Verizon has announced that it has joined with The YES Network and started offering New York Yankees baseball games online live to FiOS TV and broadband subscribers with the Yankees-Mariners game on YES Network on Aug.14. Verizon and the YES Network multi-year agreement will provide Verizon Internet customers who subscribe to FiOS TV and also are receiving the YES Network in-market programming as part of their TV package will be able to buy access to live, streaming coverage of Yankees games throughout the remainder of the 2009 regular season.
Ray Hopkins, COO, the YES Network said, “This broadband offering provides Verizon customers with unprecedented convenience and portability. It comes on the heels of our agreement with Verizon earlier this year, enabling Verizon FiOS TV customers to watch our Yankees telecasts and other Emmy Award-winning YES programming on demand. This is another example of our utilizing new platforms in order to bring Yankees fans closer than ever to their favorite team and players.”
Terry Denson, Verizon vice president of FiOS TV content and programming, said, “The agreement with the YES Network further illustrates Verizon’s focus on bringing information and entertainment to its customers, through various technologies. In addition, for those FiOS TV customers in the YES Network market who also qualify for Verizon’s recently launched broadband Wi-Fi service, this partnership will allow them to watch the live games at hot spots in coffee shops, bookstores, hotels and other public areas within the YES in-market footprint.”
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