Mets To Stay On WPIX-11, But Fewer Games

[Joseph_Gallant]

Broadcasting and Cable.com is reporting (registration may be required) that WPIX-11 will continue to be the broadcast-TV home of the New York Mets.

However, WPIX will only carry 25 regular-season games a year starting in 2006, half the number of regular-season games the station had previously broadcast. The new home of Mets' cable games, Sportsnet-New York, will carry aproximately 125 regular-season games (the remaining dozen or so games will either be Saturday-afternoon regional games on Fox, or Sunday-night games on ESPN).

If what happened between Cablevision and YES Network is any indication, the 25 games on WPIX (as well as the eight or nine games to be broadcast on Fox's WNYW-5 as part of that network's Saturday-afternoon baseball package and the two or three Sunday-night games on ESPN) will be the only Mets' games Cablevision subscribers will be able to watch on TV during the 2006 regular-season.

 

[toby]

That was in the Daily News on Tuesday.
http://www.nydailynews.com/11-22-2005/sports/story/368054p-313202c.html
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[KML0224]

Three things:

1- The guy writing about the Jets' misery couldn't even spell EMERIL Lagasse's name right (I have that last name so I've got no excuse!).

2- Is this gonna be another big mess of Cablevision not carrying a New York baseball network again?

3- How long of a deal do the Yankees have with WWOR-TV channel 9?

 

[njweatherman105]

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