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| Country | United States |
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| Broadcast area | Gulf South |
| Headquarters | Metairie,Louisiana |
| Programming | |
| Language | English |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Cox Communications |
| History | |
| Launched | October 28, 2002 (2002-10-28) |
| Closed | October 31, 2021 (2021-10-31) |
| Replaced by | YurView Louisiana, YurView Florida |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
Cox Sports Television (a.k.a.CST; sometimes referred to asCox Sports TV) was an Americanregional sportscable andsatellitetelevision channel owned byCox Communications. The channel, which serves theGulf South region of the United States, features a mix of professional, collegiate and high school sporting events. Cox Sports Television is headquartered in theNew Orleans suburb ofMetairie,Louisiana. The network shut down on October 31, 2021, with much of its sports content moving to Cox'sYurView channels in the region.[1]
Launched on October 28, 2002, the creation of the network played a key role in the relocation of theNew Orleans HornetsNBA franchise fromCharlotte,North Carolina. The only regional sports network servingNew Orleans area viewers at the time wasFox Sports Southwest, and its coverage ofLouisiana sporting events was limited.
From 2005 to 2010, Charter Communications did not carry the network on its Louisiana systems, despite having a carriage deal in place at the channel's launch in 2002. Because of this, Hornets games were not available to people living outside of the New Orleans metropolitan area during this time. In 2008, Cox and Charter negotiated a proposal to allow three Hornets games to be carried on local origination channels operated by Charter in the lead-up to that year'sNBA All-Star Game as a precursor to a deal, however the discussions ended without a contract.
On December 15, 2010, Cox announced that it had finally reached a deal with Charter to carry the network on its systems again starting in 2011, a move done with the belief that the Hornets would remain in New Orleans for the foreseeable future.[2] Cox Sports Television'sstandard definition andhigh definition feeds were added to Charter's Louisiana systems on January 1, 2011.[3]
The channel was an initial affiliate of theAmerican Sports Network with its first broadcast on August 30, 2014.[4] Cox Sports New Orleans agreed to carry some games from the first season of theFall Experimental Football League in October and November 2014.[5]
Cox shut down Cox Sports Television as a separate channel on October 31, 2021, with key content being moved to theYurView channels in its service footprint, such asYurView Louisiana, YurView Florida, and YurView Arkansas.[1]
Cox Sports Television was the exclusive local television broadcaster of theNew Orleans Hornets NBA games from2002 to2012.[6] The channel held broadcast rights to theNew Orleans ZephyrsPacific Coast League franchise, and also broadcastpreseason games from theNational Football League'sNew Orleans Saints.
It also carried local college sporting events fromLSU Tigers (men's and women's basketball, baseball, softball, and rebroadcasts of football games) on atape-delayed basis, as well as coverage of theLouisiana Tech Bulldogs and Lady Techsters,Southern Jaguars and Lady Jaguars,New Orleans Privateers,Southeastern Louisiana Lions,Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns and other regional college teams. The channel also broadcast high school sports championship events sanctioned by theLouisiana High School Athletics Association (LHSAA) includingfootball,boys' and girls' basketball, volleyball, baseball and softball, as well as 14 regular season football games.
The channel also broadcast college football and basketball games viaAmerican Sports Network[4] andESPN Plus featuring out-of-market teams,CFL football games, coaches' shows for the collegiate teams that Cox Sports Television maintains broadcast rights, outdoors programming, simulcasts of news programming fromESPNews, and assorted other events. The channel's flagship program was the hour-long sports highlight programCST Tonight; Cox Sports Television also produced and broadcast the New Orleans Saints' coaches' show.
As of June 2017, Cox Sports Television was available in high-definition on Cox cable systems nationwide. It is also available on selectSuddenlink Communications andCharter Communications systems in the region. A few smaller cable companies carried the channel as well.[7] The channel did not have carriage deals with eitherAT&T U-verse,Dish Network, orDirecTV; its games were also available onESPN3.
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