The New York Yankees Radio Network is a CBS-owned broadcast radio network that broadcasts New York Yankees (formerly owned by CBS) baseball games. The network is made up of 52 AM and FM stations in fourteen states. The network's flagship station for the network is WCBS in New York City, which produces each broadcast in association with the team, and its title sponsor is the Jeep division of Chrysler LLC; thus, the Yankees broadcasts are tagged as being on "The New York Yankees Radio Network Driven by Jeep."
All-sports-radio sister station WFAN has also served as the team's radio flagship station. In a rare move, WFAN carried the live broadcast of the Yankees day/night doubleheader at the Baltimore Orioles on August 28, 2011, so WCBS could remain within its usual news format for live, continuing coverage of Hurricane Irene.
The YES Network provides some technical support for each broadcast, and XM Satellite Radio carries the network's feed for every home game the Yankees play as per their contract. A separate, Spanish-language broadcast airs on New York's WADO, 1280 AM.
The network was formed in 2002 after WCBS outbid former Yankees radio flagship WABC for the radio rights to the team.
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