The Mets are leaving WFAN and the Yankees reportedly are nearing an agreement that would move the team’s radio broadcasts from WCBS to WFAN, beginning in 2014.
If a deal is reached, it would bump the Mets to another station after their games were carried by WFAN since the station’s creation in 1987. Mets COO Jeff Wilpon called the report “fairly accurate.”
Yankees COO Lonn Trost told Newsday on Tuesday the team is “close” to an agreement, but he would not confirm the landing spot for the team’s coveted broadcast rights.
“Right now we’re in negotiations and everything is confidential,” Trost said. “Part of the agreement we’re drafting has a confidentiality agreement. I can’t even get into it. I am close with some entity for next year. Things have gone in so many directions with this negotiation. … I can’t tell you today if it will be the same thing tomorrow.”
John Sterling is expected to stay on as the Yankees’ play-by-play man with analyst Suzyn Waldman also expected to make the move, though her spot is not as secure as Sterling’s, according to the report.
Wilpon, who visited a Manhattan firehouse on Tuesday, was not certain where on the radio dial the Mets would land.
“Right now we’re still negotiating with several parties about what we’re going to do with our radio rights,” he said.