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Fox Sports Tennessee
Fox Sports Southeast
Fox Sports Carolinas
History
LaunchedOctober 31, 2008 (2008-10-31)
ReplacedFox Sport South (within designated market)
ClosedMarch 31, 2021 (2021-03-31)
Links
Websitewww.foxsports.com/tennessee

Fox Sports Tennessee (FSTN) was an American

Entertainment Studios, and operated as an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks. The channel broadcast regional coverage of professional and collegiate sports events in the state of Tennessee, namely the Memphis Grizzlies and Nashville Predators
.

Fox Sports Tennessee was available on

satellite via DirecTV and Dish Network
.

The network closed down on March 31, 2021. Its content was merged into the schedules of the newly named Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast.

History

Fox Sports Tennessee logo, used from 2008 to 2012.

Fox Sports Tennessee launched on

Fox Sports South into three regional networks: alongside the main Fox Sports South channel (originating from Atlanta, Georgia) and Fox Sports Carolinas, the latter of which launch on the same date as Fox Sports Tennessee.[1] In July 2013, News Corporation spun off the Fox Sports Networks and most of its other U.S. entertainment properties into 21st Century Fox
.

On December 14, 2017, as part of a merger between both companies,

Entertainment Studios (through their joint venture, Diamond Holdings) bought Fox Sports Networks from The Walt Disney Company for $10.6 billion. The deal closed on August 22, 2019.[2][3]

In 2020, Diamond Sports formed a partnership with Bally's Corporation was formed to rebrand the networks as "Bally Sports". On January 27, 2021, Bally's and Sinclair issued a joint press release unveiling the new logos for the rebrand of the networks that will occur at a still undetermined date later in 2021. It also was announced that Fox Sports Tennessee would be shut down at that time with programming being merged into the new Bally Sports South (previously Fox Sports South) and Bally Sports Southeast (previously Fox Sports Southeast).[4] The final event broadcast by the network was a 3-2 Predators win in overtime against the Dallas Stars on March 30, 2021.

Programming

Fox Sports Tennessee held the regional cable television rights to the

collegiate sports events from the Southeastern Conference
.

Other services

Fox Sports Tennessee HD

Fox Sports Tennessee HD was a

test pattern
being shown at other times) until July 2009, when it was converted into a 24-hour simulcast feed.

Announcers

Memphis Grizzlies

Nashville Predators

  • Willy Daunic - play-by-play announcer
  • Chris Mason - analyst
  • Kara Hammer - rinkside reporter
  • Terry Crisp - Predators LIVE analyst
  • Lyndsay Rowley - Predators LIVE host/reporter
  • Jerome Jurenovich and Kelsey Wingert – Preds Studio Update Host

References

  1. Reed Business Information. November 1, 2008. Archived from the original
    on May 9, 2012.
  2. ^ "Sinclair completes acquisition of regional sports networks from Disney". Bloomberg. 22 August 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  3. ^ Littleton, Cynthia (3 May 2019). "Sinclair Clinches Disney-Regional Sports Networks Deal, Byron Allen Joins as Partner". Variety. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  4. ^ "Sinclair Broadcast Group And Bally's Corporation Unveil Official Bally Sports Logo And Corresponding Regional Monikers". www.prnewswire.com. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc ; Bally's Corporation. Jan 27, 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  5. ^ "FOX Sports Tennessee, SportSouth to Televise 123 Reds Games during 2011 MLB Season". Fox Sports Tennessee. March 8, 2011.
  6. ^ "2011 Fox Sports Tennessee and SportSouth St. Louis Cardinals Telecast Schedule" (PDF). St. Louis Cardinals.

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