SportsChannel Los Angeles
| SportsChannel Los Angeles | |
|---|---|
| Launched | June 30, 1989 |
| Closed | December 31, 1992 |
| Network | SportsChannel |
| Owned by |
Cablevision (50%) NBC (50%) |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Southern California |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
| Replaced | Z Channel |
SportsChannel Los Angeles is a defunct American regional sports network that was owned as a joint venture between the Rainbow Media subsidiary of Cablevision and NBC, and operated as an affiliate of SportsChannel. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the channel broadcast regional coverage of sports events throughout the Southern California, with a focus on Los Angeles-area professional sports teams.
SportsChannel Los Angeles launched on June 30, 1989; it served as the successor to Z Channel, an avant-garde movie service focusing on a variety of high-profile and lesser-known but critically acclaimed films. Like its predecessor, SportsChannel Los Angeles operated as a premium cable service, requiring cable subscribers to pay an extra monthly fee to receive the network, a distribution method that many regional sports networks had utilized at the time of its launch; however unlike its predecessor, it did not broadcast 24 hours a day at first, offering programming from 2:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. on weekdays and from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. on weekends.
Officials with Rainbow Media thought that it would give SportsChannel Los Angeles a financial advantage compared to Prime Ticket, which had the regional cable television rights to the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Kings but, in direct contrast, operated as a basic cable service. In the spring of 1991, the network acquired the regional television rights to the Los Angeles Clippers, effective with the 1991-92 season, assuming the local rights to the NBA team's game telecasts from Prime Ticket after one year.
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