SportsTime Ohio ( STO ) (sometimes also called broadcast as Fox SportsTime Ohio ) is an American regional sports network 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 network of partners to Fox Sports Ohio, broadcasts coverage across the state of professional sporting events, colleges and colleges throughout northern Ohio, including the Cleveland area.
Ohio SportsTime is available from most cable providers in Northeast Ohio and select providers in other parts of Ohio (including Columbus), Northwest Pennsylvania, and the Western New York extreme. It is also available nationally on satellite via DirecTV, as well as outside Ohio on AT & amp; T U-verse.
Video SportsTime Ohio
History
Ohio SportsTime was launched on March 12, 2006; founded by the Cleveland Indians Larry Dolan family, became the second regional sports network in the Cleveland area, after Fox Sports Ohio (which was launched in February 1989 as SportsChannel Ohio). Ohio SportsTime assumes the right of regional cable television for Major League Baseball matches involving Indians from Fox Sports Ohio, who has served as an exclusive local broadcaster from India from 2002 to 2005, when it was majority owned by Cablevision Systems Corporation (New Company based in York owned by Dolan's brother Charles) to trade assets with Fox Sports Net's parent company, News Corporation.
Starting as a rival with Gannett-owned WKYC providing studio operations for cable channels, the two networks will soon become a sister company, when on December 3, 2012, the Indians announced that they will sell SportsTime Ohio to Fox Sports Ohio parent Fox Entertainment Group. The deal was finalized four weeks later on December 28. Fox retained the existing staff at SportsTime Ohio despite being under common ownership of Fox Sports Ohio, with Katie Witham being a travel journalist with the team.
In April 2013, at the start of the Major League Baseball 2013 season, SportsTime Ohio began to incorporate Fox Sports branding, imagery, and programs used on other Fox Sports regional networks. Also on June 29, 2015, the SportsTime Ohio surgery leaser, the company's WKYC parent, The Gannett Company is split in two, with one side that specializes in print and others who specialize in home broadcast and video media. WKYC is maintained by the last company, named TEGNA.
On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced plans to acquire 22 regional Fox Network networks from 21st Century Fox, including SportsTime Ohio, sister network Fox Sports Ohio, and 50% of Fox shares in the Cincinnati sub-feed network. Once the deal is approved, the network will change the brand under ESPN.
Maps SportsTime Ohio
Programming
Professional sports
SportsTime Ohio holds exclusive regional cable television rights to Indian Major League Baseball Cleveland and is a Cleveland Browns cable outlet. The channel produces Indians Live, a pre-match and post-game show that broadcasts television broadcasts on Indian channels or any national game that airs on other networks. The network also shares the Cleveland Monsters hockey range with the Fox Sports Ohio sister network.
Genuine programming
- Current Beer Guided by Jensen Lewis and Gabriella Kruez, a trivia sports game event recorded in various Ohio bars, where customers are asked trivia questions about sports teams local and number to win cash prizes.
Current on-air staff
- Jock Callander
- Doug Dieken
- Jim Donovan
- Bruce Drennan
- Tony Grossi
- Jensen Lewis
- Rick Manning
- Matt Underwood
- Matt Wilhelm
References
External links
- Official website
- List of branches and affiliate channels of SportsTime Ohio (from WKYC partner STO)
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