Fox Sports Carolinas

Fox Sports Carolinas

Country	United States
Network	Fox Sports Networks
Headquarters	Charlotte, North Carolina
Programming
Language(s)	English
Ownership
Owner	Fox Entertainment Group (21st Century Fox)

Fox Sports Carolinas is an American regional sports network that is operated as an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks. The channel is owned by Fox Cable Networks, a unit of the Fox Entertainment Group division of 21st Century Fox. It is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It serves four million people in North and South Carolina. It was created in October 2008 when Fox Sports South was split into three feeds, the other two being for Atlanta and Tennessee.

Fox Sports Carolinas holds the regional cable television rights to the Charlotte Hornets (NBA) and Carolina Hurricanes (NHL). The network also covers the Carolina Panthers of the NFL and the ACC and SEC college athletics conferences. It also airs Fox Sports South's main feed of Atlanta Braves (MLB) games throughout South Carolina, as well as in portions of the Charlotte and Piedmont Triad markets. It also airs Fox Sports Ohio's broadcasts of Cincinnati Reds (MLB) games for viewers in and around Asheville, Charlotte and Winston-Salem.

Availability

FS Carolinas is available on most cable providers in North Carolina and South Carolina, as well as nationwide on DirecTV and Dish Network.

Fox Sports Carolinas HD

Most Charlotte Hornets and Carolina Hurricanes games and national Fox Sports Net games and events on Fox Sports Carolinas are available in 720p high definition. Prior to July 2009, the HD version of the channel was only on the air during games and displayed colored test pattern bars the rest of the time. Since July 2009, Fox Sports Carolinas HD has transitioned to full-time channel, although live sports games as well as their late night replays are the only programs in HD.

Current branding

During regular programming and national sporting events, the Fox Sports logo is shown with a dark blue, rounded arrow shaped drop-down containing the word "SOUTH". The bottom of the drop-down contains a small arrow, colored light blue. During Hornets basketball games and Hornets Live, the text in the drop-down changes to "HORNETS" (so that the bug reads Fox Sports Hornets), with the arrow at the bottom of the drop-down shown in blue. As for Hurricanes hockey games and Hurricanes Live, the text in the drop-down changes to "CANES", with the arrow at the bottom of the drop-down shown in red.

Commentators

Carolina Hurricanes

• John Forslund – play-by-play
• Tripp Tracy – analyst

Chantel McCabe- on ice reporter

Charlotte Hornets

• Steve Martin – play-by-play commentator
• Dell Curry – analyst
• Stephanie Ready – sideline reporter

External links

• Official website