Fox Sports Ohio

FS Ohio
Launched	1989 (as SportsChannel Ohio)
Network	Fox Sports Net
Owned by	News Corp
Country	United States
Broadcast area	Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Northwest Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Southwest New York
Formerly called	SportsChannel Ohio (1989-1998); Fox Sports Ohio (1998-2000); Fox Sports Net Ohio (2000-2004); FSN Ohio (2004-2008)
Website	FSN Ohio on MSN
Availability
Satellite
DirecTV	660 (SD) / 660-1 (HD) (Cleveland feed); 661 (SD) / 661-1 (HD) (Cincinnati feed)
Dish Network	425 (SD) / 5425 (HD) (Cleveland feed); 427 (SD) / 5427 (HD) (Cincinnati feed)
Cable
U-verse	734 (SD) / 1734 (HD) (Cleveland feed); 732 (SD) / 1732 (HD) (Cincinnati feed)
Available on select cable systems	Check local listings for channels

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Fox Sports Ohio (stylized as FSOHIO), formerly FSN Ohio and SportsChannel Ohio, is a cable channel in Ohio (with the exception of the Toledoarea, where Fox Sports Detroit is carried along with FS Ohio, as well as some central eastern counties where FSN Pittsburgh is carried), parts of Indiana, Kentucky, Northwest Pennsylvania, the border communities of West Virginia (FS Pittsburgh owning the rights to most of the state), and extreme Southwest New York.

Professional team partnerships with FS Ohio include the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets, the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers, MLB's Cincinnati Reds, the AHL's Lake Erie Monsters, the AFL's Cleveland Gladiators. In college sports, FS Ohio carries a full schedule of regular season Mid-American Conference men's and women's basketball games, as well as the majority of the MAC Men's Basketball Tournament (with the exception of the Championship Game which airs nationally on ESPN2 as part of the MAC's national broadcast contract). FS Ohio also carries a select number of Xavier University, and University of Cincinnati basketball games.

Prior to the Cleveland Indians starting SportsTime Ohio in the 2006 season, Cleveland Indians games were on FSN Ohio.

There are actually two feeds of FS Ohio. One is based out of Cleveland, the other out of Cincinnati, and both cater to the sports scenes in their respective markets. During the 2007 and 2008 Ohio High School Athletic Association football seasons, both FS Ohio channels had a game of the week for their area, airing on Thursday nights.

With two FS Ohio channels, this can cause conflict for Columbus, which is between both Cleveland and Cincinnati. When two teams are playing at the same time (usual combinations being Columbus Blue Jackets and Cleveland Cavaliers, Blue Jackets and Cincinnati Reds, and Reds and Cavaliers), the Central Ohio-area cable systems usually assign one game to the actual FS Ohio channel, then assign the second game to an alternate channel on its cable lineup. (Time Warner Cable, for instance, usually has Blue Jackets games on the actual FS Ohio channel, found on channel 33. The Cavaliers are usually on channel 33, but in times of conflict with the Blue Jackets, they move to the customer service channel, found on channel 24.)

[edit] Professional Sports Teams on FS Ohio

Cleveland Cavaliers (1990-present)
Cleveland Gladiators (2008-present)
Cleveland Indians (1990-October 2, 2005)
Cincinnati Reds (1991-present)
Columbus Blue Jackets (2000-present)
Columbus Destroyers (2004-present)
Lake Erie Monsters (2007-present)

[edit] Personalities

[edit] Current

Jeff Brantley: Cincinnati Reds Color Commentary
Thom Brennaman: Cincinnati Reds Play-by-Play
Austin Carr: Cavaliers Color Analyst
Ray Crawford: Musketeers Live
Jim Day: Blue Jackets Live, Reds Live
Danny Gare: Columbus Blue Jackets Color Commentary
Tommy Gelehrter Bearcat Sports Weekly
George Grande: Cincinnati Reds Play-by-Play
Brad Johansen: Xavier Musketeers basketball Play-by-Play; OHSAA football play-by-play (Cincinnati feed)
Jason Hillman: Lake Erie Monsters Color Commentary
Jeff Hogan: Blue Jackets Live
Fred McLeod: Cleveland Cavaliers Play-by-Play
John Michael: Lake Erie Monsters Play-by-Play
Jeff Phelps: Cavaliers Live
Jeff Piecoro: Reds Live
Kenny Roda: Lake Erie Monsters Locker Room Reporter
Michael Reghi: Mid-American Conference football and basketball Play-by-Play
Jeff Rimer: Columbus Blue Jackets Play-by-Play
Campy Russell: Cavaliers Live
Chris Welsh: Cincinnati Reds Color Commentary
Steve Wolf: Xavier Musketeers basketball Color Commentary