Before it was Fox Sports Net...

[Typical Phenom]

For some reason, I keep thinking that before it became Fox Sports Rocky Mountain, Fox Sports Chicago, etc...the station was called something else. I know there was another sports station besides ESPN, right? Anyone who can help me remember, thanks.

[Guest Bluesman]

I don't know that there was one, was there? I know there was a CNN/SI network, but I'm pretty sure that just got shut down because they couldn't compete.

[Typical Phenom]

I thought it was the same station that's now Fox Sports Net....but it wasn't called Fox Sports Net. I remember watching the Nuggets games way back when. Maybe I'm losin my mind.

[naiwf]

In New York, it used to be Sports Channel I believe.

[TigerDriver98]

Where I live (California), it used to be called "Prime Sports" before Fox took it over. Which kinda sucked but they got rid of ECW! (which Prime Sports used to air late at night)

[Guest Bluesman]

I think what it was is all the local sports networks being bought up and being combined into one large network. For example, in Minnesota here we used to have Midwest Sports Channel, which then became Fox Sports.

[Psicosis]

The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net, are cable TV networks that were originally owned by separate companies. The most notable were the SportsChannel networks, which went on the air in 1977 with the original SportsChannel (now Fox Sports New York), and the Prime Sports Networks, which went on the air in 1983 with the charter member being Prime Sports Southwest (now Fox Sports Southwest).

During the 1990s, News Corporation, which launched the Fox Network in 1986, bought both the Prime Sports and SportsChannel regional sports networks.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/FOX%20Sports%20Net

[Lowerdeck]

Yeah, I remember SportsChannel New England changed over to what's now FSN New England. 1997-98 ish time.

[Franchise]

Where I live (California), it used to be called "Prime Sports" before Fox took it over. Which kinda sucked but they got rid of ECW! (which Prime Sports used to air late at night)

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