Fox Sports Net headquarters in Los Angeles.

The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net, are cable TV networks that were originally owned by separate companies. In addition, Fox Sports Net broadcasts sports news and talk across a range of radio affiliates. The most notable were the SportsChannel networks, which went on the air in 1977 with the original SportsChannel (now FSN New York), and Prime Network, which went on the air in 1983 with the charter member being Home Sports and Entertainment (now FSN Southwest). Fox also purchased SportSouth (now FSN South) from Turner Broadcasting in 1995. Fox Sports Net headquarters on Sepulveda Boulevard just south of Westwood, Los Angeles, California. ... Fox Sports Net headquarters on Sepulveda Boulevard just south of Westwood, Los Angeles, California. ... Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed optical... Jump to: navigation, search Talk radio is a radio format which features discussion of topical issues. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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Starting in September 2004, Fox Sports Net became known simply as FSN. 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: September 2004 in sports Deaths in September • 27 Tsai Wan-lin • 24 Françoise Sagan • 20 Brian Clough • 18 Russ Meyer • 15 Johnny Ramone • 12 Fred Ebb • 11 Peter VII of Alexandria • 8 Richard Girnt...

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Regional networks (former names in parentheses)

FSN networks

• FSN Arizona (Prime Sports Arizona)
• FSN Bay Area* (SportsChannel Pacific, San Francisco Bay Area) 40% owned by Fox, 60% owned by Comcast
• FSN Chicago* (SportsChannel Chicago) Cablevision recently took 100% ownership of this failing network
• FSN Detroit (Pro-Am Sports System, better known as PASS Sports)
• FSN Florida (SportsChannel Florida)
• FSN Houston (Feeds into FSN Southwest)
• FSN Midwest (Prime Sports Midwest, St. Louis area, with a sub-feed for Indiana)
• FSN New England* (SportsChannel New England) 50% owned by Comcast
• FSN New York* (SportsChannel New York, Co-run with MSG Network. Some MSG programming appears on FSNY and some Fox Sports Net programs appear on MSG.)
• FSN North (Midwest Sports Channel, Wisconsin)
• FSN Minnesota
• FSN Northwest (Prime Sports Northwest, Oregon/Washington)
• FSN Ohio (SportsChannel Ohio, several different feeds depending on location in Ohio)
• FSN Pittsburgh (Feed to West Virginia, KBL, then Prime Sports KBL)
• FSN Rocky Mountain (Prime Sports Rocky Mountain; Colorado, with a sub-feed for Utah)
• FSN South (SportSouth, several different sub-feeds including Memphis, Nashville, Charlotte and other areas in the South, default feed based in Atlanta)
• FSN Southwest (Home Sports and Entertainment, then Prime Sports Southwest; Texas/Louisiana/Oklahoma area)
• FSN West/West 2 (Prime Ticket and SportsChannel LA, Los Angeles/San Diego/Hawaii areas); note--FSN West 2 was a descendant of SportsChannel Los Angeles, where the teams formally on SCLA (going off the air in December 1993) re-appeared years later on FSN West 2, which went on the air in January 1997.

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In its recent parting of ways with Cablevision, Fox now has 100% ownership of the FSN national programming feed as well as National Advertising Partners (NAP) which sells national advertising.

Separate networks

The major regional sports networks that are not part of Fox Sports Net are:

• Sun Sports (Florida, although it is owned by Fox. May become FSN Florida 2)
• NESN (New England Sports Network), which is owned by the Boston Red Sox 80% and Boston Bruins 20%
• Empire Sports Network (upstate New York). Recently announced that it will be shut down with Sabres to be carried by MSG.
• YES (Yankees Entertainment and Sports) which is owned by the New York Yankees with 40% owned by Goldman Sachs.
• MSG Network (Madison Square Garden Network) (New York), owned by Cablevision through Rainbow Media Group
• Comcast SportsNet in Philadelphia
• Comcast SportsNet Mid Atlantic, formerly known as Home Team Sports (HTS), based in Washington, D.C.; Fox and Comcast acquired this network from Viacom in 2000 along with Midwest Sports Channel in Minneapolis and Milwuakee. Fox later purchased 100% of MSC in a swap with Comcast for HTS and renamed it FSN North.
• Comcast SportsNet Chicago (recently gained rights to Cubs, White Sox, Blackhawks and Bulls from FSN Chicago).
• Comcast SportsNet West, based in the Bay Area with rights to Sacramento Kings games.
• CSS (Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast, based in Atlanta with sub-regional feeds available).
• Altitude Sports & Entertainment, owned by Stan Kroenke, airs Colorado Avalanche hockey, Denver Nuggets basketball, Colorado Springs Sky Sox minor league baseball and other Denver and Rocky Mountain area sports & general interest programming
• Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), newly formed as part of the settlement between Major League Baseball and the Baltimore Orioles as part of the relocation of the Montréal Expos to Washington, D.C., MASN began broadcasting Washington National games in 2005 and will broadcast the Orioles in 2007 - supposedly replacing or suplanting CSN Mid Atlantic. Reports state that Orioles owner Peter Angelos has negiotated a large share of the ownership of the new network, perhaps as high as 90%.
• SportsNet New York, owned by the New York Mets, Time Warner and Comcast, which is scheduled to launch in 2006.

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External links

• FOX Sports website
• KaiserBlog RSN weblog