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SportsNet New York (SNY) is an American
regional sports network A regional sports network (RSN) in the United States and Canada is a television channel that presents sports programming to a local media market or geographical region. Such channels often focus on one or a few teams who currently play in Major L ...
owned by Sterling Entertainment Enterprises, LLC, itself a
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between
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's
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(which owns a controlling 65% interest),
Charter Communications Charter Communications, Inc., is an American telecommunications and mass media company with services branded as Spectrum. The company is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. With over 32 million customers in 41 states as of 2022, it is the ...
through its acquisition of
Time Warner Cable Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC was an American cable television company. Before it was acquired by Charter Communications on May 18, 2016, it was ranked the second largest cable company in the United States by revenue behind only Comcast, o ...
in May 2016 (which owns 27%) and
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, through its
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subsidiary (which owns 8%). The channel primarily broadcasts games and related programming involving the
New York Mets The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the Boroughs of New York City, New York City borough of Queens. The Mets compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National ...
, but also carries supplementary coverage of the Mets and the
New York Jets The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Jets compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) AFC East, East division. The team p ...
as well as college sports events. SNY maintains business operations and studio facilities at
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. SportsNet New York is available on
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and
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television providers throughout the
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and the state of
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; it is also available nationwide on
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via
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.


History

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 by
Cablevision Cablevision Systems Corporation was an American cable television company with systems serving areas surrounding New York City. It was the fifth-largest cable provider and ninth-largest television provider in the United States. Throughout its ex ...
. 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 through FSN New York and
MSG Network The MSG Network (MSG) is an American regional cable and satellite television network, and radio service owned by Sphere Entertainment -- a spin-off of the main Madison Square Garden Company operation (itself a spin-off of local cable provid ...
. The company used those rights for various business practices (some controversial among viewers and local media analysts) such as moving certain games to its MSG 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 the
New York Yankees The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the Boroughs of New York City, New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Am ...
and
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– ended the monopoly by launching the
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%), Main Street Sports Group (which owns 20%), Amazon (which owns 15% ...
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 adjacent
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) expired in 2005. On March 16, 2006, the
New York Mets The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the Boroughs of New York City, New York City borough of Queens. The Mets compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National ...
launched SportsNet New York in partnership with cable television providers
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and
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. 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,
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estimated that $1.2 billion of the Mets' $2.1 billion value came from SNY. From the network's founding until 2017, its headquarters was located in the
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, on the corner of
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and West 51st Street in
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(in the former home of the now-defunct
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news program ''
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''). In March 2017, the network relocated to
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. From 2018 to 2024,
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's morning show ''
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'' was produced from SNY's studios. In 2025, SNY announced an agreement with
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to launch a
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streaming service for SNY through
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and the MLB 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 use
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to stream SNY through MLB.com.


Sports coverage


New York Mets

SNY serves as the primary local broadcaster of the
New York Mets The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the Boroughs of New York City, New York City borough of Queens. The Mets compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National ...
. It carries at least 120 games involving the team each season not televised on a national network (
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, TBS or
ESPN ESPN (an initialism of their original name, which was the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by the Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Commu ...
) or streamed exclusively through a streaming service (
Apple TV+ Apple TV+ is an American subscription over-the-top streaming service owned by Apple. The service launched on November 1, 2019, and it offers a selection of original production film and television series called Apple Originals. The service w ...
or
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). SNY also produces a smaller broadcast schedule of games for local broadcast on
Nexstar Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is an American publicly traded media company with headquarters in Irving, Texas, Midtown Manhattan, and Chicago. The company is the largest television station owner in the United States, owning 197 television stations ...
's CW affiliate
WPIX WPIX (channel 11) is a television station in New York City, serving as the ''de facto'' flagship of The CW Television Network. Owned by Mission Broadcasting, the station is operated by CW majority owner Nexstar Media Group under a local market ...
(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 and
post-game show A post-game, postgame, or post-match show is a TV or radio presentation that occurs immediately after the live broadcast of a major sporting event. Contents may include: * replays of key moments in the game. * interviews with players, coaches an ...
s 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.


New York Jets

In November 2005, the
New York Jets The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Jets compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) AFC East, East division. The team p ...
signed a broadcasting agreement with SportsNet New York to carry programs relating to the
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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.


New York Yankees

Although the local rights for
New York Yankees The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the Boroughs of New York City, New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Am ...
broadcasts belong exclusively to
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%), Main Street Sports Group (which owns 20%), Amazon (which owns 15% ...
, SNY operates a Twitter account dedicated to Yankees highlights. 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.


Other professional sports

On October 1, 2014, SNY signed an agreement with the
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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 Rugby New York, originally known as Rugby United New York and officially nicknamed the Ironworkers, was a professional rugby union team based in New York City that was a member of Major League Rugby (MLR). The team played an exhibition season in s ...
of
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announced a partnership where SNY would televise nine of the team's inaugural season games. In June 2021, SNY announced an agreement with the
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to air 15 weekends of
horse racing Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports, as its bas ...
from
Belmont Park Belmont Park is a thoroughbred racing, thoroughbred horse racetrack in Elmont, New York, just east of New York City limits best known for hosting the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the American Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United Stat ...
and
Saratoga Race Course Saratoga Race Course is a Thoroughbred horse racing track located on Union Avenue in Saratoga Springs, New York, Saratoga Springs, New York (state), New York, United States. Opened in 1863, it is often considered to be the oldest major sporting v ...
. In 2024, SNY announced a broadcast agreement with the
Binghamton Rumble Ponies The Binghamton Rumble Ponies are an American Minor League Baseball team based in Binghamton, New York. The team, which plays in the Eastern League, is the Double-A affiliate of the New York Mets major-league club. The Rumble Ponies play in Mi ...
, the Mets Double-A affiliate.


College sports

Currently SNY airs women's
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from the
University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two benefactors. In 1893, ...
, college basketball and
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games from
Fordham University Fordham University is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in New York City, United States. Established in 1841, it is named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx in which its origina ...
, college football and college basketball games from
Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...
, college football and college basketball games from
Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public university, public research university in Stony Brook, New York, United States, on Long Island. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is on ...
, college basketball and football from Monmouth University, College ice hockey, 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 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 American Broadcasting Company, ABC or any of the ESPN networks), weekly coaches shows (for both football and basketball, such as ''Rutgers Scarlet Knights football, Inside Rutgers Football'') and press conferences. Beginning in 2008, SNY carried football and basketball games involving the Big East Conference (1979–2013), Big East Conference; the network lost the rights to Fox Sports 1 (through an agreement with Fox Sports (United States), Fox Sports) when that network launched in August 2013. The network also carried coaches shows focusing on the Seton Hall University and St. John's University (New York City), 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 Events, ESPN Plus, later dropping these events in 2008, in order to focus its college sports coverage on the Big East Conference. In August 2010, the
University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two benefactors. In 1893, ...
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 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
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games; under 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 The MSG Network (MSG) is an American regional cable and satellite television network, and radio service owned by Sphere Entertainment -- a spin-off of the main Madison Square Garden Company operation (itself a spin-off of local cable provid ...
.


Original programming


News and debate programs

* ''The Thread'' – A show introduced in March 2019, showing a social media lens on New York Sports at 5 p.m. The program features contributors from entertainment fields and popular New York radio show commentators. It is hosted by Justine Ward, with various SNY contributors. * ''Honda SportsNite'' – A daily half-hour sports highlights show airing at 11:00 p.m. and throughout the night (with a rebroadcast from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., the latter not airing on weekends or on days when a Mets game is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. or earlier start). The 11:00 edition is pre-empted on nights when a Mets telecast starts at or after 8:00 p.m. * ''Loudmouths'' – A half-hour sports talk show (airing weeknights at 5:30 p.m.), in which host Jon Hein and various SNY panelists debate the top sports topics of the day. Occasionally, the hosts have themed broadcasts and predict the winners for future NFL games for the coming week. * ''Baseball Night New York'' - a primetime baseball-related program that airs on 6:00 pm weekdays hosted by Sal Licata, focused on news and insights of New York City's two baseball teams. * ''Carton and Roberts'' - SNY simulcast of WFAN (AM), WFAN-AM and WFAN-FM afternoon drive radio program hosted by Craig Carton and Evan Roberts (sportscaster), Evan Roberts (airing weekday afternoons from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm beginning in May 2021, head to head with
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%), Main Street Sports Group (which owns 20%), Amazon (which owns 15% ...
's simulcast of ''The Michael Kay Show'').


Entertainment programs

* ''Beer Money!'' – A half-hour game show (airing Sundays at 7:00 p.m.), in which hosts Amber Wilson and Dan Schachner visit bars throughout New York and New Jersey asking contestants questions pertaining to New York sports, in three rounds (with prize amounts of $10, $20, and $100); contestants choose to leave the game with their existing prize total at any time, or continue on, risking losing the money if they give a wrong answer. The program also features a two-contestant shootout round for a $50 prize, in which the first contestant to answer a question wrong loses. A similar program with the same title airs on SportsTime Ohio, while NESN, New England Sports Network (NESN) carried a similarly formatted program, ''Pocket Money''.


Mets-related programs

* ''Mets Classics'' – Broadcasts of archived Mets games from past seasons and the current season (''UltiMet Classics''). * ''Mets Fast Forward'' – A condensed one-hour replay of the previous day's Mets game telecast on SNY or
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(airing at 6:00 and 9:00 a.m. following a Mets game). * ''Mets Insider'' – A bi-weekly, half-hour magazine-style program geared towards a diverse range of Mets topics. * ''Mets Kids Clubhouse'' – A weekly half-hour baseball edutainment program for children, hosted by Neha Joy (airing Saturdays at 12:00 p.m.). * ''Mets Hot Stove'' – An offseason "hot stove" discussion about the Mets, hosted by Gary Apple with various local writers. * ''Mets Pre-Game Live'' – A half-hour program previewing the upcoming Mets game/series. * ''Mets Post-Game Live'' – A half-hour program providing recaps and analysis of the day's Mets game and previews of upcoming matchups. * ''Mets Weekly'' – A weekly half-hour magazine program featuring team coverage, interviews, and stories on the Mets (airing Sundays at 6:00 p.m.). * ''Mets Yearbook'' – A half-hour program of past Mets year in reviews from 1962 to 1988. * ''Mets Year in Review'' – A program recapping the Mets season since 2009. * ''Mets Amazin' Finishes'' - A program recapping the best games in various seasons in a countdown list. Frequently played during rain delays.


On-air staff


Current on-air staff


Hosts and analysts

* Joe Benigno – ''Daily News Live'' panelist * Ray Lucas – Jets post-game studio analyst; ''Jets Nation'' and NFL analyst * Willie Colon (American football), Willie Colon – Jets post-game studio analyst; ''Jets Nation'' and NFL analyst * Bart Scott – Jets post-game studio analyst; ''Jets Nation'' and NFL analyst * Eamon McAnaney – ''Honda SportsNite'' anchor and reporter; ''Loudmouths'' and ''Daily News Live'' co-host; fill-in Mets pre-game and post-game studio analyst * Sweeny Murti – Yankees beat reporter * Jon Hein – ''Loudmouths'' co-host * Jonas Schwartz – ''Daily News Live'' host and studio host * Michelle Yu – ''Honda SportsNite'' anchor and reporter; ''Daily News Live'' co-host.


New York Mets telecasts

* Gary Apple – Mets pre-game and post-game studio host, host of ''Mets Hot Stove,'' fill-in play-by-play announcer * Gary Cohen – Mets play-by-play announcer * Ron Darling – Mets color commentator/game analyst * Jim Duquette – fill-in Mets pre-game and post-game studio analyst * Jerry Blevins – fill-in Mets pre-game and post-game studio analyst * Terry Collins – fill-in Mets pre-game and post-game studio analyst * Steve Gelbs – Mets field reporter and fill-in play-by-play announcer, host of ''Mets Amazin' Finishes'' * Keith Hernandez – Mets color commentator/game analyst * Todd Zeile – Mets pre-game/post-game studio analyst and fill-in Mets color commentator * Michelle Margaux – Mets fill-in field reporter


Notable former on-air staff

* Steve Berthiaume – ''SportsNite'' anchor (2006–2007; left network in January 2007 and rejoined ESPN, now the lead broadcaster for the Arizona Diamondbacks) * Kevin Burkhardt – Mets field reporter and alternate play-by-play announcer; host of ''Mets Hot Stove'' (2007–2014; now play-by-play broadcaster and studio host for Fox Sports) * Chris Carlin – ''GEICO SportsNite'' anchor; ''Loudmouths'' co-host; and ''Mets Pre Game'' and ''Post Game Live'' host and Rutgers football and basketball analyst * Julie Donaldson – host of ''Mets Weekly'' (2006–2007; now anchor/reporter at Monumental Sports Network, NBC Sports Washington) * Scott Ferrall – ''Daily News Live'' and ''Wheelhouse'' personality (2007–2009; now host of nationally syndicated radio show for Infinity Sports Network, CBS Sports Radio) * Nelson Figueroa - Mets pre and post-game analyst (2015–2019) * Ralph Kiner – fill-in Mets color commentator/game analyst (2006–2013) (deceased) * Lee Mazzilli – studio analyst on Mets pre and post-game shows (2007–2008) * Bob Ojeda – Mets pre-game and post-game studio analyst (2009–2014) * Meredith Marakovits – ''GEICO SportsNite'' anchor and reporter; ''Daily News Live'' co-host (2009–2011; now at
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) * Kaitlin Monte – ''Mets Insider'' host (2013–2014; now at KRIV (TV), KRIV in Houston) * Harold Reynolds – studio analyst on Mets pre-game and post-game shows (2008; joined the MLB Network in 2009) * Wayne Randazzo - Mets alternate play-by-play announcer (now lead play-by-play broadcaster for the Los Angeles Angels and Friday Night Baseball, Apple TV+) * Gary Thorne - Mets alternate play-by-play announcer * Matt Yallof – host of Mets pre-game and post-game shows (2006–2008; joined MLB Network in 2009) * Bobby Valentine – fill-in Mets pre-game and post-game studio analyst


Availability

At its launch, it was originally expected that SNY would experience issues with trying to gain carriage on
Cablevision Cablevision Systems Corporation was an American cable television company with systems serving areas surrounding New York City. It was the fifth-largest cable provider and ninth-largest television provider in the United States. Throughout its ex ...
, as the Mets moved their game telecasts from that company's two regional sports networks,
MSG Network The MSG Network (MSG) is an American regional cable and satellite television network, and radio service owned by Sphere Entertainment -- a spin-off of the main Madison Square Garden Company operation (itself a spin-off of local cable provid ...
and FSN New York (now MSG Sportsnet, MSG Plus). The situation was similar to that experienced by the
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%), Main Street Sports Group (which owns 20%), Amazon (which owns 15% ...
, 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 first refusal, 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, Connecticut, 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. SNY is also available on Comcast systems in Palm Beach County, Florida and nationally on Verizon FiOS, Verizon Fios. However, due to broadcasting rules imposed by
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(MLB) that restrict local telecasts to within their designated broadcast territory, Mets games televised by the network are blackout (broadcasting), blacked out, although pre-game show, 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 Sports app but has been yet to be made authorizable to Comcast Xfinity subscribers though
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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 the same availability. 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.


See also

* Media of New York City * List of New York City sports teams


References


External links

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