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| SportsNet New York | |
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| Launched | March 16, 2006 |
| Network | Comcast SportsNet |
| Owned by | Sterling Entertainment Enterprises (New York Mets 65%/ Charter Communications 27%/ NBC Sports Group 8%) |
| Picture format |
1080i (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
| Slogan | TV Home of All Things New York Sports |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area |
New York metropolitan area Nationwide (via satellite) |
| Headquarters | Time-Life Building, New York City |
| Sister channel(s) |
Cable/satellite: NY1 (through Spectrum) Broadcast: WNBC/New York City WNJU/Linden, New Jersey |
| Website | sny |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | 639 (HD/SD) |
| Cable | |
| Altice USA | 60 |
| Blue Ridge Digital Cable (PA) | 43 (SD) |
| Charter Communications (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island) | 26 (SD) |
| Comcast (New York metropolitan area) | 843 (HD) 73 (SD; most systems) |
| RCN (Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens) | 370 |
| Verizon FiOS (NY, NJ, CT) | 577 (HD) 77 (SD) |
| Verizon FiOS (all other areas) | 96 (SD) |
| IPTV | |
| Frontier U-verse | 1704 (HD) 704 (SD) |
SportsNet New York (SNY) is an American regional sports network that is owned by Sterling Entertainment Enterprises, LLC, itself a joint venture between the New York Mets (which owns a controlling 65% interest), Charter Communications through its acquisition of Time Warner Cable in May 2016 (which owns 27%) and Comcast, through its NBC Sports Group subsidiary (which owns 8%). The channel primarily broadcasts games and related programming involving the Mets, but also carries supplementary coverage of the Mets and the New York Jets as well as college sports events.
SNY maintains business operations and street-level studio facilities located in the Time-Life Building at Rockefeller Center, on the corner of Avenue of the Americas and West 51st Street in Manhattan (in the former home of the now-defunct CNN news program American Morning). SportsNet New York is available on cable and fiber optic television providers throughout the New York metropolitan area and New York state; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.
SportsNet New York was launched on March 16, 2006. The network was created in order for the New York Mets to better leverage the team's television broadcasting rights, which were previously held by Cablevision for its regional sports networks MSG and FSN New York. 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, which resulted in the company using 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 and New Jersey Nets – ended the monopoly by launching the YES Network to serve as the local cable broadcaster of their games, leaving the Mets in the Cablevision fold until that team's contract with the company (the dominant cable provider outside of Manhattan and the adjacent boroughs) expired in 2005.
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