Everything about Csn Bay Area totally explained
Comcast SportsNet Bay Area (
CSN Bay Area for short) is the regional sports network that serves cable outlets throughout the
San Francisco Bay Area, as well as parts of
Northern California.
History
Originally launched as
SportsChannel Bay Area in April 1990, it merged with the
Pacific Sports Network in the July 1991 and became
SportsChannel Pacific. When the SportsChannel networks joined the
Fox Sports Net family, the channel was rebranded as
Fox Sports Bay Area in January 1998, and to
FSN Bay Area in 2004. With the network being 45% owned by
Comcast, 30% owned by the
San Francisco Giants and 25% owned by
Fox, the network was rebranded as a part of the
Comcast SportsNet family on
March 31,
2008.
Programming
CSN Bay Area televises the
MLB's
Oakland Athletics and
San Francisco Giants, the
NBA's
Golden State Warriors, the
NHL's
San Jose Sharks,
MLS's
San Jose Earthquakes, the
AFL's
San Jose SaberCats and the
NLL's
San Jose Stealth. The channel also broadcasts college sports, mainly involving the
Stanford Cardinal and the
California Golden Bears as well as sports involving the
Pacific-10,
Western Athletic,
Mountain West and
West Coast Conferences.
Until
2004, the network also broadcast games involving the
NBA's
Sacramento Kings and the
WNBA's
Sacramento Monarchs. Following the expiration of their contracts with the then-FSN Bay Area, the owners of the Kings and Monarchs went on to create CSN Bay Area's sister station,
CSN West.
Every Thursday night, CSN Bay Area airs an out-of-market National Hockey League game, usually either from
CSN Philadelphia or
CSN Mid-Atlantic.
Additional channels
CSN Bay Area also operates three additional channels for their programming.
CSN Plus and
CSN Plus2 are overflow channels utilized for scheduling conflicts when more than one team broadcast by the station is playing at the same time.
CSN HD is the
high definition feed of the network. Like the CSN+ channels, this channel is only utilized for select HD broadcasts, and shows no other programming. A select number of Giants, Athletics, Warriors, Sharks and SaberCats games are broadcast in HD.
Personalities
- Mindi Bach, Athletics pre-game host
- Jim Barnett, Warriors color analyst
- Troy Dayak, Earthquakes color analyst
- Ray Fosse, Athletics color analyst
- Bob Fitzgerald, Warriors and SaberCats play-by-play announcer
- Randy Hahn, Sharks play-by-play announcer
- Duane Kuiper, Giants play-by-play announcer
- Glen Kuiper, Warriors and Athletics play-by-play announcer
- Mike Krukow, Giants color analyst
- Greg Papa, Giants pre-game and post-game host
- Drew Remenda, Sharks color analyst
- Bip Roberts, Giants studio analyst
- FP Santangelo, Giants and Athletics game analyst
- John Shrader, Earthquakes play-by-play announcer
- Matt Steinmetz, Warriors game analyst
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