YES Community launching streaming service to present non-cable viewers entry to Yankees video games

The YES Community is launching a direct-to-consumer streaming service, giving non-cable subscribers the flexibility to look at New York Yankees video games.

The YES Community will cost $24.99 per thirty days, or $239.99 yearly, in line with an announcement. Subscribers who purchase the service earlier than April 30 will probably be given a promotional provide of $19.99 per thirty days, or $199.99 yearly, which can expire on the finish of 2023. The service is accessible instantly. Main League Baseball’s opening day is Thursday.

The YES Community broadcasts video games for the Yankees, the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets and the WNBA’s New York Liberty to followers that stay within the higher New York space.

Regional sports activities networks are more and more providing streaming providers outdoors of the cable bundle to succeed in customers who do not subscribe to conventional pay-TV. RSNs try to arrange a brand new streaming income stream as hundreds of thousands of People cancel their cable service every year.

Diamond Sports activities Group, which which operates 21 Bally Sports activities regional sports activities networks and filed for chapter this month, prices $19.99 per thirty days. MSG Networks final month introduced its streaming service will launch this summer time for the NBA’s New York Knicks and the NHL’s New York Rangers, Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils. It can price $29.99 a month, or $309.99 yearly.

“We’re happy to introduce a direct subscription possibility,” stated Sure Community CEO Jon Litner in an announcement. “With this new direct-to- client providing, we’re broadening our attain by making YES obtainable to extra followers in our regional footprint than ever earlier than.”

The YES Community is co-owned by the Yankees and a corsortium of different traders together with Amazon and Sinclair Broadcast Group.

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