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The Yankees were the lead investors in a group that included Amazon and Sinclair Broadcast Group that bought 80% of the YES Network from Walt Disney in August 2019. The enterprise value of the deal was $3.47 billion. Prior to the deal, the Yankees owned 20% of the regional sports network. Last summer, Disney agreed to sell off 21st Century Fox’s 22 regional sports networks to secure Justice Department approval of its acquisition of major 21st Century Fox assets. The Yankees launched YES, the most-watched regional sports network in the country, in 2002, and the original investors were the team, Goldman Sachs, Quadrangle Group, the owners of the New Jersey (now Brooklyn) Nets, and others. A minority stake in YES was sold to Fox in 2012, and Fox increased its stake to 80% in 2014. The valuation of the sale to Fox was over $4 billion (including $1.7 billion of debt), with the Yankees share valued at $4.2 billion and the remaining portion valued at $3.9 billion.
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