Report: WOR Places Bid to Air Yankees Baseball

Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, which owns WOR 710 AM, has made a recent bid in excess of the $14 million currently paid by CBS for the rights to the Yankees’ broadcasts, sources told The NYPost.

CBS, which owns WFAN 660 AM/ 101.9 FM as well as WCBS 880 AM, has owned the Yankees rights since 2002.   It seems unlikely CBS will let the rights go without a fight.

If Clear Channel grabs the Yankees, it would mean the Mets are alive with both WFAN, the franchise’s radio home since the station went on the air in 1987, and ESPN. The team, which receives between $6 million and $7 million a year under its current deal, could even find itself the object of a bidding war.

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