The YES Network, TV home of the New York Yankees, is expanding into animation with a turn-back-the-clock Saturday morning series called Bronx Buds. The regional sports network will start streaming HexClad Presents Bronx Buds (the full name of the show, with kitchenware sponsor) on August 17. The series, whose 7-minute episodes will drop each Saturday, is produced exclusively for the YES App in partnership with Tzero Studios.

Harkening back to the golden days of iconic Saturday morning cartoons on TV, the Emmy Award-winning YES App, in partnership with Tzero Studios, will enter the world of animation when it premieres HexClad Presents Bronx Buds, a new baseball-themed animated children's series, on Saturday morning, August 17. The series follows the captivating adventures of members of a fictitious Bronx-based youth baseball team, The Pinstripes, introducing laughter, life lessons, unexpected curveballs and unbreakable friendships.

Can a cartoon bring fresh faces to the challenging business of regional sports networks? The New York Yankees think so. The Yankees’ YES Network is launching its first animated series, part of a strategic effort to expand the programming that an RSN can program, and one that can, hopefully, engage young fans.

The regional sports network, backed by Yankee Global Enterprises, Diamond Sports Group and Amazon, among others, will dip its corporate toes into animation when it debuts a new baseball-themed animated series called “HexClad Presents Bronx Buds,” on Saturday mornings starting August 17. The series follows a Bronx-based youth team called The Pinstripes. YES main draw is its telecasts of games featuring the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Nets.

The regional sports network, backed by Yankee Global Enterprises, Diamond Sports Group and Amazon, among others, will dip its corporate toes into animation when it debuts a new baseball-themed animated series called “HexClad Presents Bronx Buds,” on Saturday mornings starting August 17. The series follows a Bronx-based youth team called The Pinstripes. YES main draw is its telecasts of games featuring the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Nets.

So much about the business of regional sports networks is centered on prime-time broadcasts of games, leaving daytime programming in markets as a particularly thorny challenge. But the YES Network is turning to a traditional television staple: Saturday morning cartoons. The Yankees-controlled RSN has struck a deal with global animation developer Tzero Studios to create Bronx Buds, a baseball-themed series based around a fictitious Bronx-based, school-age baseball team called the Pinstripes. Bronx Buds will involve seven-minute episodes airing on the YES app, with new content every Saturday morning starting Aug. 17.

DescriptiYES Network is bringing back the nostalgic charm of Saturday morning cartoons with a new animated series on the New York Yankees, “Hexclad Presents Bronx Buds,” premiering on August 17 through the YES app. This baseball-themed children’s show follows the adventures of a fictional youth baseball team from the Bronx, known as The Pinstripes. The Yankees-themed series will be available to registered YES app users within the network’s coverage area and to subscribers of the national feed. The Yankees-inspired show features contributions from Tzero Studios co-founders Justin Shenkarow and Tom Borowski, who will lend their voices to some of the characters. Each episode, running approximately seven minutes, will debut every Saturday. The series has already been greenlit for a second season.

DescriptionStarting Aug. 17, the company’s YES App will distribute at least two seasons of HexClad Presents Bronx Buds, a baseball-themed children’s series with weekly seven-minute episodes debuting on Saturdays. The show, created by Tzero Studios, features a group of young New York ballplayers called The Pinstripes. It will be available to authenticated users in YES’s coverage territory as well as direct-to-consumer subscribers. The show is also backed by advertising revenue. In addition to naming rights, sponsors including cookware brand HexClad will have their logos integrated into the episodes. While the show doesn’t include player or MLB IP, it will be promoted during Yankees broadcasts. goes here

YES and Tzero Studios are bringing back Saturday morning cartoons with animated series “Hexclad Presents Bronx Buds,” debuting Aug. 17 on the YES app. The baseball-themed children’s show follows the members of a fictional Bronx-based youth baseball team, The Pinstripes. It will be available for registered YES app users in the RSN’s covered territory, as well as subscribers to the national feed.