YES Network has added seven distributors to the list of those...
YES Network has added seven distributors to the list of those showing the first Major League Baseball games to be televised in 3D, between the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners this weekend. Joining in the telecast with DirecTV,…
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a co-sponsor of the event along with Panasonic, are Blue Ridge Communications, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox, Service Electric, Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS. The game is being played in Seattle, but the feed is being offered only to current YES Network affiliates in the Yankee’s home-team TV viewing territory. “The million-dollar question” is how many viewers the 3D broadcast will reach, said Eric Handler, vice president of communications at YES Network. “There’s no way of trying to come up with any kind of ballpark figure because it hasn’t been done before.” Regardless of the outcome, no additional 3D games are planned this summer, Handler said.