Comcast SportsNet California
| NBC Sports California | |
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| Launched | October 2004 |
| Network | NBC Sports Regional Networks |
| Owned by | NBC Sports Group |
| Picture format |
1080i (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
| Slogan | Authentic Bay Area Sports |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Spanish (via SAP) |
| Broadcast area |
San Francisco Bay Area Sacramento Northern California Orange County, California & San Diego (via NBCSports) Oregon Western Nevada National (via satellite) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco |
| Formerly called | Comcast SportsNet West (2004–2008) Comcast SportsNet California (2008–2017) |
| Sister channel(s) |
Cable/satellite: NBC Sports Bay Area Broadcast: KNTV/San Jose KSTS/San Francisco |
| Website | www |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | 698 NBC Sports California (SD/HD) 699 NBC Sports California Plus (SD) 699-1 NBC Sports California Plus (HD) |
| Dish Network | 438 (SD/HD) |
| Cable | |
| Available on select other cable systems in designated broadcast area | Consult your local cable provider or program listings source for channel availability |
| IPTV | |
| AT&T U-verse | 1767 NBC Sports California (HD) 1768 NBC Sports California Plus (HD) 767 NBC Sports California (SD) 768 NBC Sports California Plus (SD) |
| Streaming media | |
| PlayStation Vue | PlayStation Vue Core and Elite packages for the San Francisco Bay Area also include CSN California Plus, NBC Sports Bay Area and CSN Bay Area Plus. |
NBC Sports California (sometimes abbreviated as NBCS California) is an American regional sports network that is owned by the NBC Sports Group unit of NBCUniversal, and operates as an affiliate of NBC Sports Regional Networks. The channel broadcasts regional coverage of professional and college sports events throughout Northern California, as well as original sports-related news, discussion and entertainment programming.
NBC Sports California is available on cable and fiber optic television providers throughout northern California, and portions of Oregon and western Nevada. The network maintains main studios and offices headquartered with sister network NBC Sports Bay Area in San Jose, California.
In the summer of 2003, Comcast acquired the regional television rights to broadcast regular season and early-round playoff games from the Sacramento Kings. Previously, the team's game broadcasts were only available either via pay-per-view sports packages and on an alternate feed of then Cablevision-owned SportsChannel Bay Area. As a result, Comcast created a new regional sports network to broadcast the team's games; the network launched as Comcast SportsNet West in October 2004, coinciding with the start of the Kings' regular season.
Although the network originally focused on the Northern California region, it began expanding its coverage to serve as a complement to Comcast SportsNet Bay Area. This began with the network's rebranding to Comcast SportsNet California in September 2008; it subsequently became the official broadcaster of the Oakland Athletics (which previously broadcast its games on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, in addition to the San Francisco Giants) for the 2009 Major League Baseball season, broadcasting an 145 regular season games that year (a substantial increase from only 37 telecasts in 2008). The San Jose Sharks followed the A's from CSN Bay Area for the 2009–10 NHL season, seeing a similar increase in game broadcasts with 75 games being shown overall (50 of which were televised in high definition). With the relaunch, Comcast SportsNet Bay Area and California merged editorial coverage on their respective regional websites. Many cable providers in the San Francisco Bay Area that previously carried CSN California via digital cable have since moved to the network to basic cable tiers.
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