Update for NYCFC fans: The YES Network will no longer be available via the Hulu+ Live TV subscription service. This means that NYCFC matches for the rest of the season on YES is no longer available to Hulu subscribers. Fans can continue to listen at nycfc.com/radio. There are many video providers that do offer the YES Network – click here to see your options.
On-Air Personalities
Ian Joy - @JOYPAULIAN
Ian Joy is an analyst on the YES Network's telecasts of New York City Football Club soccer matches.
The YES Network, the most-watched regional sports network in the country 12 of the last 13 years, is the exclusive local television home of the 27-time World Champion New York Yankees, the Brooklyn Nets, and MLS' New York City FC. The network has won 80 New York Emmy Awards since its 2002 launch.
Joy played over 250 league games for five different teams in England, Scotland, Germany, and the MLS. Joy's 14-year pro career started in Scotland before he moved on to England and then to Germany (playing for Hamburger SV and then FC St Pauli in the Bundesliga). After joining Real Salt Lake in 2008, he helped the team reach the playoffs that year, the first post-season berth in franchise history. After an injury-plagued start to the 2009 MLS season for Real Salt Lake, Joy returned to Germany for a brief spell before accepting an offer stateside to captain the 2010 Portland Timbers team in what would turn out to be his last-ever season as a player.
Following his retirement, Joy did TV and radio color commentary for FC Dallas and Real Salt Lake. Since August 2012, Joy has been a soccer analyst for beIN Sports, where he has held multiple roles including color commentator and studio analyst working on Serie A, French Ligue 1 and La Liga telecasts. He regularly appears on beIN Sports'The Locker Room, a studio show that discusses and debates controversial games of the weekend. He also hosted beIN Sports' 2014 World Cup studio show from Rio.
Joy was born in San Diego and was raised in Scotland.
Joe Tolleson - @joetolleson
Joe Tolleson handles play-by-play duties on the YES Network's telecasts of New York City Football Club soccer matches.
The YES Network, the most-watched regional sports network in the country 12 of the last 13 years, is the exclusive local television home of the 27-time World Champion New York Yankees, the Brooklyn Nets, and MLS' New York City FC. The network has won 80 New York Emmy Awards since its 2002 launch.
Tolleson has done play-by-play for ESPN International's coverage of the UEFA Champions League (Union of European Football Association), the CONCACAF Champions League (Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football), Serie A (Italy), La Liga (Spain), Eredivisie (Holland), and the World Cup Qualifiers. He is also the Executive Producer of SiriusXM FC 94, the 24-hour soccer channel on satellite radio.
Tolleson has covered every Winter and Summer Olympics for Westwood One Radio since 2002, announcing soccer and other sports. He handled play-by-play duties at MSG Network for the New York Red Bulls (including when the team was known as the NY/NJ MetroStars), and the New York Power of the WUSA. In addition, he is the New York Rangers' arena announcer at Madison Square Garden, has done radio play-by-play for the team and hosted NHL Radio's studio show for nine years.
Tolleson received a bachelor's degree in Radio, Television, and Film from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Janusz Michallik - @JanuszMichallik
Janusz Michallik is an analyst on the YES Network's New York City Football Club telecasts.
The YES Network, the most-watched regional sports network in the country 12 of the last 13 years, is the exclusive local television home of the 27-time World Champion New York Yankees, the Brooklyn Nets, and MLS' New York City FC. The network has won 92 New York Emmy Awards since its 2002 launch and has accumulated 402 Emmy Award nominations.
A native of Poland, Michallik began his professional soccer career in 1983 with Gwardia Warszawa in Poland before he moved to the United States at age 16. Janusz amassed 44 caps with the U.S. Men's National Team from 1991-1994 and won the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 1991 and US Cup in 1992 with the team. The Columbus Crew selected Michallik in the seventh round of the first-ever MLS Draft in 1996. He played with the Crew for two seasons from 1996 to 1997 before playing a season for the New England Revolution in 1998.
Michallik is also an analyst on ESPN's soccer programming, including Serie A in Italy, La Liga in Spain, German Bundesliga, the German Cup, Dutch Eredivisie, UEFA Champions League, World Cup, and the European Championships. Michallik has also been seen worldwide on ESPN's Press Pass soccer show and was an analyst on ESPN Radio during the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
In addition, Michallik covers the Barclays Premier League, UEFA Champions League, and MLS as a studio analyst for TSN - The Sports Network, in Canada. He is also an analyst for One World Sports' New York Cosmos and NASL coverage. Additionally, Michallik is a pundit host on SiriusXM FC and a football-soccer analyst with Fox Sports 1.
Michallik covered men's and women's college soccer games for CBS on Sports Network from 2012-2014. He also served on the Board of Directors for the U.S. Soccer Foundation from 2003-2009.