park , Manhattan. When 4 WTC opened, there was relatively low demand for office space in lower Manhattan, in part because many of

5616-482: The PANYNJ planned to vote on the Liberty bond offering in early 2011. The vote was delayed after several institutional investors objected to the fact that the Liberty bonds would have greater seniority than a bond offering that had previously been placed on the building. If the Liberty bonds were not sold by the end of that year, Silverstein would not have enough money to complete the tower. Meanwhile, during early 2011,

5733-410: The September 11 attacks, the building's commodities exchanges had 30.2 million ounces (860,000,000 g) of silver coins and 379,036 ounces (10,745,500 g) of gold coins in the basement. The coins in the basement were worth an estimated $ 200 million. Much of the coins had been removed by November 2001; trucks transported the coins out of the basement through an intact but abandoned section of

5850-524: The YES Network studio set due to the unavailability of the CBS Broadcast Center . In addition to live coverage of Yankees and Nets games, their respective pre-game and post-game shows and (as circumstances warrant) live press conferences , YES has produced various original programs, some of which have won local New York Emmy Awards . Other original programming featured on YES includes: Since

5967-531: The Yankees and Nets games in 2006. In addition to game telecasts, the network now also broadcasts all of its studio shows in HD. All YES-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. In April 2007, YES converted

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6084-661: The account are typically clips from the YES broadcast, sourced from the official Yankees Twitter account. SNY uploads their own recordings of post-game interviews to the account. The Yankees are also frequently covered on the primary SNY Twitter account. On October 1, 2014, SNY signed an agreement with the Fall Experimental Football League to carry some of the league's inaugural regular season games in October and November of that year. On December 20, 2018, SNY and Rugby United New York of Major League Rugby announced

6201-399: The area's financial firms were downsizing their spaces. There was so little demand for office space in the new tower that Silverstein rented out the vacant space for events, charging $ 50,000 per day for each floor. According to The Wall Street Journal , these included a Super Bowl commercial, a film shoot for the 2014 movie Annie , and a wine-tasting event. By July 2015, the tower

6318-450: The attacks, architects and urban planning experts held meetings and forums to discuss ideas for rebuilding the site. The architect Daniel Libeskind won a competition to design the master plan for the new World Trade Center in February 2003. The master plan included five towers, a 9/11 memorial, and a transportation hub. By July 2004, two towers were planned on the southeast corner of

6435-611: The building opened. Silverstein expressed confidence that the building would attract financial tenants since it was close to Wall Street . Three PureCell fuel cells were delivered at the World Trade Center site in November 2010, providing about 30 percent of 4 WTC's power. By the end of that year, the building had reached the tenth story; the project to date had been funded entirely by insurance proceeds. A New York state board voted in November 2010 to allow Silverstein to finance 4 WTC and another tower with up to $ 200 million of bonds from

6552-418: The building uses 100,000 cubic yards (76,000 m ) of concrete and 17,000 short tons (15,000 long tons; 15,000 t) of rebar . The center of the tower contains a mechanical core made of reinforced concrete , which includes mechanical equipment, stairs, and elevators. Schindler manufactured the building's elevators, which operate at a speed of 1,800 feet per minute (550 m/min). The retail space on

6669-535: The building was being constructed, David W. Dunlap of The New York Times wrote that 4 WTC was "the biggest skyscraper New Yorkers have never heard of". The Wall Street Journal wrote that the lobby "offers a grand front to the World Trade Center Memorial" and that the effect of the lobby's design "is intriguingly calming for a building soon to rest at the heart of the Financial District." Upon

6786-410: The building was constructed at an average rate of one floor per week, and the building had reached the 23rd floor by May 2011. After five months of negotiations, the PANYNJ announced a revised financing plan for the tower in September 2011, in which the Liberty bonds were subordinate to the existing bond offering. The agency started selling Liberty bonds in November 2011. The building's steel frame

6903-430: The cable-exclusive MSG Metro Channels , which had very limited distribution as Cablevision, Comcast and Time Warner Cable routinely fought over carriage agreements. Cablevision attempted to buy the Yankees outright, but could not agree to acceptable terms with George Steinbrenner and his partners. To exit its MSG/Cablevision deal, the Yankees would have to give them the right to match any new right agreement and show

7020-406: The channel's launch), 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. In 2003, the two sides eventually signed a long-term contract to carry the network on Cablevision's New York area systems. This situation

7137-545: The channel. In April 2001, the suit was settled such that in June 2001, YankeeNets paid MSG to take the Yankees' TV rights in-house. IMG had been replaced by other investors, Goldman, Sachs & Company , the Quadrangle Group , Leo Hindery Jr. , chief executive of the network, and Amos Hostetter Jr., a billionaire cable veteran, who in total had a 40% share of the channel. The YES Network launched at noon on March 19, 2002, with

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7254-509: The city government were the building's only tenants. Though the two governmental tenants collectively occupied around 60 percent of the building, the Financial Times reported that some of the space could be subleased . Janno Lieber of Silverstein Properties expressed optimism that the building's design would attract tenants, saying: "We have a building that's going to feel like a tower on Park Avenue." The first tenants to move in were

7371-427: The city of New York. In 2016, Comcast (who are part owners of Sportsnet New York) dropped the YES Network. The blackout ended on March 31, 2017, just in time for the start of the 2017 New York Yankees season . In 2003, Don Zimmer (then employed with the Yankees as a bench coach ) expressed criticism of team owner George Steinbrenner in interviews with certain local media outlets. After this came to light, it

7488-632: The coaches' shows of Notre Dame and the Penn State Nittany Lions . In 2011, YES aired live broadcasts of college basketball games involving the Fordham University . YES also aired college football and basketball games from the ACC on Regional Sports Networks produced by Raycom Sports . In 2000, YankeeNets entered into a marketing agreement with the New York Giants ; this included awarding YES

7605-401: The company (the dominant cable provider outside of Manhattan and the adjacent boroughs ) expired in 2005. Its owners at the time is Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Wilpon, CBS Sports and Dish Network . By 2011, through its majority ownership, the Mets received $ 68 million in revenue from SportsNet New York for the broadcast rights to its games. In 2013, Bloomberg estimated that $ 1.2 billion of

7722-514: The company's ownership interest from 49% to 80%. In 2014, the YES Network announced an average 223,000 households in Yankees game broadcasts. On May 14, 2017, YES Network aired Derek Jeter 's number retirement ceremony. It got an average 724,000 viewers and a 5.79 rating in the New York City area, the highest non-game program for the network. On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company (which owned ABC owned-and operated station WABC-TV ) announced plans to acquire 21st Century Fox following

7839-463: The company's preferred 720p format. When it launched in mid-July 2004, YES HD initially only televised all Yankees home games, as well as away games involving the New York Mets and Boston Red Sox , in high definition. 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

7956-530: The divestiture of certain assets. While it originally included the Fox Sports Networks chain and YES Network, the Department of Justice ordered that they be sold on antitrust grounds due to Disney's ownership of ESPN . Bloomberg News reported that the sale of stakes in YES to Fox contained a clause giving the Yankees rights to buy them back in the event of a change in ownership. On November 11, 2018,

8073-525: The early 2000s, YES and NBA TV also both aired reruns of the basketball-centered drama series The White Shadow . The network also previously aired This Week in Baseball during the week throughout the Major League Baseball regular season, following each episode's original Saturday broadcast on Fox. The network had previously carried Major League Baseball: An Inside Look during the week throughout

8190-615: The east, and Liberty Street to the south. Within the World Trade Center complex, nearby structures include St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and Liberty Park to the southwest; the National September 11 Memorial & Museum to the west; One World Trade Center to the northwest; and the World Trade Center Transportation Hub . 2 World Trade Center , and 3 World Trade Center to the north. Outside World Trade Center, nearby buildings include 195 Broadway and

8307-405: The entrance to The Mall at the World Trade Center on the basement concourse level of the WTC. 4 World Trade Center was home to commodities exchanges on what was at the time one of the world's largest trading floors (featured in the Eddie Murphy movie Trading Places ). These commodities exchanges collectively had 12 trading pits. The World Trade Center's Twin Towers were destroyed during

8424-523: 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. However, as of 2020 only women's basketball still airs on the network. On October 31, 2013, SportsNet New York signed a broadcasting agreement with the Atlantic 10 Conference to televise the conference's college basketball games; under

8541-465: The exclusive rights to the NFL franchise's magazine programs (including Giants Online and Giants on Deck , which continued to air on the network after the YankeeNets breakup). The Giants' relationship with YES Network ended in 2007, at which time its team-related programming moved to Fox owned-and-operated station WNYW (channel 5) and MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station WWOR-TV (channel 9),

8658-449: The existing streaming platforms of both MSG and YES. Both the YES DTC service and MSG Network's MSG+ are carried via the platform as individual subscriptions, with bundle offers for both to also be available. At its launch, YES became embroiled in a carriage dispute with Cablevision (which attempted to purchase the Yankees in 1998 and carried the team's games on MSG Network at the time of

8775-463: The facade is made of reflective glass, except at the lobby, where the facade is made of clear glass. Five of the lowest stories are mechanical floors and contain narrow vertical louvers. The western facade of the tower, which faces the National September 11 Memorial, does not have louvers. The New York Daily News wrote that Maki and Associates wanted the building's design to "pay deference to

8892-399: The final steel beam on the 72nd floor. In the two days after the tower's topping-out, there were two construction accidents, neither of which resulted in serious injuries. The building's basements were flooded in late 2012 during Hurricane Sandy , although the tower was still expected to be completed the following year. Structural steel and concrete completed by June 1, 2013, followed by

9009-598: The first baseball game ever transmitted in 3D on July 10 and 11, 2010, when the Yankees faced the Seattle Mariners ; the 3D telecast of the game was also distributed to other cable providers. YES Network maintains a national feed available to select cable providers outside of the New York City market – including Spectrum (as well as areas once served by Bright House Networks (on its systems in Tampa and Orlando ), Verizon FiOS (in certain markets). The feed does not include

9126-432: The floor. The lobby also contains Vandal Gummy , a 7-foot-tall (2.1 m) sculpture of a bear by street artist WhIsBe . The artist Ivan Navarro designed an LED sculpture near the bottom of the lobby's escalators. Leading from the lobby are three hallways, where video art is displayed on wood-paneled walls. The Wall Street Journal wrote that 4 WTC's lobby "will be the largest lobby by volume in New York". When

9243-430: The former company spun off its U.S. entertainment holdings into a separate company in July 2013. In September 2013, rights to Fox Sports Networks ' national programming (previously held by MSG Plus , which had previously operated as FSN New York) were transferred to YES. On January 25, 2014, 21st Century Fox became the network's majority owner by purchasing an additional 31% share of YES Network from someone, increasing

9360-430: The ground floor, facing the National September 11 Memorial. The space contains wood-beamed ceilings, white-granite floors, and Swedish black granite walls. Suspended from the lobby's ceiling is Kozo Nishino 's sculpture Sky Memory , which consists of seven pieces of titanium trusses collectively weighing 474 pounds (215 kg). Sky Memory measures 98 feet (30 m) across and hangs 22 feet (6.7 m) above

9477-521: The ground floor. The lower levels of the building are used by retail businesses, including Eataly . These are connected via an underground shopping mall and concourse, connecting to the PATH and the New York City Subway via the World Trade Center Transportation Hub . The building's ground-floor lobby is two stories high, with a 46-foot (14 m) ceiling. The lobby occupies the western part of

9594-648: The headquarters of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ). The current 4 World Trade Center is the second building at the site to bear this address. The original building was a nine-story structure at the southeast corner of the World Trade Center complex. It was destroyed during the September 11 attacks in 2001, along with the rest of the World Trade Center. The current building's groundbreaking took place in January 2008, and it opened to tenants and

9711-531: The initial deal, the network carried 43 Atlantic 10 basketball games during the 2013–14 season. Until 2023, SNY also broadcast college lacrosse, college football and college basketball from Hofstra University . Those games have since moved to MSG Network . 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

9828-571: The league's agreement with Apple Inc. YES also 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 . In August 2022, it was announced that the YES Network would start airing AC Milan soccer matches in Serie A , Coppa Italia and The UEFA Champions League as

9945-410: The league's regular season. As part of a multi-year agreement with MP & Silva, YES aired tape delayed broadcasts of Premier League , FA Cup and UEFA Champions League matches involving Arsenal F.C. In addition to airing Arsenal matches, the network aired select archived match telecasts, as well as the team's magazine shows, Arsenal World and Arsenal 360 . This agreement ended at the start of

10062-417: The lower stories contains six escalators, two passenger elevators, and two freight elevators. The upper stories are served by 37 elevators, which consist of 34 passenger elevators and three service elevators. Six floors are used for retail. They consist of the ground floor, the three floors immediately above the ground floor as well as the two floors below ground. The retail space occupies the eastern part of

10179-471: The memorial". Jaros, Baum & Bolles was the MEP engineer. According to Engineering News-Record , Maki and Associates had designed 4 WTC as a "minimalist tower with an abstract sculptural presence". The upper floors accommodate offices using two distinct floor shapes. Floors 7 to 46 each span 44,000 square feet (4,100 m ) and are parallelogram in plan, reflecting the shape of the World Trade Center site.

10296-505: The network launched a secondary feed for Connecticut, SNY-CT. 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

10413-403: The network unless it negotiates a lower per-channel subscriber fee due to concerns that the rates the network offered could force the provider to increase the pricing of its programming packages. YES, however, has a most favored nation clause with all of its cable and satellite providers, in which all of the network's other carriage agreements would be voided if it lowered its subscriber rate for

10530-520: The network's debut, YES has aired select telecasts of the Yankees' minor league farm teams, primarily the Class-A (short season) Staten Island Yankees of the New York–Penn League . Those games are produced by YES, utilizing the same graphics and announcers as seen during game telecasts of the major league Yankees. From 2002 to 2006, YES also broadcast games from the Yankees' former Class-AAA team,

10647-430: The network's earlier days. The YES Network also produces Yankees game broadcasts shown on Amazon Prime Video using the same on-air talent seen on the cable network. From 2002 to 2004, WCBS-TV carried the Yankees broadcasts, with WWOR taking over those rights later. WLNY-TV held the local broadcast television rights to the Nets but no longer does. The Yankees package was also simulcast on other television stations in

10764-443: The network's live game telecasts (with alternate programming airing in their place), however it does carry the pre-game and post-game shows that bookend Yankees and Nets games aired by YES within the market. This feed differs from the satellite feed of the network available on DirecTV , in which Yankees and/or Nets games can be viewed outside of the teams' markets through a subscription to MLB Extra Innings and/or NBA League Pass and

10881-424: The network. Amazon , who was expected to bid for other FSN networks, instead bid for the 80% stake that Yankees want back, desiring to provide streaming services for the network. On March 8, 2019, Fox News reported that the Yankees had reached a deal to re-purchase Fox's share in the network for $ 3.5 billion, with Sinclair (who ended up being the final suitor for Fox Sports Networks, and is also collaborating with

10998-409: The proposals called for an enclosed shopping atrium along the path of Cortlandt Street, connecting the two buildings. The street was eventually rebuilt as an outdoor path. Final designs for 2, 3, and 4 WTC were announced in September 2007. The three buildings would comprise the commercial eastern portion of the new World Trade Center, contrasting with the memorial in the complex's western section. At

11115-516: The public on November 13, 2013. The building has 2.3 million square feet (210,000 m ) of space. 4 World Trade Center is at 150 Greenwich Street , within the new World Trade Center (WTC) complex, in the Financial District neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City . The land lot is bounded by Greenwich Street to the west, Cortlandt Way to the north, Church Street to

11232-438: The remaining three studios are for the program's mentors. 4 WTC is described as being either 977 feet (298 m) or 978 feet (298 m) tall, with 2.3 million square feet (210,000 m ) of office space. The facade is a curtain wall with glass panes that span the full height of each story. The facade consists of glass panes measuring 5 feet (1.5 m) wide and 13 or 14 feet (4.0 or 4.3 m) tall. Most of

11349-401: The removal of construction fencing in September 2013. The building opened on November 13, 2013, along with the neighboring section of Greenwich Street. It was the second tower to open as part of the new World Trade Center, after 7 World Trade Center . 4 World Trade Center had cost US$ 1.67 billion to build, having been funded by insurance payouts and Liberty bonds. At the time, the PANYNJ and

11466-615: The rest of the YES schedule can be viewed through a subscription to the DirecTV Sports Pack. The YES national feed was launched on July 31, 2003, on cable systems in Miami , Dallas–Fort Worth , Chicago and Los Angeles . In 2009, the network launched a feed for Connecticut: YES-CT. In March 2023, YES launched a direct-to-consumer streaming service that included access to a 24/7 feed of YES Network and all New York Yankees, Brooklyn Nets and New York Liberty games appearing on YES. The service

11583-479: The same availability. 4 World Trade Center 4 World Trade Center ( 4 WTC ; also known as 150 Greenwich Street ) is a skyscraper constructed as part of the new World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan , New York City . The tower is located on Greenwich Street at the southeastern corner of the World Trade Center site . Fumihiko Maki designed the 978 ft-tall (298 m) building. It houses

11700-460: The shape of a parallelogram . Floors 48 to 63 each cover 36,000 square feet (3,300 m ) and are trapezoidal in plan. At the two obtuse angles of the parallelogram, there are deep grooves along the facade. The top story contains a penthouse office. The structural engineer for the building is Leslie E. Robertson Associates, founded by Robertson, the chief engineer for the original Twin Towers in

11817-418: The site: the 62-story 3 World Trade Center and the 58-story 4 World Trade Center. The plans were delayed due to disputes over who would redevelop the five towers. The PANYNJ and Silverstein ultimately reached an agreement in 2006. Silverstein Properties ceded the rights to develop 1 and 5 WTC in exchange for financing with Liberty bonds for 2 , 3 , and 4 WTC. Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki

11934-423: 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 Network (previously owned by Viacom through its 1994 purchase of the network's former parent Paramount Communications ), which had held the broadcast rights to the Yankees since 1989. This led to monopoly -like tactics, including the shift of some games to

12051-455: The team was sold to a different ownership group, the Devils opted to renew their contract with MSG Network and FSN New York in 2005, under a long-term agreement. YES broadcasts NBA TV 's daily news and fantasy basketball shows (usually in the form of rebroadcasts, but occasionally showing live telecasts in the early morning drive time hours) and The Marv Albert Show . For a couple of years during

12168-493: The team's designated market region. YES also offers a Spanish-language feed of all of its Yankees game telecasts through the second audio program ; this feed can also be heard on New York radio station WADO (AM), which current holds the contract to carry the Yankees' Spanish-language broadcasts. The network attempted to secure television rights to the New Jersey Devils , formerly owned by an affiliate of YankeeNets; after

12285-493: The team's television broadcasting rights, which were previously held by Cablevision for its regional sports networks MSG and FSN New York . From 1998 to 2002, Cablevision had a monopoly on the cable television rights to all local professional sports franchises in the New York City market, which resulted in the company using those rights for various business practices (some controversial among viewers and local media analysts) such as moving certain games to its MSG Metro Channels ,

12402-498: The time, construction of 4 WTC was planned to begin in January 2008. As part of its agreement with the PANYNJ, Silverstein Properties was obliged to complete 3 and 4 WTC by the end of 2011. In 2007, the PANYNJ started constructing the East Bathtub, a 6.7-acre (2.7 ha) site that was to form the foundations of 3 and 4 WTC. The process involved excavating a trench around the site to a depth of 70 feet (21 m), then constructing

12519-407: The tower's foundations. The PANYNJ claimed that the barrier was several feet outside the excavation site and that it did not owe Silverstein anything. That December, an arbitration panel ruled that the PANYNJ owed Silverstein an extra $ 20.1 million. By May 2009, Silverstein wanted the PANYNJ to fund the construction of 2 and 4 WTC, but the PANYNJ was only willing to provide funding for 4 WTC, citing

12636-678: The tower's opening, Daniel Libeskind wrote: "The WTC site has emerged from 12 years of contention and construction to become what we all hoped it would be: a place that will show the world everything that is great about cities, especially New York." YES Network The Yankee Entertainment and Sports Network ( YES ) is an American pay television regional sports network owned by Yankee Global Enterprises (the largest shareholder with 26%), Diamond Sports Group (which owns 20%), Amazon (which owns 15%), and The Blackstone Group , RedBird Capital and Mubadala Investment Company , which each own 13%. Primarily serving New York City , New York and

12753-489: Was 62 percent leased. A February 2017 announcement by Spotify that it would lease floors 62 through 72 for its United States headquarters, along with a subsequent expansion announcement that July, brought 4 World Trade Center to full occupancy. SportsNet New York , carrier of New York Mets broadcasts, moved its headquarters from 1271 Avenue of the Americas to an 83,000 sq ft (7,700 m ) facility in 4 WTC. The SportsNet New York studios in 4 WTC also double as

12870-419: Was built first, followed by the concrete core and the exterior curtain wall. The building had reached the 61st story by the beginning of 2012. A cable on one of the building's construction cranes snapped on February 16, 2012, dropping a steel beam 40 stories; no one was seriously injured, and work resumed shortly afterward. The building's superstructure was topped out on June 26, 2012, when workers installed

12987-590: Was designed by Minoru Yamasaki and Emery Roth & Sons . The first tenants, the Commodities Exchange Center , started to move into the building in January 1977. On July 1, 1977, the Mercantile Traders finalized the move. The building's major tenants were Deutsche Bank (Floor 4, 5, and 6) and the New York Board of Trade (Floors 7, 8, and 9). The building's side facing Liberty Street housed

13104-678: Was hired to design the new 4 World Trade Center, on the eastern part of the World Trade Center site at 150 Greenwich Street, in May 2006. Meanwhile, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers were selected as the architects for 2 and 3 World Trade Center, respectively. The plans for 2, 3, and 4 World Trade Center were announced in September 2006. 4 World Trade Center would be a 61-story, 947-foot-tall (289 m) building. The building would have contained 146,000 sq ft (13,600 m ) of retail space in its base and 1.8 × 10 ^  sq ft (170,000 m ) of offices. The lower stories would have had

13221-476: Was later rumored that, in response, Steinbrenner ordered YES not to show Zimmer on-camera during its Yankee telecasts. In April 2005, YES declined to broadcast pre-game Opening Day festivities celebrating the Boston Red Sox' 2004 World Series championship win prior to its telecast of a Red Sox home game against the Yankees at Fenway Park . YES was roundly criticized for this move, including its decision to use

13338-500: Was played on April 1 against the Baltimore Orioles . In late 2003, the Yankees and Nets decided to part ways, with the Nets being sold to a group led by real estate developer Bruce Ratner . The sale did not include the Nets' ownership stake in YES (NJ Holdings), which remained with the pre-merger owners of the team. As part of the sale, the Nets signed a long-term deal to keep the team's game telecasts on YES. In 2004, YankeeNets

13455-439: Was renamed Yankee Global Enterprises, which owns the Yankees and the minority share in YES as separate companies. Therefore, the Yankees technically do not own YES. The Yankees, however, receive a rights fee from YES that is somewhat higher than MSG previously paid. In 2007, Goldman Sachs' and former Nets owner Ray Chambers' share in the network was put up for sale. In November 2012, News Corporation agreed to terms on acquiring

13572-425: 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

13689-410: Was very similar to another lengthy dispute that Cablevision entered into with MSG Network, after that network assumed the regional cable television rights to the Yankees in 1989 from Cablevision-owned SportsChannel New York. Dish Network is the only pay television provider available in the New York City area that does not carry YES Network. The satellite provider has indicated that it would not offer

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