Oregon Sports Properties is a division of

Learfield LEARFIELD, formerly Learfield IMG College, is a large collegiate sports marketing company, representing more than 200 of the nation's top collegiate properties including the NCAA and its 89 championships, NCAA Football, leading conferences, and ...

which handles the sports broadcasting, accommodation, and billboard rights for the teams of the

University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institution is well known for its strong ties to the sports apparel and marketing firm Nike, Inc, and its co-founder, billion ...

's athletic programs and its venues. Until 2012, it was known as the Oregon Sports Network (abbreviated to OSN) and also handled the school's television rights. It launched in 1987 to handle the team's radio rights, with

KUGN KUGN (590 AM) is a commercial radio station, owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasting a news/talk format. Licensed to the city of Eugene, Oregon, it serves the Eugene- Springfield media market. KUGN partners with local CBS television affiliate ...

in Eugene the school's longtime flagship radio station since 1959, outside the period between 1987 and 1995 where KPNW served as the flagship with OSN producing broadcasts. Later, its television coverage aired on

NBC Sports Northwest NBC Sports Northwest (originally Comcast SportsNet Northwest) was an American regional sports network owned by the NBC Sports Group unit of NBCUniversal, as an affiliate of NBC Sports Regional Networks. The network broadcast regional coverage of ...

, with additional coverage carried on KLSR and KEVU. OSN contracted with

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to host and produce its coaches' shows for football and men's and women's basketball. The network's television operations were wound down completely by the start of the 2012–13 academic year, when the Pac-12 Networks were launched and OSN's sports rights were given over to the conference, and its remaining audio and web operations are now a part of Learfield.

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