On March 19, 2002, the YES Network, the most-watched regional sports network in the country the past nine years, launched with the below programming. Watch the historic video here:
More historic videos from YES:
More historic videos from YES:
- YES' first day on the air, Pt. 2
- First-ever CenterStage w/ Joe Torre
- First-ever Mike & the Mad Dog
- First Yankees Spring Training broadcast on YES
- First Yankees regular season broadcast on YES
- Johnny Oates ceremonial first pitch
- First-ever YES Magazine (David Wells' house)
- First-ever Ultimate Road Trip
- Giants Online debuts on YES
- First-ever This Week in Football
- First-ever Yankeeography (Derek Jeter)
- First-ever Forbes SportsMoney
- First-ever YESterdays (Joba Chamberlain)
- The Marv Albert Show debuts on YES
- First-ever SportsLife NYC
- Nets raise '01-'02 Conf. Championship banner
- Derek Jeter's dive into the stands
- Ten years of Nets on YES
- The best CenterStage stories
- The biggest stars to appear on CenterStage
- A look back at HOPE Week
- Derek Jeter's 3,000th hit
- The wisdom of Yogi
- Mike and the Mad Dog
- Before they were famous
- The 2009 World Champion Yankees
- Remembering icons
- Nets banner raising
From YES' first game all the way up to 3D and everything in between. Track the evolution of the YES Network here.
Glee star Jenna Ushkowitz hosted YES' Yankees on Deck show during the 2006 season. Hillary Duff also appeared in 10 episodes of Yankees on Deck in 2004.
Yankees fans have heard many memorable voices call the action over the years, including Joe Girardi, Bobby Murcer and Paul O'Neill.
There has been a great deal of change over the past decade. When YES first hit the air, Friends was TV's No. 1 show and Nicole Kidman was People's Most Beautiful Person. Some things, however, stayed the same, especially the Yankees closer role.
CenterStage has welcomed some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment, including Lindsey Vonn, Spike Lee and Yogi Berra.
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