Fox Sports Houston
| Fox Sports Houston | |
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Final Fox Sports Houston logo, used from September 1 to October 5, 2012.
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| Launched | April 2005 (as a sub-feed of FSN Southwest) January 12, 2009 (as a standalone feed) |
| Closed | October 5, 2012 |
| Network | Fox Sports Networks |
| Owned by |
Fox Entertainment Group (News Corporation) |
| Picture format |
720p (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Eastern New Mexico, and Arkansas |
| Headquarters | The Woodlands, Texas |
| Sister channel(s) |
Cable/satellite: Fox Sports Southwest Fox Sports Oklahoma Broadcast: KRIV/Houston KTXH/Houston |
Fox Sports Houston was an American regional sports network that was owned by Fox Cable Networks, a unit of the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of News Corporation, and operated as an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks. The channel, which operated out of facilities based in downtown Houston, Texas, originally began in April 2005 as a sub-feed of sister network Fox Sports Southwest and became a separate 24-hour channel on January 12, 2009.
Fox Sports Houston held the broadcast rights to most of the professional sports franchises based in Houston, carrying games from the Houston Astros (Major League Baseball), Houston Rockets (NBA) and the Houston Dynamo (Major League Soccer); it also carried coverage of collegiate events involving Conference USA members, the Houston Cougars and Rice Owls as well as high school sports events throughout the Houston area. After losing the broadcast rights to the Astros and Rockets to Root Sports Southwest, the network was re-absorbed into Fox Sports Southwest on October 5, 2012.
A separate FSN feed for Houston and the surrounding area launched in April 2005, just as the Astros and Rockets were working together to establish their own local sports network with the city's then-dominant cable television provider, Time Warner Cable. For the better part of two seasons (from 2003 to 2005), all Houston Rockets games that were not televised nationally on cable were only available on broadcast television, splitting games between independent station KNWS-TV (channel 55, now Azteca affiliate KYAZ) and WB affiliate KHWB (channel 39, now CW affiliate KIAH). Working out with the new deal with the Astros and Rockets, Fox Sports Networks decided to establish a completely separate feed for Houston and its surrounding outer television markets, however just operating evenings and on weekends, while Fox Sports Southwest continued to transmit in the region in other dayparts.
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