For the next three Major League Baseball seasons, fans of the National League MLB club that calls Citi Field its home will be able to continue tuning to a Nexstar Media Group operated — but not owned — TV station in New York to follow all of the play-by-play action.
And, for the first time, stations in Upstate N.Y. and in Connecticut will join WPIX-11 in offering live broadcasts of New York Mets games.
WPIX, owned by Mission Broadcasting but run under a shared services agreement by the largest single owner of broadcast TV stations in the U.S., announced Monday that it has renewed its multi-platform agreement with SNY (formerly SportsChannel New York).
This will allow WPIX-11 to continue to air Mets games through the 2028 season, extending a partnership with the regional sports network available on MVPDs across the New York Tri-State Area first formed in 2006. A total of 30 games will appear over-the-air across the 2026, 2027 and 2028 seasons. Twenty-five of these games are regular season matches that will air Friday evenings as a “Mets Game of the Week,” preceded by a 30-minute live pre-game show.
The bigger news is that Nexstar-owned stations in Albany, Binghamton, Syracuse and Utica-Rome will also now air Mets games, expanding broadcasts beyond WPIX-11 within the Mets territorial rights area. The same goes for Nexstar’s Hartford-New Haven broadcast assets, comprised of WTNH-8 and WCTX-59.
Specific stations were not revealed by Nexstar, which owns WTEN-10 and WXXA-23 in New York’s Capital District; WIVT-34 and low-powered simulcast partner WBGH-CD in Binghamton; WSYR-9 in Syracuse; and WFXV-33, low-power WPNY-11, and WUTR-20 in Utica-Rome, N.Y.
Each market will also have access to authenticated online streaming.
Mets games feature announcer Gary Cohen alongside Mets 1986 World Champions stars Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling, with field reporter Steve Gelbs also contributing.
Nexstar/New York VP/General Manager Chris McDonnell commented, “As the broadcast home of Mets baseball for more than two decades, PIX11 is proud to extend this winning tradition. Reaching Mets fans in five additional Nexstar markets across upstate New York and in Hartford is a clear demonstration of the enduring power of broadcast television and PIX11’s unique connection to Mets fans across the region.”
Across the 1980s, WWOR-9 was the home of Mets broadcasts ahead of the rise of RSNs in the New York Tri-State area; WPIX-11 was the flagship TV station of the New York Yankees.
