Sinclair to buy Fox Regional Sports

True, another thing as well with the root Sports networks was their production values and lack of original programming compared to Fox Sports just my two cents here...
Where I live its NESN and NBC Sports Boston, so I never had a Root Sports. My understanding though is that Root basically continued with the FSN programming, just with the Root Name.

Back when our NBC Sports was FOX Sports New England, I found it to be subpar to that of NESN.
 
My understanding though is that Root basically continued with the FSN programming, just with the Root Name.

Somehow I doubt Sinclair will do that, unfortunately. My RSN (FSM) has a lot of good talent and original programming related to the Cardinals, and I'm afraid that will be going away.
 
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Where I live its NESN and NBC Sports Boston, so I never had a Root Sports. My understanding though is that Root basically continued with the FSN programming, just with the Root Name.

Back when our NBC Sports was FOX Sports New England, I found it to be subpar to that of NESN.
They did continue with select Fox sports programming but as far as original programming besides live games, pre/post game shows, and team insider shows it was non-existent. It's as if the owners didn't want to invest money into the networks just the bare basics.
 
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Sinclair would most likely be rename the FSN RSNs to Stadium as they already own the Stadium OTA sports network, it's most likely they would want the RSN to gain more clout for their local stations in many markets and to get ROH Wrestling a home in many markets where Sinclair doesn't own a station at all.
 
Somehow I doubt Sinclair will do that, unfortunately. My RSN (FSM) has a lot of good talent and original programming related to the Cardinals, and I'm afraid that will be going away.
That was Liberty's decision to buy those specific regional FSN's, turn them into Root, then just use national filler programming during non-game hours. In this case, FSN is going away. So, I assume that unless Sinclair is thinking of brokering a deal, they'll need to keep each RSN somewhat as it is.

I still remember when I had the Multi-Sports pack and I was confused when FOX changed the packages to say "FSDetroit" then "FSRed Wings", but Liberty kept the old FSN in the blue box logo on their channels. I was thrown off for a while.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if sinclair pulled a root sports and partnered up with a national network for filler programming and only producing live games and their respected shows...
 
I noticed that FSM is no longer running the Fox Sports logo in the top right corner of the screen. Don't know if that means anything or not.

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And, unfortunately, Western Washington still has that Root name on its RSN. We don't have NBC Sports Northwest on dish - yet.
 
Gee, a regional sports network, wouldn't that be nice. Oh, wait, I have one (here in Pennsylvania). It's called the Rocky Mountain Sports Network and carries the Rockies and Colorado Buffaloes, among others. Only one problem, every, and I mean every, sporting event of any kind is blacked out. The only things that aren't are the talk shows and infomercials. :mad:
 
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