YES posts highest average Yankees ratings since 2012
Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez watches his three-run homer in the ninth inning against the Houston Astros Tuesday, May 1, 2018, in Houston. Credit: AP / Michael Wyke
Yankees games on the YES Network averaged their highest rating since 2012 this season, averaging 3.6 percent of homes in the New York area, the network said, adding that its Yankees games outrated every other channel's average prime-time ratings in the New York market during the baseball season.
YES also said its pregame show averaged its best rating since 2009 and its postgame show had its best rating since 2011.
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.
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