The Yankees TV baseball impasse might get settled by a couple of moguls arm-wrestling at a table.
Leo Hindery, head of the Yankees’ YES Network, which is battling Cablevision to get Yankee games shown on its cable systems, is challenging his foe to settle their fight at the table with an outside arbitrator.
Hindery said in a newspaper ad in today’s editions of The Post, that “if Cablevision doesn’t agree to arbitration or mediation, then it is being less than honest about its true motivations and intentions in prolonging this dispute.”
“That is just wrong. It is also illegal, and it is unfair to you. Let’s go before a third party, reach an agreement and let New York Yankees and New Jersey Nets fans again watch their teams.”
“This ad is nothing more than a phony publicity stunt,” Cablevison said in a statement.
“If they were serious about mediation they would drop the lawsuit,” Cablevision said.