Fox Sports Bay Area
| NBC Sports Bay Area | |
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| Launched | July 1, 1989 |
| Network | NBC Sports Regional Networks |
| Owned by | NBC Sports Bay Area Holdings (NBC Sports Group and San Francisco Giants) |
| 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, Northern California, Central California, Southern Oregon, Nevada, Nationwide (via satellite) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco |
| Formerly called | Pacific Sports Network (1989–1991) SportsChannel Bay Area (1990–1991) SportsChannel Pacific (1991–1998) Fox Sports Bay Area (1998–2000) Fox Sports Net Bay Area (2000–2004) FSN Bay Area (2004–2008) Comcast SportsNet Bay Area (2008–2017) |
| Sister channel(s) |
Cable/satellite: NBC Sports California Broadcast: KNTV & KSTS/San Jose |
| Website | www.csnbayarea.com |
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Availability
(some events may air on overflow feed NBC Sports Bay Area Plus due to event conflicts) |
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| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | 696 NBC Sports Bay Area (SD/HD), 697 NBC Sports Bay Area Plus (SD), 697-1 NBC Sports Regional Plus (HD) |
| Dish Network | 419 (HD/SD) |
| Xfinity | 40 NBC Sports Bay Area (SD), 720 NBC Sports Bay Area (HD), 85 NBC Sports Bay Area Plus (SD), 780 NBC Sports Bay Area Plus (HD) |
| Cable | |
| Available on select U.S. cable systems in designated broadcast area | Consult your local cable provider or program listings source for channel availability |
NBC Sports Bay Area (sometimes abbreviated as NBCS Bay Area) is an American regional sports network that is owned as a joint venture between NBCUniversal and the San Francisco Giants, and operates as an affiliate of NBC Sports Group. Headquartered in San Francisco, the channel broadcasts regional coverage of professional sports events throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. NBCS Bay Area's sister channel is NBC Sports California. The president of the network is Ted Griggs.
The network was formed as a merger of two separate regional sports networks: the Pacific Sports Network, which launched in July 1, 1989 as an affiliate of the Prime Network and SportsChannel Bay Area, an owned-and-operated outlet of SportsChannel that launched in April 1990 under the ownership of Rainbow Media, the broadcasting subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation. The two networks merged in July 1991 into SportsChannel Pacific.
On June 30, 1997, News Corporation and Liberty Media – which formed Fox Sports Net the year prior through News Corporation's partial acquisition of the Liberty-owned Prime Network group of regional sports networks – purchased a 40% interest in Cablevision's sports properties including the SportsChannel networks (as well as Madison Square Garden and its NBA and NHL team tenants, the New York Knicks and New York Rangers); the three companies formed the venture National Sports Partners to run the owned-and-operated regional networks. The channel was rebranded as Fox Sports Bay Area in January 1998, at which time most of the SportsChannel networks (with the exception of SportsChannel Florida, which did not join the network until 2000) underwent a near-groupwide rebranding as part of their integration into the Fox Sports Net family.
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