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| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Toledo, Ohio |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Block Communications |
| History | |
| Launched | January 7, 2004 (2004-01-07) |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| WFND-LD | 19.1 |
BCSN is aregional sports network founded in 2003 (and first went on the air on January 7, 2004) to carry sports broadcasting, which had previously been aired on fellow cable-only stationWT05.
The station airsToledo Mud Hens games,BGSU ice hockey and other BGSU sports,University of Toledo sports,high school sports including the Northwest Hockey Conference,college basketball, and other sports games. The network also had broadcast rights to carry theCleveland Indians. Previously BCSN carried Toledo Storm hockey games from 2004 to 2007 and starting in 2009, the network began carrying every home game of theToledo Walleye ECHL hockey team.
On April 14, 2011, BCSN began broadcasting some of its sports games in1080ihigh definition. All Toledo Mud Hens and Toledo Walleye games are broadcast live in high definition. On August 23, 2012, BCSN began broadcasting its standard-definition channel in a16:9letterboxed format.
Several Toledo Rockets football games broadcast on BCSN since 2009 have also been broadcast onWXYZ-TV, Channel 7, inDetroit as lead-in to ABC's college football coverage. Starting in 2014, additional Rockets football games broadcast on BCSN will also be broadcast onWMYD due to that station becoming sister to WXYZ-TV.
On December 13, 2012, BCSN ended a media partnership withCBS-affiliateWTOL because of the level of service performed by the two stations.[1]
On January 7, 2013, BCSN launched BCSN 2.[2]
Beginning in fall 2013, BCSN began a media partnership withABC-affiliateWTVG, resulting in the largest television sports team in the Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan viewing area. The partnership also includes BCSN using the WTVG studios for some of its on-air sports shows.[3]
In 2016, BCSN 2 got regional rights forColumbus Crew SC soccer games because of the limited distribution ofSpectrum Sports Ohio in the Toledo market. That agreement ended after the 2018 season, and all regionally televised Crew games now can be seen in Toledo viaBally Sports Ohio andBally Sports Great Lakes.
In 2018, BCSN began airing its programming over-the-air from a low-power transmitter in Findlay, Ohio onWFND-LD Channel 19.
In 2023, BCSN partnered with theNorthern Lakes League to turn BCSN 2 into the NLL Network, which primary airs live games and replays of games from that conference. NLL Network continues to serve as an overflow channel, airing live Toledo Mud Hens games when other action is being featured on BCSN.
BCSN is also the Toledo affiliate ofInside Michigan Football/Basketball, which is also available in Toledo through the program's Detroit affiliate,Bally Sports Detroit, andBuckeye Football/Basketball Weekly.
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