YES Network and Comcast reached an eleventh-hour agreement that will keep the New York-area regional sports network live on the cable provider’s Xfinity offerings, at least for now. Awful Announcing has learned that Monday’s last-minute compact does not constitute a new long-term carriage agreement;

Yankees fans in the tri-state area breathed a sigh of relief after YES Network and Comcast came to an 11th-hour deal to avert a blackout.

Late Monday evening, Comcast and the YES Network issued a joint statement saying an agreement has been reached that keeps the regional sports network on Xfinity TV systems in the New York City metropolitan area.