SportsTime Ohio

SportsTime Ohio
Launched March 12, 2006 (2006-03-12)
Network Fox Sports Networks
Owned by Fox Entertainment Group
(21st Century Fox)
Picture format 720p (HDTV)
480i (SDTV)
Country United States
Language English
Broadcast area Cleveland/Northern Ohio
Central Ohio
National (via satellite)
Headquarters Cleveland, Ohio
Sister channel(s) Fox Sports Ohio
Website SportsTimeOhio.com
Availability
Satellite
DirecTV 662 (SD/HD)
Dish Network 421-21 (SD)
412-21 (HD)
Cable
Time Warner Cable (Cleveland) 36 / 308 (SD)
1308 (HD)
WOW! (Cleveland) 72 (SD)
221 (HD)
Time Warner Cable (Columbus) 34 / 308 (SD)
1308 (HD)
WOW! (Columbus) 57 (SD)
221 (HD)
Available on most other Ohio cable systems Consult your local cable provider or program listings source for channel availability
IPTV
AT&T U-verse 735 (SD)
1735 (HD)
Streaming media
Fox Sports Go www.foxsportsgo.com/
(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)
Sling TV Internet Protocol television

SportsTime Ohio (STO) (also sometimes referred to on-air as Fox SportsTime Ohio) is an American regional sports network that is owned by Fox Cable Networks, a unit of the Fox Entertainment Group division of 21st Century Fox, and operates as an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks. The channel, which is a sister network to Fox Sports Ohio, broadcasts statewide coverage of professional, collegiate and high school sports events throughout northern Ohio, including the Cleveland area.

SportsTime Ohio is available on Time Warner Cable and a number of other cable providers in Northeast Ohio and other portions of state. It is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV, as well as outside Ohio on AT&T U-verse.

History

SportsTime Ohio was launched on March 12, 2006; it was founded by the family of Cleveland Indians owner Larry Dolan, becoming the second regional sports network in the Cleveland area, after Fox Sports Ohio (which launched in February 1989 as SportsChannel Ohio). SportsTime Ohio assumed the regional cable television rights to Major League Baseball games involving the Indians from Fox Sports Ohio, which had served as the exclusive local broadcaster of the Indians from 2002 to 2005, when it was majority-owned by Cablevision Systems Corporation (a New York-based company owned by Dolan's brother, Charles) until an asset trade with then-Fox Sports Net parent News Corporation.

Starting off as rivals, the two networks would soon become corporate sisters, when on December 3, 2012, the Indians announced that it would sell SportsTime Ohio to Fox Sports Ohio parent Fox Entertainment Group. The deal was finalized four weeks later on December 28.[1] Fox retained SportsTime Ohio's existing staff despite coming under common ownership with Fox Sports Ohio, with Katie Witham becoming a traveling reporter with the team.

In April 2013, at the beginning of the 2013 Major League Baseball season, SportsTime Ohio began incorporating the Fox Sports branding, imagery and programming used on the other Fox Sports regional networks.[2]

Programming

Professional sports

Bruce Drennan hosting his daily talk show at Progressive Field.

SportsTime Ohio holds the exclusive regional cable television rights to the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball and the Ohio Machine of Major League Lacrosse. The channel produces Indians Live, a pre-game and post-game show bookending the channel's Indians telecasts. The network also shares coverage of Lake Erie Monsters hockey and Cleveland Gladiators arena football with sister network Fox Sports Ohio.[3]

High school sports

Since its launch, SportsTime Ohio has broadcast high school football and basketball games. In 2007, STO announced it had acquired the television rights to some Ohio High School Athletic Association championship events, including football playoff games, all seven division football championship games, boys and girls playoff basketball, and volleyball, soccer, hockey, and baseball championships. Time Warner Cable provides coverage of the OHSAA championships on its systems in the Dayton and Cincinnati markets, as SportsTime Ohio is not carried on those systems.[4]

Original programming

Current[5]

Current on-air staff

Cleveland Indians
Lake Erie Monsters
Cleveland Gladiators
High school football
Drennan Live

References

External links

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