Mets fans eye SNY carriage scoreboard.(SportsNet New York)

Multichannel News, February, 2006 by Gibbons, Kent

Major League Baseball fans are always optimistic come spring, before the regular season starts. The same might well be said of millions of fans in the New York City region whose cable provider doesn't have an affiliate deal yet with SportsNet New York, the new network partly owned by the New York Mets.

SNY, which will air 125 Mets games this year, also is owned partly by Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable. Their cable systems will carry the new network. So if you're a fan in Northern New Jersey or Manhattan, you can pick from four regional sports networks when this newest one debuts March 16.

The key number there being "four." In an unprecedented test of the New York City market's willingness to accept overkill, SNY will air alongside Madison...

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