Country | United States British Hong Kong |
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Broadcast area | Worldwide |
Headquarters | Englewood, Colorado |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Ownership | |
Owner | Bill Daniels/Tele-Communications, Inc. (1985–1994) Liberty Media (1994–1996) |
Sister channels | SportsChannel |
History | |
Launched | October 19, 1985 (Southern California; as Prime Ticket) November 15, 1988 (Colorado; as Prime Sports Network) 1989 (launch of Prime Sports brand) |
Closed | October 31, 1996 |
Replaced by | Fox Sports Networks STAR Sports (pan-Asia) |
Prime Sports (originally known as the Prime Sports Network (PSN), and also known as Prime Network or simply Prime) is the collective name for a former group of regional sports networks in the United States that were owned by Liberty Media, operating from November 1988 to October 31, 1996. While Liberty owned many of these networks, some of Prime's member networks were owned by other companies, and carried programming distributed for the group through affiliation agreements. As a result, Prime-affiliated networks had the right to select Prime Network programs to broadcast.
Each of the networks primarily carried regional broadcasts of sporting events from various professional, collegiate and high school sports teams (with broadcasts typically exclusive to each individual network, although some were shown on multiple Prime networks within a particular team's designated market area), along with regional and national sports discussion, documentary and analysis programs.
In 1996, Liberty announced a partnership with News Corporation, under which it would affiliate the Prime Sports channels with its Fox Sports Networks.