NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Columbus Sports Network

The Columbus Sports Network (CSN) is a cable and broadcast television station, exclusive to the Columbus, Ohio market, that launched on March 24, 2007. CSN is Central Ohio's first and only 24/7, local and regional all-sports television station, broadcasting events, features, highlights and news on professional, collegiate, scholastic and amateur sports teams in the area. It plans on starting it's own "Columbus SportsCenter" later this year. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Nickname: The Arch City The Discovery City Location in the state of Ohio, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Ohio Counties Franklin, Delaware, and Fairfield - Mayor Michael B. Coleman (D) Area - City 212. ... A brand is a customer experience represented by a collection of images and ideas; often, it refers to a symbol such as a name, logo, slogan, and design scheme. ... Look up slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies (or, equivalently, wavelengths) assigned by a government for the operation of a particular broadcast station. ... Ultra high frequency (UHF) designates a range (band) of electromagnetic waves whose frequency is between 300 MHz and 3. ... Analog television (or analogue television) encodes television picture and sound information as an analog signal, that is, by varying the amplitude and/or frequencies of the broadcast signal. ... Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional antenna (or aerial) instead of a satellite dish or cable connection. ... An affiliate is a commercial entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity. ... The Columbus Destroyers are an Arena Football League team, founded in Buffalo, New York in 1999. ... League International League Division West Division Year founded 1977 Major League affiliation Washington Nationals Home ballpark Cooper Stadium Previous home ballparks City Columbus, Ohio Current uniform colors navy blue, white, grey Previous uniform colors Logo design A navy blue capital C outlined in white and grey with a ship centered... Year founded 1994 League Major League Soccer Nickname The Crew, Americas Hardest Working Team Stadium Columbus Crew Stadium Columbus, OH Coach Sigi Schmid, 2006 Owner Clark Hunt First Game Columbus Crew 4â€“0 D.C. United (Ohio Stadium; April 13, 1996) Largest Win Columbus Crew 6â€“1 New England... OHSAA (Ohio High School Athletic Association): The governing body of scholastic athletics in the State of Ohio. ... OAC may refer to: One America Committee Ontario Academic Credit Ontario Agricultural College This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... NCAC could refer to: National Coalition Against Censorship Northern Combat Area Command Nevada County Arts Council - art council in California, USA. North Coast Athletic Conference National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America Category: ... The Ohio State University (OSU) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Ohio. ... March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (84th in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... Nickname: The Arch City The Discovery City Location in the state of Ohio, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Ohio Counties Franklin, Delaware, and Fairfield - Mayor Michael B. Coleman (D) Area - City 212. ...

CSN broadcasts over the air on Channel 32 (using the call letters WCSN-LP) and is available on all the local cable television systems. Insight broadcasts the network on Channels 78 and 524, WOW broadcasts it on Channel 97 and Time Warner carries it on Channel 78.

CSN is going to broadcast approximately 400 live events each year featuring the Columbus Crew (home games), Columbus Destroyers (home games), Columbus Clippers (select games), minor Ohio State University sports (including volleyball, lacrosse, and tennis), College Lacrosse and Baseball from universities from the OAC and NCAC, high schools from the OHSAA, and various other events. Year founded 1994 League Major League Soccer Nickname The Crew, Americas Hardest Working Team Stadium Columbus Crew Stadium Columbus, OH Coach Sigi Schmid, 2006 Owner Clark Hunt First Game Columbus Crew 4â€“0 D.C. United (Ohio Stadium; April 13, 1996) Largest Win Columbus Crew 6â€“1 New England... The Columbus Destroyers are an Arena Football League team, founded in Buffalo, New York in 1999. ... League International League Division West Division Year founded 1977 Major League affiliation Washington Nationals Home ballpark Cooper Stadium Previous home ballparks City Columbus, Ohio Current uniform colors navy blue, white, grey Previous uniform colors Logo design A navy blue capital C outlined in white and grey with a ship centered... The Ohio State University (OSU) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Ohio. ... OAC may refer to: One America Committee Ontario Academic Credit Ontario Agricultural College This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... NCAC could refer to: National Coalition Against Censorship Northern Combat Area Command Nevada County Arts Council - art council in California, USA. North Coast Athletic Conference National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America Category: ... OHSAA (Ohio High School Athletic Association): The governing body of scholastic athletics in the State of Ohio. ...

Its first event was a Columbus Destroyers Arena Football game on the evening of the networks first broadcast day. Arena football is a sport invented by Jim Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League and the National Football League. ...

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Regional sports networks: Fox Sports Net • 4SD • Altitude • Buckeye Cable Sports Network • Columbus Sports Network • Comcast SportsNet • CSS • CST • MASN • MSG • NESN • SportSouth • SNY • STO • Sun Sports • YES A Regional Sports Network, or RSN, is a cable television station that presents sports programming to a local market. ... Fox Sports Net headquarters in Los Angeles. ... Channel 4 San Diego (or 4SD, also known as Channel 4 Padres) is a local origination cable channel based in San Diego, California, and is owned and operated by Cox Communications, through its San Diego-based cable television system. ... Category: ... Buckeye Cable Sports Network is a regional sports network founded in 2003 (and first went on the air on January 7, 2004) to carry sports broadcasting, which had previously been aired on fellow cable-only station WT05. ... Comcast SportsNet (or CSN) is a group of four regional sports networks. ... CSS is a regional sports cable television network based in Atlanta, Georgia, serving 4. ... Cox Sports Television (CST) is a regional sports channel that serves the Gulf South region. ... Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) is a joint network that broadcasts both Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals games in the Washington/Baltimore area. ... The Madison Square Garden Network, now shortened to simply MSG, is a regional cable television and radio network serving the New York City area. ... The New England Sports Network or NESN [NESS-en] is a regional cable television network that covers the six New England states. ... SportSouth is a regional sports network in the United States, with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. ... SportsNet New York, also known as SNY, is a New York City-based sports cable network which airs in the New York metro area and all of New York state, and nationwide via satellite. ... SportsTime Ohio (or STO) is a regional sports television network in Cleveland and northern Ohio, Launched in 2006. ... Sun Sports is a Florida sports broadcasting network, headquartered in Orlando. ... The Yankees Entertainment and Sports (YES) Network is a New York City regional cable TV channel dedicated to broadcasting baseball games of the New York Yankees, and basketball games of the New Jersey Nets. ...

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Spanish language: ESPN Deportes • Fox Sports en Español This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ... ESPN Deportes is an cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... Fox Sports en EspaÃ±ol is an cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ...

Broadband services: ESPN360 • WCSN Broadband in telecommunications is a term which refers to a signaling method which includes or handles a relatively wide range of frequencies which may be divided into channels or frequency bins. ... ESPN360 is a video content player that can be found at ESPN360. ...

Defunct networks: C-SET • CNNSI • Empire • Mizlou • OnTV • SCORE • SportsChannel America • SportsChannel Los Angeles • Sports Time • TVS • Victory Sports Carolinas Sports and Entertainment Television, or C-SET, was a regional sports network in the United States that was in operation from October 2004 until June 2005. ... CNN Sports Illustrated (or CNN/SI for short) was a 24-hour sports news channel. ... Empire Sports Network was a regional cable television network which served Upstate New York from Buffalo to Albany, parts of northern Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. ... In 1961, while working for the PGW TV sales firm, Vic Piano was approached by the Peach Bowl Football Game in Atlanta, looking for a way to get the game televised when the three major networks rejected its coverage. ... OnTV was a pay television operator in the late 1970s and early 1980s that operated in major markets such as Los Angeles and Chicago. ... SCORE was a joint venture with Financial News Network which aired sports-themed programming in the 1980s. ... SportsChannel America was a cable television network that existed in the 1980s and early 1990s. ... SportsChannel Los Angeles aired from 1989 to 1993 in the southern California area; it was a regional sports network. ... Sports Time was a regional sports network in the United States. ... TVS was a syndicator of American sports programming. ... The Minnesota Twins baseball team launched the Victory Sports Network as a cable and satellite television regional sports network in October 2003. ...

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