> On Apr 11, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > > Root Sports had 4 channels: Northwest, Pittsburgh, Rocky Mountain and > Southwest. It had rights to MLB teams in Colorado, Pittsburgh and Seattle, > the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins, NBA’s Utah Jazz and MLS teams in Portland and > Seattle. It was owned by DirecTV, which was bought up by AT&T. So now the > branding has changed with no expected changes in programming or personnel. > > http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/root-sports-regional-nets-now-part-of-att-sports-networks.html > > <http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/root-sports-regional-nets-now-part-of-att-sports-networks.html> “Root Sports” is still the name they’re using for the networks themselves — here’s a screenshot of a replay-to-live bumper that came from the Pirates-Tigers game that’s going on right now: http://i.imgur.com/JstAHdK.png
Within the corporate structure, the Root Sports networks had been under a DirecTV subsidiary called “DirecTV Sports Networks,” which is what changed its name to “AT&T Sports Networks” on Friday. So the main difference is that they’ve added “AT&T Sports Networks” on-air branding (in the form of the logo bug, not visible in my screenshot because it came via MLB.tv). -- Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> <http://www.ellwanger.tv> -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
