NEW YORK -- The YES Network proposed an agreement to Cablevision late Saturday that would allow the cable distributor's 3 million subscribers to watch New York Yankees games starting Opening Day.

Under the plan, Cablevision would assume the same terms for 90 days that YES has with Time Warner and Comcast -- $2.12 per subscriber per month -- and the sides would enter binding arbitration immediately. Arbitration would be completed by the end of the three months and that decision would be retroactive to Monday, when the Yankees play their first regular-season game in Toronto.

"We're committed to getting the Yankees games on the air on Opening Day,'' YES chairman Leo Hindery said in a statement.

Cablevision declined to comment on the proposal.

A one-year agreement announced March 12 fell through on Friday. Each side blamed the other, alleging last-minute maneuvers to change the contract.

The March 12 deal was described at the time as an interim, one-year agreement that would allow fans to see this year's games while the sides negotiated a longer-term deal. A pricing dispute had kept Yankee games off Cablevision all last year, the debut season of the YES Network.

"All we've done is shorten the interim,'' Hindery said in a telephone interview Saturday night. "We think it is a very quick and easy solution.''

Both sides said Friday they were willing to negotiate further, but expressed doubt that anything could happen in time for Opening Day of the baseball season.

YES is owned by YankeeNets, the sports media company that owns the Yankees, the New Jersey Nets and the New Jersey Devils. The network has exclusive rights to most Yankees games.

Last season's dispute cost the YES Network more than $60 million in subscriber fees, and tens of millions more in advertising. Cablevision lost 39,400 subscribers last year.

The YES Network went on the air last April. Cablevision owns Madison Square Garden, the MSG Network, and the New York Knicks and Rangers. The Yankees appeared on the MSG Network for 13 seasons before YES debuted.