YES Network, DIRECT TV, Inc. and MLB.com have reached a multi-year agreement to present the first-ever interactive TV content for Major League Baseball. This interactive content will be taking place on the YES Network (Channel 622) broadcasts of the New York Yankees regular season games in its home telecast market beginning in July 2006. This special feature is only available on DIRECTV!

With this joint venture, the YES Network becomes the first regional sports network (RSN) in the entire country to offer its viewers true, single-screen interactive content. MLB.com, the official Web site of Major League Baseball, will be the source for the application's continually updated statistics, scores, records and other related data.

YES' first-ever interactive programming offering – which includes live, up-to-the-minute statistics, box scores and scoreboards, a bonus "StarCam" camera focusing on a particular star each inning, a daily interactive game and much more, will result in an unsurpassed viewer experience, enabling DIRECT TV satellite TV baseball fans to interact in real-time with other Yankees fans. The enhanced features will be available to DIRECTV customers living in the YES Network footprint at no additional cost.

The YES Network is available as part of DIRECT TV's TOTAL CHOICE® monthly programming service to residential customers in the YES Network footprint, including New York and Connecticut, and areas of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. DIRECTV customers living in these areas must have an interactive-capable DIRECT TV Receiver to access the enhanced features.

DIRECTV also offers sport subscription packages, which includes the MLB Extra Innings. For more information about the required hardware and programming options contact American Satellite & Entertainment at (888) 999-7331 or visit www.AmericanSatellite.com.