FSN New York
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| FSN New York | |
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| Type | Regional sports network |
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| Country | United States |
| Availability | New York, Northern New Jersey, Southwestern Connecticut, Northeastern Pennsylvania; Nationally via Satellite |
| Owner | Cablevision |
| Launch date | 1977 (as SportsChannel New York) |
| Past names | SportsChannel New York (1977-1997) Fox Sports New York (1997-1999) Fox Sports Net New York (1999-2004) |
| Website | FOXSports.com |
FSN New York (often abbreviated as FSNY, or more appropriately, FSNNY), previously known as Fox Sports Net New York (or Fox Sports New York) and SportsChannel New York, is a regional sports network in the New York City metropolitan area, whose reach expands to cover the entire state of New York, Northern New Jersey, Southwestern Connecticut, and Northeastern Pennsylvania. It is an affiliate of Fox Sports Net and owned and operated by Cablevision, as a sister network to Cablevision's main RSN, MSG, under the banner of MSG Media. FSN New York is home of the NHL's New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils, and MLL's Long Island Lizards.[citation needed] FSN New York also serves an overflow purpose when multiple local teams that would be shown on MSG play at the same time, much like MSG does for FSN New York. MSG's teams which may also appear as FSN New York telecast are the NHL's New York Rangers and MLS's Red Bull New York. MSG is also the television home of the NBA's New York Knicks, WNBA's New York Liberty, and NHL's Buffalo Sabres, although these teams tend to be exclusively on MSG. Although MSG has nine broadcasting zones, FSN New York has eight broadcasting zones because the remaining zone's eligible MSG Media team is the Buffalo Sabres, which is exclusive to MSG.
[edit] FSN New York/MSG Broadcasting Zones
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- 1: Tri-State New York Area: All Knicks, Rangers, Islanders, Devils, Liberty, and Red Bulls games on FSN New York and MSG.
- 2: Upstate New York Area (north of Sullivan, Ulster, and Dutchess Counties): All Knicks, Liberty, Red Bulls, and Sabres (via MSG telecast on FSN New York or MSG) games, up to 50 games each for Rangers, Islanders, and Devils games on FSN New York or MSG.
- 3: Western New York Area (within 50 miles of Buffalo, including Rochester): All Knicks (via MSG telecast on FSN New York or MSG), Liberty, Red Bulls, and Sabres games on FSN New York and MSG.
- 4: Northeastern Pennsylvania Area (excluding Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerene, Susquehanna, Wayne, and Wyoming Counties): All Liberty and Red Bulls games on FSN New York or MSG.
- 5: Central Connecticut Area (north and east of Fairfield County) and Northeastern Pennsylvania Area (Wilkes-Barre and Scranton Areas): All Knicks, Liberty, and Red Bulls games, up to 50 games each for Rangers (sometimes all, depending on NHL's outer-market rules), Islanders and Devils games on FSN New York or MSG.
- 6: Eastern Connecticut Area (New London and Windham Counties): All Red Bulls games, up to 50 games each for Rangers (sometimes all, depending on NHL's outer-market rules), Islanders, and Devils games on FSN New York or MSG.
- 7: Southwestern New York Area (within 100 miles of Cleveland): All Red Bulls and Sabres games on FSN New York or MSG.
- 8: Northeastern Pennsylvania Area (Bradford, Lackawanna (excluding Scranton area), Luzerene (excluding Wilkes-Barre area), Susquehanna, Wayne, and Wyoming Counties): All Knicks, Liberty, and Red Bulls games on FSN New York or MSG.
- 9: Northwestern Pennsylvania Area (areas in the Buffalo Sabres market): All Sabres games on MSG.
[edit] FSN New York 2 and MSG2
Like MSG's MSG2, FSN New York also has FSN New York 2. These networks will air only when three or four local games air on FSN New York and MSG combined. The Islanders or Devils game airs on FSN New York 2 and the Knicks or Rangers on MSG2. The Knicks only air on MSG2 when they are on the road and start at least one hour later than Rangers.
On cable systems, these networks air mostly on the TV Guide Channel as the "over-the-air" telecast. On satellite systems, these networks will air on alternate channels assigned by the satellite television provider. When FSN New York 2 and MSG2 air both at the same time, one of them will air on the alternate channel, mostly, for cable, on C-SPAN2.
Verizon FiOS customers require a subscription to the sports package to watch FSN New York 2 and MSG2. [1] Previously, they had carried them on the FiOS Premier package, the Verizon's expanded basic package. However, Verizon FiOS customers with FiOS Premier package still can watch FSN New York and MSG.
From the 1998-1999 NBA and NHL seasons to the 2004-2005 seasons, instead of these alternate channels, Cablevision placed games on their MSG Metro Channels, which were available in a limited number of homes, causing certain customers to miss the games. In high cases of overflow, partially caused by the New Jersey Nets being broadcast on FSN New York at the time, games were also placed on WLNY. During this era, when two of the teams that the MSG Networks covered played against each other, only one broadcast would usually be produced using one of the team's announcing teams. This was either due to MSG's TV contracts or a desire to show a different sporting event at the same time. Beginning in the 2005-2006 NBA and NHL seasons, when Metro was discontinued and Cablevision lost Nets telecasts to YES Network, FSN New York and MSG resumed airing FSN New York 2 and MSG2 and now produce two broadcasts when two of their teams are playing against each other.
[edit] Arena Football League Coverage
FSN New York airs some New York Dragons games as the AFL on FSN package. Because the AFL on FSN is a local-only telecast, only Dragons games are eligible to air on FSN New York. Other Arena Football League teams' games are blacked out on FSN New York. Some Dragons games air on SNY when not airing on FSN, ESPN, ESPN2, or ABC.
[edit] Collegiate Programming
FSN New York also airs college sports games and local weekly college basketball reports for Hofstra University and Villanova University (MSG carries weekly college football or basketball reports for Rutgers University and St. John's University). However, games involving teams in the Tri-State New York Area are generally blacked out outside this area. Time Warner Cable, among others, often acquires rights to these games in order to put them on its own channels in certain markets. Nationally broadcast FSN games airing in zone 1 of FSN New York will air in all FSN New York zones, unless a local team is playing at the same time. In such a case, the college game will be shown on a delayed telecast, on MSG if there is no other live game scheduled, or not at all.
[edit] New York Rangers and Red Bull New York on FSN New York
New York Rangers and Red Bull New York games are mainly aired on MSG, but they air on FSN New York when New York Knicks (for Rangers) or New York Liberty (for Red Bulls) air on MSG and there are no other local teams that air mainly on FSN New York air on FSN New York at the same time. The Knicks and Liberty have higher ratings for MSG than the Rangers and Red Bulls, respectively, thus they rarely air on FSN New York. No Knicks games are scheduled to air on FSN New York during 2007-2008 NBA season (most likely because the Knicks are Madison Square Garden and MSG's highest rated property)[2], and no Liberty games were aired on FSN New York during 2007 WNBA season (most likely because the team is owned by Cablevision while the Red Bulls is not).
The same goes for MSG, that either the New York Islanders or New Jersey Devils, teams that mainly air on FSN New York, air on MSG when these teams play at the same time and when no other local teams that mainly air on MSG air on MSG at the same time.
Since the start of 2006-2007 NBA and NHL seasons, there are strategy changes so that the Rangers would sometimes air on FSN New York instead of MSG2, bumping the Islanders and Devils to FSN New York 2 and MSG2.[3]
[edit] Differences between FSN New York and other FSN stations
Until the beginning of 2007-2008 NHL Season, FSN New York was the only FSN station that did not animate the scorebar and scoreboard animations. However, FSN New York still hides the scorebar when the camera is on zoom-in or goal area view or during the shootout, use its own style, depending on the team telecast, for scorebar's popups for penalty, power play, and scoring informations, game statistics, and, for Rangers and Islanders telecasts, commercials within FSN New York and MSG and about the special day of MSG Media teams, and does not animate sounds for the scorebar and scoreboard animations and, for some telecasts, scoring animation and popup animation below the team initials other than power play and remaining power play time. On the Red Bulls, Lizards, and the college game telecasts, FSN New York does not use the official FSN scorebar. Also, FSN New York still uses the old "scores around the nation" board shown eventually at the bottom of the screen and does not use a bug to identify itself on most programming.
[edit] FSN New York in Upstate New York
[edit] Hoosick area
The Hoosick area was formerly the only market on Time Warner Cable of Albany (within New York) which did not carry FSN New York. The Hoosick area was also formerly provided by Adelphia's system in Bennington, Vermont (now part of Comcast). It formerly carried FSN New England (now CSN New England), but because of FSN's rule, it was replaced by FSN New York.
[edit] Central New York
Time Warner Cable of Central New York has carried FSN New York on the standard cable package and also on the digital standard package.
[edit] Southern Tier New York
The following markets on Time Warner Cable of Southern Tier New York currently do not carry FSN New York:
[edit] Rochester area
The following markets (as well as markets formerly provided by Adelphia) on Time Warner Cable of Rochester are the only markets that carry FSN New York:
[edit] Western New York
Time Warner Cable of Western New York currently does not carry FSN New York.
[edit] Personalities
- Steve Cangialosi: Devils sideline reporter and pre- and post-game show and intermission report host; Red Bulls sideline reporter and pre- and post-game show and halftime report host; fill-in Devils and Red Bulls play-by-play announcer
- Mike Crispino: Fill-in Rangers play-by-play announcer; fill-in Islanders sideline reporter and pre- and post-game show and intermission host
- Ken Daneyko: Devils pre- and post-game show and intermission report analyst
- JP Dellacamera: Red Bulls play-by-play announcer
- Mike Emrick: Devils play-by-play announcer
- Stan Fischler: MSG Hockey Night Live studio analyst, Devils home game sideline reporter
- John Giannone: Rangers sideline reporter; occasional MSG Hockey Night Live studio analyst
- Butch Goring: Islanders pre- and post-game show and intermission report analyst
- Billy Jaffe: Islanders color announcer
- Deb Kaufman: Islanders sideline reporter and pre- and post-game show and intermission report host
- Sal LoCasio: Lizards color analyst
- Dave Maloney: Fill-in Rangers color analyst
- Jiggs McDonald: Fill-in Islanders play-by-play announcer
- Shep Messing: Red Bulls color analyst
- Joe Micheletti: Rangers color analyst
- Jean Potvin: Fill-in Islanders pre- and post-game show and intermission report analyst
- Chico Resch: Devils color announcer
- Carl Reuter: Lizards play-by-play announcer
- Howie Rose: Islanders play-by-play announcer
- Sam Rosen: Rangers play-by-play announcer
- Al Trautwig: MSG Hockey Night Live host
[edit] FSN New York HD
FSN New York also has a high-definition feed named FSN New York HD. However, FSN New York 2 does not have an HD feed, thus FSN New York 2's games are not broadcast in high definition. All of the home games for New York Rangers, New York Islanders, New Jersey Devils, and Red Bull New York and select road games for these teams airing on FSN New York are HD-Available (Lizards games are currently not HD-Available). It is carried as a 24/7 channel on Cablevision (except Cablevision of Litchfield) and Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey. Comcast does not carry a 24/7 dedicated channel, although it does normally carry games in high definition on an HD Sports channels in many markets. FSN New York HD was added to DirecTV on December 5 2007.[4] FSN New York HD is currently not available on other providers which carry FSN New York.
[edit] References
- ^ New York Area Verizon FiOS TV Channel Listing effective July 2007
- ^ New York Knicks 2007-2008 Telecast Schedule from MSG (it is officially 2007-2008 telecast schedule, but there are some typing errors)
- ^ New York Rangers 2007-2008 Telecast Schedule from MSG (note the dates Dec 12, Jan 5, and Apr 4; the dates that have a conflict with Islanders and/or Devils)
- ^ DirecTV's HD Channel Lineup
[edit] See also
- Fox Sports Net
- MSG Network
- Fox Broadcasting Company
- Fox Soccer Channel
- Fox College Sports
- SportsNet New York
- YES Network
[edit] External links
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