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YES Network Sues Time Warner Cable

By Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 8/29/2003 12:15:00 PM MT

Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network Friday afternoon sued Time Warner Cable for breach of contract, following the MSO’s July 29 move to give its New York-area customers the option to drop the service and save $1 on their monthly cable bill.

Filed in the Supreme Court of New York County, the suit seeks a permanent injunction prohibiting the 'negative repositioning' of YES, and would make Time Warner live up to its obligations under its affiliation agreement to continue to distribute the network on 'standard' expanded basic, as opposed to 'standard plus,' which costs $1 extra per month with the 'à la carte addition of YES.'

The suit also seeks unspecified damages and reimbursement of legal fees.

In a prepared statement, the sports network, home to New York Yankees regular-season Major League Baseball games and New Jersey Nets National Basketball Association action, said that Time Warner is in 'violation of its affiliate agreements with YES as a result of its recent action to negatively reposition' the service.

'We believe that this action is not allowed under the ‘most favored nation’ clause

Time Warner Cable officials could not be reached by press time. It was unclear it MSO executives had been served with the document last week.

It was unclear how many Time Warner Cable subscribers have dropped YES since they were afforded that choice and are thus saving the $1 on their monthly bill.

A source familiar with the situation, though, labeled the defections as 'minimal.'

Should YES lose Time Warner customers, Cablevision Systems Corp. - which had a protracted carriage battle with the network in 2002 - under the terms of an interim agreement reached in March, would indemnify the regional sports network for revenue reductions, due to subscriber subtractions and legal fees for a year.

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