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| Type | Regional sports network |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Broadcast area | New York Connecticut (except northeastern areas) North andCentral Jersey Northeastern Pennsylvania Nationwide (via satellite) |
| Headquarters | 4 World Trade Center,Lower Manhattan,New York City |
| Programming | |
| Language | English |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Sterling Entertainment Enterprises |
| Parent | |
| Sister channels | Spectrum Sports NBC Sports Regional Networks |
| History | |
| Launched | March 16, 2006; 19 years ago (2006-03-16) |
| Founder | Fred Wilpon |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Availability | |
| Streaming media | |
| The MLB App | sny (U.S. cable internet subscribers only; requires login from participating providers to stream content; some events may not be available due to league rights restrictions; not supported by Xfinity) |
| DirecTV Stream | Internet Protocol television |
| Hulu | Internet Protocol television |
SportsNet New York (SNY) is an Americanregional sports network owned by Sterling Entertainment Enterprises, LLC, itself ajoint venture betweenFred Wilpon'sSterling Equities (which owns a controlling 65% interest),Charter Communications through its acquisition ofTime Warner Cable in May 2016 (which owns 27%) andComcast, through itsNBC Sports Group subsidiary (which owns 8%). The channel primarily broadcasts games and related programming involving theNew York Mets, but also carries supplementary coverage of the Mets and theNew York Jets as well as college sports events.
SNY maintains business operations and studio facilities at4 World Trade Center. SportsNet New York is available oncable andfiber optic television providers throughout theNew York metropolitan area and the state ofNew York; it is also available nationwide onsatellite viaDirecTV.
SportsNet New York was created in order for the New York Mets to better leverage the team's television broadcasting rights, which were previously held byCablevision.
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 throughFSN New York andMSG Network. The company used those rights for various business practices (some controversial among viewers and local media analysts) such as moving certain games to itsMSG Metro Channels, 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 theNew York Yankees andNew Jersey Nets – ended the monopoly by launching theYES Network to serve as the local cable broadcaster of their games. The Mets continued in the Cablevision fold until that team's contract with the company (the dominant cable provider outside of Manhattan and the adjacentboroughs) expired in 2005.
On March 16, 2006, theNew York Mets launched SportsNet New York in partnership with cable television providersComcast andTime Warner Cable.
By 2011, through its majority ownership, the Mets received $68 million in revenue from SportsNet New York for the broadcast rights to its games.[2] In 2013,Bloomberg estimated that $1.2 billion of the Mets' $2.1 billion value came from SNY.[3]
From the network's founding until 2017, its headquarters was located in theTime-Life Building atRockefeller Center, on the corner ofAvenue of the Americas and West 51st Street inManhattan (in the former home of the now-defunctCNN news programAmerican Morning). In March 2017, the network relocated to4 World Trade Center. From 2018 to 2024,NFL Network's morning showGood Morning Football was produced from SNY's studios.[4][5]
In 2025, SNY announced an agreement withMajor League Baseball to launch adirect-to-consumer streaming service for SNY throughMLB.com and theMLB app. The agreement includes a tie-in with MLB.tv which will allow users to subscribe to a bundle including both services. Cable subscribers will be able to useTV Everywhere to stream SNY through MLB.com.[6]
SNY serves as the primary local broadcaster of theNew York Mets. It carries at least 120 games involving the team each season not televised on a national network (Fox,TBS orESPN) or streamed exclusively through a streaming service (Apple TV+ orRoku Channel). SNY also produces a smaller broadcast schedule of games for local broadcast onNexstar'sCW affiliateWPIX (channel 11), which distributes those games to other broadcast stations in the Mets' broadcast territory. Gregg Picker serves as producer for the games. Mets game telecasts andpost-game shows on SNY delay other programming, such as the 11:00 p.m. edition ofSportsNite, 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, theNew York Jets signed a broadcasting agreement with SportsNet New York to carry programs relating to theNFL 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 forNew York Yankees broadcasts belong exclusively toYES Network, SNY operates a Twitter account dedicated to Yankees highlights.[7] Game highlights on 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.[8]
On October 1, 2014, SNY signed an agreement with theFall Experimental Football League to carry some of the league's inaugural regular season games in October and November of that year.[9]
On December 20, 2018, SNY andRugby United New York ofMajor League Rugby announced a partnership where SNY would televise nine of the team's inaugural season games.[10]
In June 2021, SNY announced an agreement with theNew York Racing Association to air 15 weekends ofhorse racing fromBelmont Park andSaratoga Race Course.[11]
In 2024, SNY announced a broadcast agreement with theBinghamton Rumble Ponies, the Mets Double-A affiliate.[12]
In 2025, SNY began broadcasting games featuringBrooklyn FC of theUSL Super League.[13]
Currently SNY airs women'scollege basketball from theUniversity of Connecticut, college basketball andfootball games fromFordham University,[14][15] college football and college basketball games fromColumbia University,[16] college football and college basketball games fromStony Brook University,[17] college basketball and football fromMonmouth University,[18][19]college hockey,college soccer, college football and college basketball fromLong Island University,[20] and college hockey and college basketball games fromSacred Heart University[21] SNY also has a package of eight nationally televised college basketball games from theNortheast Conference[22] and annually airs theConnecticut Ice college hockey tournament.[23]
On July 23, 2008, SNY reached an agreement withRutgers 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 byABC or any of theESPN networks), weekly coaches shows (for both football and basketball, such asInside Rutgers Football) andpress conferences.[24]
Beginning in 2008, SNY carried football and basketball games involving theBig East Conference; the network lost the rights toFox Sports 1 (through an agreement withFox Sports) when that network launched in August 2013. The network also carried coaches shows focusing on theSeton Hall University andSt. John's University basketball teams, both members of the old Big East.[25][26] From its launch, SNY also carried football and basketball games from theBig Ten Conference that were not scheduled to be televised on a national network; the network lost these games to theBig Ten Network when it launched in 2007. SNY also televised college basketball games from theSun Belt Conference throughESPN Plus, later dropping these events in 2008, in order to focus its college sports coverage on the Big East Conference.
In August 2010, theUniversity of Connecticut announced a multi-year deal with SportsNet New York to become "the official television home" ofUConn Huskies football and men's basketball. SNY will feature 300 hours of Huskies-related programming annually, including 120 hours of game coverage.[27] 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 fromConnecticut Public Television), agreeing to air a minimum of 17 games per year.[28] 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 theAtlantic 10 Conference to televise the conference'scollege basketball games; under the initial deal, the network carried 43 Atlantic 10 basketball games during the 2013–14 season.[29]
Until 2023, SNY also broadcast college lacrosse, college football and college basketball fromHofstra University. Those games have since moved toMSG Network.[30]
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At its launch, it was originally expected that SNY would experience issues with trying to gain carriage onCablevision, as the Mets moved their game telecasts from that company's two regional sports networks,MSG Network and FSN New York (nowMSG Sportsnet or MSGSN). The situation was similar to that experienced by theYES 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 theright 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 itsHartford 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.[31]
SNY is also available on Comcast systems inPalm Beach County, Florida and nationally onVerizon Fios. However, due to broadcasting rules imposed byMajor League Baseball (MLB) that restrict local telecasts to within their designated broadcast territory, Mets games televised by the network areblacked out, althoughpre-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 liveInternet streaming to subscribers via its website and theNBC Sports app but has been yet to be made authorizable to Comcast Xfinity subscribers thoughComcast is the owner of the NBC Sports app and is part owner of SNY.[32] In 2022, SNY launched its own app, serving much the same purpose with much the same availability.[33]
On February 18, 2025, SNY announced that they have partnered with MLB, making streaming (such as Mets games or other media) now available on the MLB app.[34][35]
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