SportsChannel Philadelphia
| SportsChannel Philadelphia | |
|---|---|
| Launched | January 1, 1990 |
| Closed | September 30, 1997 |
| Network | SportsChannel |
| Owned by |
Cablevision (50%) NBC (50%) |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area |
Philadelphia metropolitan area Eastern Pennsylvania |
| Headquarters | Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania |
| Replaced by | Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia |
| Sister channel(s) | PRISM |
SportsChannel Philadelphia is a defunct American regional sports network that was owned as a joint venture between Rainbow Sports, a unit of the Rainbow Media subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation, and NBC (which both owned 50%), and operated as an affiliate of SportsChannel.
Operating as a sister network of the premium service PRISM and headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, the channel provided regional coverage of sports events involving professional sports teams based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, and college and high school sports events throughout the Delaware Valley region.
Plans to develop a Philadelphia-based SportsChannel network date back to 1986, when Rainbow Media announced plans to launch a regional sports network that would serve as a companion to the primarily movie-based premium channel PRISM, which would share the regional television rights to games from three of Philadelphia's major professional sports teams, the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball, the Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA and the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL (the rights to the teams' road games were split at the time between independent stations WTAF-TV (channel 29, now Fox owned-and-operated station WTXF-TV), WPHL-TV (channel 17, now a MyNetworkTV affiliate) and WGBS-TV (channel 57, now CW owned-and-operated station WPSG), while PRISM carried home games involving all three franchises). Originally slated to launch in January 1987, Rainbow later chose to delay the launch of the channel.
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