Cox Sports Television ( a.k.a. CST; sometimes referred to as Cox Sports TV) was an American regional sports cable and

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owned by

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. The channel, which serves the

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region of the United States, features a mix of professional, collegiate and high school sporting events. Cox Sports Television is headquartered in the

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suburb of Metairie,

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. The network shut down on October 31, 2021, with much of its sports content moving to Cox's

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channels in the region.

History

Launched on October 28, 2002, the creation of the network played a key role in the relocation of the

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NBA franchise from

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. The only regional sports network serving

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area viewers at the time was

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, and its coverage of

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's NBA 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. Cox Sports Television's standard definition and high definition feeds were added to Charter's Louisiana systems on January 1, 2011. The channel was an initial affiliate of the American Sports Network with its first broadcast on August 30, 2014. Cox Sports New Orleans agreed to carry some games from the first season of the

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in October and November 2014. Cox shut down Cox Sports Television as a separate channel on October 31, 2021, with key content being moved to the

channels in its service footprint, such as YurView Louisiana, YurView Florida, and YurView Arkansas.

Programming

Cox Sports Television was the exclusive local television broadcaster of the

NBA games from

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. The channel held broadcast rights to the

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franchise, and also broadcasts preseason games from the

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. It also carried local college sporting events from

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(men's and women's basketball, baseball, softball, and rebroadcasts of football games) on a tape-delayed basis, as well as coverage of the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs and Lady Techsters, Southern Jaguars and Lady Jaguars, New Orleans Privateers,

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and other regional college teams. The channel also broadcasts high school sports championship events sanctioned by the Louisiana High School Athletics Association (LHSAA) including

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, 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 via American Sports Network and ESPN Plus featuring out-of-market teams,

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football games, coaches' shows for the collegiate teams that Cox Sports Television maintains broadcast rights, outdoors programming, simulcasts of news programming from

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, and assorted other events. The channel's flagship program is the hour-long sports highlight program '' CST Tonight''; Cox Sports Television also produced and broadcast the New Orleans Saints' coaches' show.

Availability

As of June 2017, Cox Sports Television was available in high-definition on Cox cable systems nationwide. It is also available on select Suddenlink Communications and

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systems in the region. A few smaller cable companies carried the channel as well. The channel did not have carriage deals with either AT&T U-verse,

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, or

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; its games were also available on

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References

External links

Official site
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