Root Sports regional channels are now AT&T Sports Networks

[Tom Wolper]

Root Sports had 4 channels: Northwest, Pittsburgh, Rocky Mountain and Southwest. It had rights to MLB teams in Colorado, Pittsburgh and Seattle, the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins, NBA’s Utah Jazz and MLS teams in Portland and Seattle. It was owned by DirecTV, which was bought up by AT&T. So now the branding has changed with no expected changes in programming or personnel.

http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/root-sports-regional-nets-now-part-of-att-sports-networks.html

[Jim Ellwanger]

On Apr 11, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Tom Wolper <two...@gmail.com> wrote:

Root Sports had 4 channels: Northwest, Pittsburgh, Rocky Mountain and Southwest. It had rights to MLB teams in Colorado, Pittsburgh and Seattle, the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins, NBA’s Utah Jazz and MLS teams in Portland and Seattle. It was owned by DirecTV, which was bought up by AT&T. So now the branding has changed with no expected changes in programming or personnel.

http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/root-sports-regional-nets-now-part-of-att-sports-networks.html

“Root Sports” is still the name they’re using for the networks themselves — here’s a screenshot of a replay-to-live bumper that came from the Pirates-Tigers game that’s going on right now:  http://i.imgur.com/JstAHdK.png

 Within the corporate structure, the Root Sports networks had been under a DirecTV subsidiary called “DirecTV Sports Networks,” which is what changed its name to “AT&T Sports Networks” on Friday. So the main difference is that they’ve added “AT&T Sports Networks” on-air branding (in the form of the logo bug, not visible in my screenshot because it came via MLB.tv).

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Jim Ellwanger <trai...@ellwanger.tv>

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[Brad Beam]

From: tvor...@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvor...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tom Wolper

>Root Sports had 4 channels: Northwest, Pittsburgh, Rocky Mountain and Southwest. It had rights to MLB teams in Colorado, Pittsburgh and Seattle, the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins, NBA’s Utah Jazz and MLS teams in Portland and Seattle. It was owned by DirecTV, which was bought up by AT&T. So now the branding has changed with no expected changes in programming or personnel.

Root Sports Southwest is the former CSN Houston, and thus has coverage of the Rockets and Astros.

 

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