{"id":7768,"date":"2016-03-02T13:11:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T18:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=7768"},"modified":"2016-03-02T13:11:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T18:11:45","slug":"no-yankees-spring-training-for-comcast-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/03\/no-yankees-spring-training-for-comcast-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"No Yankees Spring Training for Comcast Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6969\" style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/hqdefault.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6969\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6969\" class=\" wp-image-6969\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/hqdefault-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"YES Network Logo (Screenshot: YouTube)\" width=\"279\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/hqdefault-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/hqdefault-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/hqdefault.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">YES Network Logo (Screenshot: YouTube)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bronx Bombers fan?<\/p>\n<p>Spring training in Tampa began Wednesday, but Brick residents who tuned in to YES Network, where many spring training games are being broadcast, were\u00a0automatically redirected to other channels. Comcast, since November, has been in a dispute with YES, which has now continued into the spring season.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/02\/29\/comcasts-yankees-fans-still-cant-watch-yes-network\/\">report in the New York Post<\/a>, YES has commanded fees of\u00a0$4.89 per subscriber per month, and presumably asked for an increase during negotiations, leading Comcast to drop the network after reaching an impasse.<\/p>\n<p>YES said in a statement at the time that Comcast\u00a0was seeking\u00a0\u201cspecial treatment and anti-competitive terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though cable providers are often blamed during contract disputes, industry groups have said that television networks have consistently hiked rates, leading to higher cable bills for subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>YES is owned 80 percent by Fox and 20 percent by the Yankees organization.<\/p>\n<p>There was no telling when the Yanks will return to Comcast. The Post\u2019s sources said there has been <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/02\/29\/comcasts-yankees-fans-still-cant-watch-yes-network\/\">\u201clittle movement in the discussions.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/03\/no-yankees-spring-training-for-comcast-customers\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No live spring training coverage of the Bronx Bombers due to a contract dispute between Comcast and YES Network&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1648],"tags":[24,1440,1973,1974,1780],"class_list":["post-7768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-comcast","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-spring-training","tag-yes-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/hqdefault.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-21i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}