The Mets’ and Yankees’ networks are in parallel battles with satellite operators.
SNY, which carries the Mets, was pulled off the Dish Network around midnight Thursday. And the YES Network is in danger of being removed from DirecTV early Saturday.
Dish is now without any of the local sports channels. It has never had a deal with YES and stopped showing the MSG Network in October. In a statement, SNY said: “Dish Network continues to abandon New York sports fans, now dropping SNY’s exclusive coverage of the Mets, Jets and Big East Conference.”
Unless they make other viewing arrangements, Mets fans who subscribe to Dish will not be able to watch the team’s first 14 games, which are on SNY, including Friday’s opener against the Marlins in Florida.
Dish is a small part of SNY’s distribution, with 342,981 customers in the New York market, according to the research firm SNL Kagan. Another 84,000 SNY subscribers are in Connecticut and Syracuse, strongholds for SNY’s Big East games.
In its statement, Dish said it was unable to reach “fair terms” on a renewal with SNY. It added: “Regional sports channels like SportsNet NY have become one of the pay-TV industry’s fastest-growing expenditures, making our negotiations with content providers increasingly difficult.”
DirecTV subscribers who want to watch the Yankees will be able to see Saturday’s game on Fox, but they will not be able to watch the six games from Sunday to Friday because they are on YES.
SNY, which carries the Mets, was pulled off the Dish Network around midnight Thursday. And the YES Network is in danger of being removed from DirecTV early Saturday.
Dish is now without any of the local sports channels. It has never had a deal with YES and stopped showing the MSG Network in October. In a statement, SNY said: “Dish Network continues to abandon New York sports fans, now dropping SNY’s exclusive coverage of the Mets, Jets and Big East Conference.”
Unless they make other viewing arrangements, Mets fans who subscribe to Dish will not be able to watch the team’s first 14 games, which are on SNY, including Friday’s opener against the Marlins in Florida.
Dish is a small part of SNY’s distribution, with 342,981 customers in the New York market, according to the research firm SNL Kagan. Another 84,000 SNY subscribers are in Connecticut and Syracuse, strongholds for SNY’s Big East games.
In its statement, Dish said it was unable to reach “fair terms” on a renewal with SNY. It added: “Regional sports channels like SportsNet NY have become one of the pay-TV industry’s fastest-growing expenditures, making our negotiations with content providers increasingly difficult.”
DirecTV subscribers who want to watch the Yankees will be able to see Saturday’s game on Fox, but they will not be able to watch the six games from Sunday to Friday because they are on YES.