Minor League Baseball and College Sports
Since the network's debut, YES has aired select cablecasts of the Yankees' minor league teams, primarily the Class-A (short season) Staten Island Yankees of the New York-Penn League. Those games are produced by YES, with the same graphics and announcers as the big league Yankees.
From 2002 to 2006, YES also showed games of the Yankees' former Class-AAA team, the Columbus Clippers of the International League. Those games were locally produced in Columbus, Ohio. After the 2006 season, the Yankees ended their affiliation with the Clippers, and are now affiliated with the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees (formerly Red Barons). No SWB Yankee games have aired on YES, although the team has local coverage in its own market.
YES also shows Ivy League college sports, Big 12 conference basketball through ESPN Plus, and rebroadcasts of Notre Dame football games. It also carries coaches' shows for Notre Dame and Penn State. Since 2011 YES has broadcast live basketball games from Fordham University.
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