Midwest Sports Channel
| Fox Sports North | |
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| Launched | 1986 |
| Network | Fox Sports Networks |
| Owned by |
Fox Entertainment Group (21st Century Fox) |
| Picture format |
720p (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area |
Minnesota western Wisconsin Iowa North Dakota South Dakota |
| Headquarters | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Formerly called | WCCO II (1986–1989) Midwest Sports Channel (1989–2001) Fox Sports Net North (2001–2004) FSN North (2004–2008) |
| Sister channel(s) |
Fox Sports Wisconsin KMSP-TV Minneapolis-St. Paul WFTC Minneapolis-St. Paul |
| Website | www.foxsports.com/north |
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Availability
(some events may air on overflow feed Fox Sports North Plus due to event conflicts) |
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| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | 668 (SD/HD) |
| Dish Network | 436 (SD/HD) |
| Cable | |
| Available on most cable systems in designated broadcast area | Consult your local cable provider or program listings source for channel availability |
| Streaming media | |
| Fox Sports Go |
www.foxsportsgo.com/ (U.S. cable internet subscribers only; requires login from participating providers to stream content; some events may not be available due to league rights restrictions) |
| Sling TV | Internet Protocol television |
Fox Sports North is an American regional sports network that is owned by Fox Cable Networks, a unit of the Fox Entertainment Group division of 21st Century Fox, and operates as an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks. The channel broadcasts coverage of sporting events involving teams located in the Upper Midwest region, with a focus on professional and collegiate sports teams based in Minnesota.
The network maintains production studios and offices located in downtown Minneapolis, which are shared with production and office operations of Fox Sports Wisconsin, which formerly served as a subfeed of Fox Sports North until it was spun off into a separate channel in 2006.
Fox Sports North maintains two separate feeds: a "metro" feed (which is broadcast to the Twin Cities and surrounding areas) and the "outstate" feed (which is seen elsewhere throughout Minnesota, as well as North and South Dakota, Iowa and extreme western Wisconsin).
Fox Sports North is available on cable providers throughout Minnesota, western Wisconsin, northern Iowa, Upper Michigan along the Wisconsin border and the eastern parts of North Dakota and South Dakota; the "outstate" feed of the channel is also available on satellite via DirecTV and Dish Network.
The channel originated in 1986 as WCCO II, a local cable channel owned by Midwest Radio and Television, and created as a project by CBS affiliate WCCO-TV (channel 4, now an owned-and-operated station of the network) that was originally intended to complement to the over-the-air WCCO with its own slate of local and general entertainment programming. Over the course of the three years that followed, though, it gradually focused more on sports programming. It formally became a regional sports network in 1989, when it was relaunched as the Midwest Sports Channel.
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