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A regional sports network (RSN) in the United States and Canada is a television channel that presents sports programming to a local media market or geographical region. Such channels often focus on one or a few teams who currently play in Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, and/or National Hockey League.
Root Sports Northwest, sometimes branded simply as Root Sports, is an American regional sports network owned by the Seattle Mariners.Headquartered near Seattle in the city of Bellevue, Washington, the channel broadcasts regional coverage of sports events throughout the Pacific Northwest, with a focus on professional sports teams based in Seattle and Portland.
The network was purchased by the Fenway Sports Group in 2023, shortly after Warner Bros. Discovery Sports dissolved its AT&T SportsNet regional network chain. FSG, who own the Boston Red Sox (and by extension its home network NESN ), also own a majority stake in the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League .
While the Blackhawks, Bulls and the rest of the programming on the new Chicago Sports Network remains blacked out on Comcast, the cable giant is raising the monthly fee it charges subscribers to ...
The stations are FanDuel Sports Network affiliates after Diamond reached a naming rights deal with FanDuel last month. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has remained bullish about the long-term financial prospects of all 30 teams, but has also acknowledged that there might be some short-term pain as the transition continues.
MLB Local Media is a division of Major League Baseball that produces and distributes regional television broadcasts for various MLB teams. Established prior to the 2023 season, and leveraging resources from MLB Network, the division has primarily served teams who no longer had a broadcaster due to business issues affecting their regional sports network rightsholders, including the then-ongoing ...
Regional Radio Sports first broadcast in 1992 on WWJY (now WXRD) in Crown Point, Indiana. In order to establish a footprint in the Michiana region, RRS soon joined forces with WAMJ in South Bend to create the first network. [1] WAMJ was the first home for RRSN's coverage of Penn High School football, [2] which now airs on affiliate WGCS.
Continuation of the Astros and Rockets broadcasts on Fox Sports Houston was on the table as the network offered $1.2 billion over 10 years. However, it was ownership in a regional sports network that the two teams wanted. This led to the teams agreeing to a $1 billion contract with Comcast, which included a 77.307% ownership in the network. [8]