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| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Nationwide (through regional affiliates) |
| Affiliates | NBC Sports Radio |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | NBCUniversal (Comcast) |
| Parent | NBC Sports Group |
| Sister channels | NBC Universo Golf Channel |
| History | |
| Launched | October 1, 1997 |
| Former names | Comcast SportsNet (CSN) (1997–2017) |
| Links | |
| Website | www.nbcsports.com |
| Availability | |
| Streaming media | |
| NBC Sports | Internet Protocol television (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) |
| DirecTV Stream | Internet Protocol television (Except NBC Sports Philadelphia) |
| FuboTV | Internet Protocol television |
| YouTube TV | Internet Protocol television |
| Hulu Live | Internet Protocol television |
NBC Sports Regional Networks is the collective name for a group of regional sports networks in the United States that are primarily owned and operated by the NBCUniversal division of the cable television company Comcast. The networks were originally established as Comcast SportsNet (CSN), a unit of Comcast's cable television business, beginning with a network in Philadelphia which launched in 1997. Their operations were aligned with the national NBC Sports division following the 2011 acquisition of NBCUniversal by Comcast. NBC Sports Regional Networks' business and master control operations are based in Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
The group operates four regional networks; Comcast also has a partial ownership interest in SportsNet New York, which is co-owned with Charter Communications and the New York Mets. Each of the networks carries regional broadcasts of sporting events from various professional, collegiate and high school sports teams (with broadcasts typically exclusive to each individual network, although some are shown on more than one network within a particular team's designated market area), along with regional and national sports discussion, documentary and analysis programs.
After their realignment with NBC Sports, the networks initially continued to operate primarily under the Comcast SportsNet name. Although Comcast originally considered dropping its name from the networks in favor of NBC Sports following the merger, they still operated under the CSN brand for at least six more years. The group's two networks in California were then re-branded under the NBC Sports brand in April 2017, while the remaining networks were renamed on October 2, 2017.
Since 2021, three of the seven NBC Sports branded networks (Northwest, Washington and Chicago) were either closed or sold as part of the transformation of the regional media rights market.