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Yankees 2010 Yes Network Packages Games

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www.1800beisbol.com - Starting with Josh Beckett's expected first pitch to Derek Jeter on Sunday night in the big season opener at Fenway Park, more than six million eligible fans in the New York area will be able to watch a full season of live streaming Yankees games without blackout restriction.

Registration is under way for the 2010 Yankees on YES in-market online package, available to even more fans this year now that Time Warner has joined Cablevision and Verizon FiOS as cable participants within the Yankees' home broadcasting territory.

Customers can purchase a package of all of YES Network's 127 regular-season telecasts for $69.95, or $19.95 for any 30-day period. Beginning with that 8 p.m. ET Opening Day meeting in Boston to start the Major League Baseball regular season, all games in the package will be available in true HD -- the highest-quality live streaming as pioneered by Major League Baseball Advanced Media.

The YES Network and MLBAM reached a historic multiyear agreement last year, paving the way for YES to launch in-market streaming of its Yankees telecasts in partnership with YES affiliates -- making it the first professional sports team to have such availability. The addition of Time Warner's local footprint, which includes much of metropolitan New York, including Manhattan, makes it even more widespread. The season will begin in style, with the sport's biggest rivalry on stage, and making it even more unique will be the ability of so many fans of the defending World Series champs to see it live, locally, via broadband.

"I'm sure Yankees fans will appreciate it," Jeter said after the Yankees on YES package was launched last July. "You see how they've always come out and supported us before this, and everywhere we go, there are people wearing Yankees gear. Anything that gives fans more access, it's a positive. I think it's great. I'm pretty sure more teams will follow."

Eligible subscribers can review frequently asked questions about the package and begin the purchase process by logging on to YESNetwork.com and Yankees.com.

YES Network will allow eligible customers to purchase this package and use high-speed Internet access to watch YES' Yankees telecasts live on their computers throughout the entire home broadcasting territory. They also will be able to watch telecasts live on laptops or other portable computers via WiFi.

"I just want to point out how excited we are," Hal Steinbrenner, the Yankees' managing general partner, said of the in-market package. "It's always been important to us, and always will be, to keep up with the latest technology out there. The new stadium is the latest example of that. We want to take advantage of what's out there -- particularly when they benefit our fans, as clearly this deal does. ... This is going to give our fans a variety of ways to view their games. ... We're pretty sure our fans are going to be excited about these different options, and we're pretty sure a lot of fans are going to take advantage of it. I want to thank all the parties involved as well."

This package is separate from the regular MLB.TV or MLB.TV Premium subscription packages, which offer all live out-of-market games. Only one person will be able to use a Yankees on YES account at any given time, and standard MLBAM procedures require a subscriber to verify an account if it is detected that the account is frequently being accessed from different locations.

This is the latest example of the ever-expanding reach of live streaming MLB games. The 2010 season marks the first full year of being able to access an MLB.TV subscription via the MLB.com At Bat app over iPhone or iPod Touch devices, and Apple's forthcoming iPad device also will be a new platform for the live games this season.

Ahorre March 30, 2010 03:22 PM