Apparently the New York Yankees are bringing their over the air (OTA) games to WTIC-TV FOX 61 in Hartford for the 2008 season. WWOR My9 is the Yankees OTA flagship station and other stations in different markets pick up the OTA games. In years past WCTX TV My9 and WTXX TV CW20 broadcast the Yankee OTA games to the Hartford market. Now according to a teaser I saw on FOX 61 they will be the Yankees OTA affiliate in Hartford.
The Yankees very own regional cable sports network YES carries a majority of the Yankees games with select games being broadcast on the OTA channels. At this time I don’t have a breakdown on the amount of games between cable and the OTA stations but this is a big deal for Yankee fans in Northern Connecticut and Western Massachusetts. Most cable systems in these area’s do not carry YES even though there are adequate numbers of Yankee fans in those area’s to justify it.
