Cox Sports Television
| Cox Sports Television | |
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| Launched | October 28, 2002 |
| Owned by | Cox Television |
| Picture format |
1080i (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Gulf South |
| Headquarters | Metairie, Louisiana |
| Website | www |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| Dish Network | 421 (REMOVED) |
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| Available on select cable systems in the Gulf South and South-Central U.S. | Consult your local cable provider for channel availability |
Cox Sports Television (CST) is an American regional sports cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Cox Television. The channel, which serves the Gulf South region of the United States, features a mix of professional, collegiate and high school sporting events. Cox Sports Television is headquartered in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, Louisiana.
Launched on October 28, 2002, the creation of the network played a key role in the relocation of the New Orleans Hornets NBA franchise from Charlotte, North Carolina. The only regional sports network serving New Orleans area viewers at the time was Fox Sports Southwest, and its coverage of Louisiana sporting events was limited.
From 2005 to 2010, Charter Communications did not carry the network on its Louisiana systems, despite having a carriage deal in place at the channel's launch in 2002. Because of this, Hornets games were not available to people living outside of the New Orleans metropolitan area during this time. In 2008, Cox and Charter negotiated a proposal to allow three Hornets games to be carried on local origination channels operated by Charter in the lead-up to that year's NBA All-Star Game as a precursor to a deal, however the discussions ended without a contract.
On December 15, 2010, Cox announced that it had finally reached a deal with Charter to carry the network on its systems again starting in 2011, a move done with the belief that the Hornets would remain in New Orleans for the foreseeable future. Cox Sports Television's standard definition and high definition feeds were added to Charter's Louisiana systems on January 1, 2011.
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