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;

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.

In a surprise development, YES Network and Comcast on Monday night reached a new carriage agreement, coming to terms on a deal just hours before the regional sports network was set to go dark in Xfinity households across northern New Jersey,