FSN Southwest
Encyclopedia
Fox Sports Southwest is a regional sports network
that operates in all or parts of Texas
, Louisiana
, Oklahoma
, New Mexico
, and Arkansas
. The network operates out of the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Irving
and also in Houston
, the operations center for all Fox Sports Net channels in the central part of the United States.
It is the cable home for the Dallas Mavericks
(NBA), Dallas Stars
(NHL), Texas Rangers
(MLB), FC Dallas
(MLS), San Antonio Spurs
(NBA), San Antonio Silver Stars
(WNBA), plus local coverage of the Southland
, Big 12, and Conference USA
athletic conferences. It also is home to UIL 5A State championship games for Football, Boys Basketball, and Baseball.
Fox Sports Southwest originally began as Home Sports Entertainment in 1983, serving as the cable television home of professional and collegiate sports team throughout Texas and surrounding states. In the mid 1990s, HSE became a part of the Prime Sports Networks
, thus becoming Prime Sports Southwest. In 1996, the network became Fox Sports (Net) Southwest, upon News Corporation
's purchase of the Prime Networks and its merger with the SportsChannel
networks.
This is mostly due to the defined broadcast territories set by the National Basketball Association
, in regards to the region's three NBA franchises—the Dallas Mavericks
, Oklahoma City Thunder
, and San Antonio Spurs
. Whenever there is a conflict (Such as: Mavs/Thunder, Mavs/Spurs, Thunder/Spurs, and sometimes Mavs/Spurs/Thunder), the games will be shown on their own subfeeds (Thunder on FS Oklahoma, Spurs or Mavs on FS Southwest). However, in certain circumstances, a limited number of Dallas Stars
games (Texas' only National Hockey League
team) on Fox Sports Southwest air beyond the Dallas-Fort Worth designated market area.
Also, the state of Texas and its surrounding outer markets can receive Texas Rangers
and Houston Astros
games without territorial restrictions, thus Houston-area viewers can receive Rangers games on a designated feed, while the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex viewers can watch the Astros also on an designated feed. Fox Sports Southwest produces Dallas Stars telecasts for its sister station KDFI
(Channel 27), and as of 2010, produces Texas Rangers telecasts for Fort Worth-based CBS-owned independent station, KTXA
(Channel 21). Each team's telecasts are syndicated throughout their respective broadcast territories.
High-Definition
. There are also several NCAA football and basketball games shown nationally on FSN that are available on Fox Sports Southwest HD.
games and Mavericks Live, the logo changes to FSMAVERICKS (with the FS in dark blue). During Stars
games and Stars Live, the logo is FSSTARS (with the FS shown in a gold color). For Rangers
games and Rangers Live, the logo is FSRANGERS; during the 2009 season, the FS was shown in dark blue (and was occasionally also shown in red whenever the Rangers were wearing their red jerseys and caps during home games), but in 2010 the color of FS was switched to red. For Spurs
games and Spurs Live, the logo reads FSSPURS with the FS in a silver color.
Regional sports network
In the United States of America and Canada, a regional sports network, or RSN, is a cable television station that presents sports programming to a local market. The most important programming on an RSN consists of live broadcasts of professional and college sporting events, as those games generate...
that operates in all or parts of Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
, Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
, Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
, New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
, and Arkansas
Arkansas
Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...
. The network operates out of the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Irving
Irving, Texas
Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city population was 216,290. Irving is within the Dallas–Plano–Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, designated...
and also in Houston
Houston, Texas
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
, the operations center for all Fox Sports Net channels in the central part of the United States.
It is the cable home for the Dallas Mavericks
Dallas Mavericks
The Dallas Mavericks are a professional basketball team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association , and the reigning NBA champions, having defeated the Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals.According to a 2011...
(NBA), Dallas Stars
Dallas Stars
The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The team was founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minnesota North Stars, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. The...
(NHL), Texas Rangers
Texas Rangers (baseball)
The Texas Rangers are a professional baseball team in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, based in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League, and are the reigning A.L. Western Division and A.L. Champions. Since , the Rangers have...
(MLB), FC Dallas
FC Dallas
FC Dallas is an American professional soccer club based in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, Texas which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States of America and Canada...
(MLS), San Antonio Spurs
San Antonio Spurs
The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They are part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
(NBA), San Antonio Silver Stars
San Antonio Silver Stars
The San Antonio Silver Stars are a professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah before the league's inaugural 1997 season began; the team moved to San Antonio...
(WNBA), plus local coverage of the Southland
Southland Conference
The Southland Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the south central United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it participates in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision...
, Big 12, and Conference USA
Conference USA
Conference USA, officially abbreviated C-USA, is a college athletic conference whose member institutions are located within the Southern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports...
athletic conferences. It also is home to UIL 5A State championship games for Football, Boys Basketball, and Baseball.
Fox Sports Southwest originally began as Home Sports Entertainment in 1983, serving as the cable television home of professional and collegiate sports team throughout Texas and surrounding states. In the mid 1990s, HSE became a part of the Prime Sports Networks
Prime Network
The Prime Network was a group of regional sports networks owned by Liberty Media that served several regionalized areas that was in operation between 1983 and late-1997. While Liberty owned many of these stations, some were affiliates and owned by other companies...
, thus becoming Prime Sports Southwest. In 1996, the network became Fox Sports (Net) Southwest, upon News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...
's purchase of the Prime Networks and its merger with the SportsChannel
SportsChannel America
SportsChannel America was a cable television network operated by Cablevision. It was the country's first regional sports network, and thus an important ancestor to many of the United States' regional sports outlets, especially Fox Sports Net and Comcast SportsNet. SportsChannel New York was the...
networks.
Coverage areas
Fox Sports Southwest is divided into three broadcasting zones, each representing the three of the largest television markets in its designated broadcast region:- Dallas-Fort Worth (including northern and central Texas and northern Louisiana)
- San Antonio (including AustinAustin, TexasAustin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
, El PasoEl PasoEl Paso, a city in the U.S. state of Texas, on the border with Mexico.El Paso may also refer to:-Geography:Colombia:* El Paso, CesarSpain:*El Paso, Santa Cruz de TenerifeUnited States:...
, southern and western Texas, plus parts of eastern New Mexico) - Oklahoma (all of Oklahoma, see Fox Sports OklahomaFox Sports OklahomaFox Sports Oklahoma is a regional sports network that airs coverage of sports teams in Oklahoma. It launched on October 29, 2008 as a spinoff of Fox Sports Southwest, with the first game of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder...
).
This is mostly due to the defined broadcast territories set by the National Basketball Association
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
, in regards to the region's three NBA franchises—the Dallas Mavericks
Dallas Mavericks
The Dallas Mavericks are a professional basketball team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association , and the reigning NBA champions, having defeated the Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals.According to a 2011...
, Oklahoma City Thunder
Oklahoma City Thunder
The Oklahoma City Thunder are a professional basketball franchise based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ; their home court is at Chesapeake Energy Arena....
, and San Antonio Spurs
San Antonio Spurs
The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They are part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
. Whenever there is a conflict (Such as: Mavs/Thunder, Mavs/Spurs, Thunder/Spurs, and sometimes Mavs/Spurs/Thunder), the games will be shown on their own subfeeds (Thunder on FS Oklahoma, Spurs or Mavs on FS Southwest). However, in certain circumstances, a limited number of Dallas Stars
Dallas Stars
The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The team was founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minnesota North Stars, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. The...
games (Texas' only National Hockey League
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
team) on Fox Sports Southwest air beyond the Dallas-Fort Worth designated market area.
Also, the state of Texas and its surrounding outer markets can receive Texas Rangers
Texas Rangers (baseball)
The Texas Rangers are a professional baseball team in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, based in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League, and are the reigning A.L. Western Division and A.L. Champions. Since , the Rangers have...
and Houston Astros
Houston Astros
The Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball team located in Houston, Texas. They are a member of the National League Central division. The Astros are expected to join the American League West division in 2013. Since , they have played their home games at Minute Maid Park, known as Enron Field...
games without territorial restrictions, thus Houston-area viewers can receive Rangers games on a designated feed, while the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex viewers can watch the Astros also on an designated feed. Fox Sports Southwest produces Dallas Stars telecasts for its sister station KDFI
KDFI
KDFI-TV, virtual channel 27, is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated station serving the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The station is licensed to Dallas and owned by Fox Television Stations, a division of the News Corporation, and is a sister station to Fox network outlet KDFW . Its transmitter is located in Cedar...
(Channel 27), and as of 2010, produces Texas Rangers telecasts for Fort Worth-based CBS-owned independent station, KTXA
KTXA
KTXA, virtual channel 21 , is an independent television station based in Fort Worth, Texas, and serving the Dallas/Fort Worth designated market area. With its transmitter in Cedar Hill, KTXA is owned by CBS Corporation and is the sister station of CBS outlet KTVT .KTXA was originally an...
(Channel 21). Each team's telecasts are syndicated throughout their respective broadcast territories.
Fox Sports Southwest HD
Although Fox Sports Southwest does not have a 24-hour HD simulcast, various Mavericks, Rangers, Spurs and Stars games are shown in 720p720p
720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan...
High-Definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
. There are also several NCAA football and basketball games shown nationally on FSN that are available on Fox Sports Southwest HD.
Fox Sports Southwest Plus
Fox Sports Southwest Plus, also branded as "FOX Sports Southwest +" or FS SOUTHWEST +", is a channel used by Fox Sports Southwest to simultaneously show multiple events on two channels in the same market.Current branding
A small logo bug on the top right corner of the screen is displayed during programming, reading FSSOUTHWEST. This is shown during most shows as well as nationally-broadcast games (with the FS colored in light blue). This changes during local games, though. During MavericksDallas Mavericks
The Dallas Mavericks are a professional basketball team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association , and the reigning NBA champions, having defeated the Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals.According to a 2011...
games and Mavericks Live, the logo changes to FSMAVERICKS (with the FS in dark blue). During Stars
Dallas Stars
The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The team was founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minnesota North Stars, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. The...
games and Stars Live, the logo is FSSTARS (with the FS shown in a gold color). For Rangers
Texas Rangers (baseball)
The Texas Rangers are a professional baseball team in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, based in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League, and are the reigning A.L. Western Division and A.L. Champions. Since , the Rangers have...
games and Rangers Live, the logo is FSRANGERS; during the 2009 season, the FS was shown in dark blue (and was occasionally also shown in red whenever the Rangers were wearing their red jerseys and caps during home games), but in 2010 the color of FS was switched to red. For Spurs
San Antonio Spurs
The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They are part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
games and Spurs Live, the logo reads FSSPURS with the FS in a silver color.