4SD
| 4SD | |
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| Launched | August 12, 1996 |
| Owned by | Cox Television |
| Picture format |
1080i (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area |
San Diego Imperial County Coachella Valley Yuma County |
| Headquarters | San Diego, California |
| Website | 4sd |
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Availability
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| Cable | |
| Cox Communications (San Diego) | 4 (SD) 1004 (HD) |
| Time Warner Cable (San Diego) | 4 (SD/HD) |
| Time Warner Cable (Desert Cities) |
27 (SD/HD) |
| Time Warner Cable (Yuma/El Centro) |
19 (SD/HD) |
| Cox Communications (Las Vegas) |
96 (SD) 1096 (HD) (San Diego Padres baseball and UNLV Rebels basketball broadcasts only) |
4SD, commonly referred to as Channel 4 San Diego (and also known as Channel 4 Padres or COX 4, and originally known as KCOX) is an American cable television channel serving San Diego, California that is owned by Cox Television.
More or less, it originally operated as a regional sports network for San Diego County, with a mixed format resembling that of Denver-based regional sports network Altitude Sports and Entertainment; but with the loss of the network's television rights to many professional and collegiate sports teams in recent years, its programming has shifted more towards public interest programs as well as local programming, informercials and older television series that the channel had been carrying before losing the majority of its sports programming.
The channel was launched by Cox Communications as an outlet used as an experiment during the 1996 Republican Convention, as well as to provide round-the-clock coverage for the Super Bowl festivities at Qualcomm Stadium in 1998 and 2003.
During the October 2007 wildfires that affected San Diego, 4SD carried ABC programs, including the network's news and primetime shows, in lieu of the market's ABC affiliate KGTV (channel 10) due to that station's breaking news coverage of the fires. Similarly on January 17, 2010, 4SD aired a college basketball game between the Connecticut Huskies and the Michigan Wolverines in place of CBS affiliate KFMB-TV (channel 8), which instead carried a local pregame show for the divisional playoff game between the New York Jets and the San Diego Chargers.
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