More viewers in the New York market watched the Mets than the Yankees for the first time since the teams two regional sports networks started competing in 2006.
Bloomberg reports SNY, the home of the Mets, averaged 263,850 viewers compared to the 218,000 for YES, the home of the Yankees, this season. The Mets’ 2.73 household rating and viewership numbers were its highest since 2008. The Yankees haven’t released the final viewership numbers yet.
Part of the reason for the dip in Yankees’ ratings is the ongoing dispute between YES, majority-owned by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Inc., and Comcast Corp., which has kept the team’s games out of about 900,000 homes, about 65 percent of which are in the official New York TV market.
AdvertisementThe Mets finished the season 87-75, securing the first of two National League Wild Card spots. They’ll host the San Francisco Giants in the one-game Wild Card playoff on Oct. 5. The Yankees finished 84-78, five games out of the playoffs. Winners of a record 27 World Series titles, the Yankees have made the playoffs once in the past four seasons.