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I have no idea where to start for sources (though it looks like the one cited source provided barely any of the info here), but this article is incredibly inaccurate. SportsChannel America was a national network that was related to, but not the same as SportsChannel. SportsChannel became Fox Sports (group of local affiliates with mix of network programming, local sports, and syndicated content like pro wrestling). SportsChannel America was a national cable channel with the same programming everywhere that I believe turned into NewSport before going out of business. Also, ECW never aired on SportsChannel America. It aired on local Sportschannel stations in syndication and the Prime Network (Prime Network also aired WCW Prime, a recap show with some exclusive matches). The UWF (Herb Abrams), IWA (Rob Russen), and LPWA promotions were the wrestling shows that aired regularly on SportsChannel America (Mario Savoldi's ICW also aired on the network but not regularly). --David Bixenspan (talk) 14:39, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If this is true then I propose renaming this page SportsChannel as it mostly deals with the group of regional networks. However, I don't believe that NewSport came directly out of SportsChannel America, from what I've seen it was a joint venture with NBC and was a seperate channel. In the 90s I know I had both SportsChannel NY and NewSport on my cable system, but I don't remember having a SportsChannel America (was the channel for areas that didn't have a SportsChannel affiliate?). --Rusf10 (talk) 21:26, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sportschannel America was available in NY in addition to SportsChannel NY. Not 100% sure about NewSport but it replaced SCA on Cablevision when SCA folded. --David Bixenspan (talk) 21:27, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Although, it's hard for me to remember, I know that NewSport was on a timeshare channel on my cable system along with The Weather Channel and MSG2/SCNY2. And I had cablevision, you'd think they would give full-time coverage to their own channel. Although I could be wrong, I can't remember ever having SCA. That's why I think they're seperate channels, also NewSport was a joint-venture with NBC and Liberty. I would guess that SCA folded when they lost the NHL contract, so that would be only a year before NewSport was launched. So do you think we should rename this page just "SportsChannel" and add a section about SCA or create a seperate page for SCA? --Rusf10 (talk) 04:19, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Stumbled back onto this and went digging...

LA Times article that details NewSport taking over SportsChannel America: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-02-07/sports/9402070091_1_local-cable-systems-sportschannel-chicago-sportschannel-america

The Wikipedia article for NHL on SportsChannel America describes the SportsChannel America/SportsChannel [Market Name] relationship properly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL_on_SportsChannel_America

This Sports Illustrated article makes it clear any cable provider could try to pick up SCA, but, the last paragraph implies the same incorrect conclusion that the Wikipedia Sportschannel America article draws, presumably because SCA was only on in markets with a local SC affiliate: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1126563/index.htm

--Bix (talk) 19:49, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for researching this, I will update the article--Rusf10 (talk) 07:15, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

To Concerned Reader: Thanks for volunteering your time.---3rd-rate sports writer. Wait, shouldn't it be fourth-rate sports writer? I mean, the Slate story is about hockey, after all....

To Concerned Journalist: Perhaps mistaking 1-letter (making a common misspelling) in a 3rd-rate sports writer's name is less important than a sportswriter who can't even muster up the know-how to find a legitimate source for his story to link to. Then again, perhaps being smarmy is better than being smart. Thank you. ---A Concerned Reader With Little Else To Do Than Point Out Flaws In Sports Writers' Pseudonymously Published Smarmy Rebuttals.

This edit is to correct the previous editor who mistakenly refers to magazine writers "especially Chris Scott." The author of the Slate story in question is Chris Shott. Not Scott. As the previous editor noted, anyone may edit this site. But please: Don't misspell people's name. That's an automatic 'F' in journalism school. Thank you. ---A Concerned Journalist In Search Of Careful Readers

This edit is to show Slate magazine writers ((especially Chris Scott, who wrote the article linking here)) and other news/opinion sites run as journalistic endeavors that linking to Wikipedia for accuracy/more explanation on story is idiotic and untruthful. Anyone may edit this site; anyone may put false truths into a linked story. Expecting a site like this, with no accuracy guaranteed, to back up your story as a "truth" isto show you are not a journalist, but a high school gossip. It shows the untrustable quality of both your work and your publication. Please leave up until the Slate story by Chris Scott, dated 06/08/2006 and entitled "Ice Guys Finish Last" is archived off the main site. This is not about punishing Wikipedia, which has uses as seeing what popular "fact" is. This is about showing bad journalists what not to do. Thank you. ---A Concerned Reader in search of truthful journalists. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.42.244.62 (talk • contribs) 16:31, June 9, 2006.

Fox Sports Net Rebranding[edit]

I have removed the reference to SportsChannel New York being the first to be rebranded as a Fox Sports Net affiliate. I was sure it was not, and the CSN New England page lists the rebranding there as having occurred in 1997, when it was then a Fox Sports Net affiliate. In fact, to be more accurate, SCNY was the next to last to be rebranded. Only FSN Florida was rebranded later than the current MSG+. 70.21.223.11 (talk) 12:50, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Did some research using google news archive and as far as I can tell, all of the networks expect Florida were rebranded during the last week of January 1998. I believe SCNY was the first on January 27, SCNE rebranded the following day. Here's a link to an article about it [1]--Rusf10 (talk) 03:14, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I thought it was the next to last to receive the branding. I seemed to remember all of the other channels having been switched over. Either way, it is virtually a moot point, as they were all rebranded around the same time. - 70.111.60.97 (talk) 02:50, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.ocregister.com/2017/12/14/how-the-disney-fox-deal-affects-local-sports-coverage/

Update some of the former SportsChannel affiliates that later went to Fox Sports local are going to be a part of Disney in 2017 is this going to be included here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.169.130.165 (talk) 18:02, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Length and quality about right for a Start. TFCforever (talk)

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