FanDuel Sports Network Florida

Overview

type	Regional sports network
country	United States
area	Florida Georgia South Alabama Nationwide (via satellite)
network	FanDuel Sports Network
headquarters	Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.‡R1R‡
language	English Spanish (via SAP)
picture format	720p (HDTV) 480i (SDTV)
owner	Main Street Sports Group
sister channels	FanDuel Sports Network Sun
launch date	December 29, 1987
former names	SportsChannel Florida (1987–2000) Fox Sports Net Florida (2000–2004) FSN Florida (2004–2008) Fox Sports Florida (2008–2021) Bally Sports Florida (2021–2024)
online serv 1	FanDuel Sports Network app
online chan 1	https://www.fanduelsportsnetwork.com/mvpd/login (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)
online serv 2	DirecTV Stream
online chan 2	Internet Protocol television
online serv 3	FuboTV
online chan 3	Internet Protocol television
availability note	(Some events may air on overflow feed FanDuel Sports Network Florida Plus due to event conflicts)
website	https://www.fanduelsportsnetwork.com/

FanDuel Sports Network Florida is an American regional sports network owned by Main Street Sports Group (formerly Diamond Sports Group) and operated as an affiliate of FanDuel Sports Network. The channel broadcasts local sports coverage in the state of Florida, with a focus on professional sports teams based in Miami, Tampa and Orlando.

FanDuel Sports Network Florida maintains production facilities and offices located in Fort Lauderdale,[1] alongside sister network FanDuel Sports Network Sun. The channel is available on cable television providers throughout Florida, and in parts of southern Alabama and Georgia; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.

History

FanDuel Sports Network Florida was launched on December 29, 1987, as SportsChannel Florida. It was originally owned by Rainbow Media (a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation), and was the fourth regional network of

Carriage conflicts

Bright House

For its first 21 years of existence, the channel was not available to most cable subscribers in the Orlando area, as Bright House Networks, the largest cable system in central Florida, refused to carry the channel. The conflict stemmed from the system's previous existence as Cablevision (a brand unaffiliated with the Bethpage, New York-based cable provider of the same name), and continued through its acquisition by Time Warner Cable and, later, Bright House. This issue did not change following Fox Sports' acquisition of Sun Sports, now known as Bally Sports Sun, which Bright House already carried on its Orlando area lineup, and continued even after the Orlando Magic moved half of the televised games in its schedule from MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station WRBW (channel 65) to Fox Sports Florida in 2007.

Fox Sports Net's sister subsidiary Fox Television Stations had earlier purchased WRBW (then a UPN affiliate) in Orlando in 2001, followed by its purchase of Fox affiliate WOFL (channel 35) in 2002. On paper, this gave News Corporation – the corporate parent of the Fox Sports Networks at the time – the right to require Bright House to carry Fox Sports Florida as part of its retransmission consent compensation agreement for carriage of WOFL and WRBW, but Fox chose not to exercise that right. Bright House would agree to carry Fox Sports Florida on its Orlando system, with the channel being added on digital cable channel 50 on January 1, 2009. News Corporation and Bright House reached a new retransmission agreement on January 1, 2010, preventing both Fox Sports Florida and Sun Sports from being dropped from the provider's central Florida system. Fox would want Bright House to return Fox Sports Florida and Sun Sports to the provider's Orlando service area on February 12, 2010.

Fox Sports Florida was also not available on Comcast systems in the Sarasota and Tallahassee markets until 2006, and remains unavailable on Comcast's Lake County systems. Orlando Magic games aired on the channel are blacked out by Comcast in the Jacksonville market.

FanDuel Sports Network Florida

History

Bankruptcy

Programming

Notable on-air staff

Current

Former

Carriage conflicts

Bright House

External links

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