Spectrum Sports (Carolinas)

Spectrum Sports was a

regional sports network In the United States and Canada, a regional sports network (RSN) is a cable television channel (many of which are also distributed on direct broadcast satellite services) that presents sports programming to a local market or geographical region ...

owned by

Charter Communications Charter Communications, Inc., is an American telecommunications and mass media company with services branded as Spectrum. With over 32 million customers in 41 states, it is the second-largest cable operator in the United States by subscribe ...

that served

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and

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. It was formerly known as Time Warner Cable SportsChannel and was rebranded after Charter's acquisition of

Time Warner Cable Time Warner Cable, Inc. (TWC) was an American cable television company. Before it was acquired by Charter Communications on May 18, 2016, it was ranked the second largest cable company in the United States by revenue behind only Comcast, opera ...

in May 2016. The network had one feed serving

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, and the

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/ Myrtle Beach area of South Carolina. The network featured non-gameday programming from the

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, local

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, and

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. The channel was led by General Manager Jason Lockhart. In 2017, in an effort to reduce duplicity, Charter Communications closed down the Spectrum Sports outlets that shared markets with

Spectrum News Spectrum News (formerly Time Warner Cable News) is the brand for a slate of cable news television channels that are owned by Charter Communications through its acquisition of Time Warner Cable in May 2016. Each of the 15 regional channels primar ...

and merged them with their news counterparts. Spectrum Sports Carolinas' remaining programming was merged into

Spectrum News North Carolina Spectrum News 1 North Carolina is an American cable news television channel owned by Charter Communications, as an affiliate of its Spectrum News slate of regional news channels. The channel broadcasts rolling newscasts 24-hours a day, seven day ...

. Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017 Defunct local cable stations in the United States Defunct mass media in North Carolina Defunct mass media in South Carolina {{NorthCarolina-tv-station-stub