The Yankees’ YES Network has turned itself around in, well, a New York minute.
Game ratings are up about 60 percent this year from a dismal 2016, when the Bronx Bombers didn’t make the playoffs and cable giant Comcast Corp. had booted the Fox-owned network out of about 900,000 of its subscribers’ homes in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and northeastern Pennsylvania in what the industry calls a carriage dispute.
No YES, no Yankees.
“We needed the baseball gods and a little bit of luck and we were positioned to capitalize if the team performed, and that’s what we did,” said YES Network president and former Comcast exec Jon Litner on his cellphone as he drove back from a board meeting for Little League Baseball and Softball in Williamsport late last week.