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rightThe Madison Square Garden Network, more commonly referred to as the MSG Network or simply as MSG, is a regional cable television and radio network serving the New York City area. The network takes the name of Madison Square Garden and has long been the producer of radio and television broadcasts of the NBA's New York Knicks and the NHL's New York Rangers, which play their home games at the Garden.

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Other Sports Coverage

In addition to Knicks and Rangers games, MSG currently carries cable television broadcasts of the WNBA's New York Liberty and MLS's Red Bull New York (formerly MetroStars). The radio division of MSG Network currently produces Knicks and Rangers broadcasts for 1050 ESPN Radio.

MSG and its sister station FSN New York, also broadcasts MAAC basketball, NEC basketball, Atlantic-10 basketball, Pac-10 football and basketball, Big-12 football and women's basketball, and ACC basketball. The latter three are part of national FOX Sports Net broadcast contracts.

Selected New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils games also air on MSG when both teams play at the same time, with one airing on sister-channel FSN New York, which along with MSG are officially referred to as MSG Networks. In turn, selected Rangers games air on FSN New York when there the other team is on MSG and no Islanders or Devils game at the same time.

MSG2 and FSN New York 2

If more than two of these four local teams are playing at the same time, the Rangers play on "MSG2," and the Islanders or Devils play on "FSN New York 2," which are different selected channels for each cable system, many being broadcast on the TV Guide Channel, while satellite systems will show them on a sports alternate channel. These channels are sometimes not available outside the immediate New York City area.

From the fall of 1998 until the spring of 2005, Cablevision chose not to open up an additional MSG2 channel, instead placing games on their MSG Metro Channels, which was only available in limited homes. During this era, when two of the teams that the MSG Networks covered played against each other, only one broadcast would usually be produced using one of the team's announcing duos. There were also times when games were scheduled on Metro and no game on MSG or FSN New York. With the discontinuation of Metro, the return of MSG2 and FSN New York 2, and the loss of the New Jersey Nets from their winter lineup, the MSG Networks now produce two broadcasts when two of their teams are playing against each other.

Local television listings: [MSG2] & [FSN New York 2]

Original Programming

Online Progamming

MSG Network's website, MSGNetwork.com, has had exclusive podcast programming only available via download starting in 2006. These include:

Personalities

MSG Network

FSN New York

Buffalo Sabres Coverage on MSG

After the collapse of the Empire Sports Network caused by the bankruptcy of Adelphia, MSG now also broadcasts the Buffalo Sabres to Upstate New York customers. The Sabres essentially control the entire broadcast, including an exclusive post-game show.

MSG in Upstate New York

Aside from Sabres games, MSG controls the broadcasts of all other local teams that it carries. Rangers, Devils, and Islanders games are blacked out in the Sabres primary broadcast territory, which is Buffalo and Rochester, but Knicks games are broadcast on FSN New York or a temporary alternate channel.

Most of upstate New York (notably Albany, Binghamton, and Syracuse) gets all Sabres games but also the Rangers, Islanders, and Devils if the Sabres are on the road AND the Knicks are not playing on the same night. In some areas, Knicks games air on MSG, while FSN New York carries the Sabres. Sabres games, however, are not broadcast in Plattsburgh, which receives the same MSG and FSN feeds as the NYC market.

FSN New York is no longer on Time Warner's expanded basic systems in upstate New York as SportsNet New York filled its slot.

College sporting events may also be blacked out in parts of upstate New York, especially involving teams from the Big East Conference, because MSG sometimes can only acquire broadcast rights in New York City and its immediate suburbs.

Baseball Coverage 1989-2005

Between 1989 and 2001, the network was the cable home of the New York Yankees. MSG also produced the Yankees radio broadcasts from 1994 to 2001, which aired on WABC-AM. MSG also owned the over the air broadcast rights to Yankee games, which they sold to WPIX from 1989-1998 and WNYW from 1999-2001. In 2002, the Yankees left MSG to form the YES Network. From 2002 to 2005, MSG aired games from Major League Baseball's New York Mets on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, games which previously aired on FSNY. Like the Yankee deals, Cablevision also owned the broadcast TV rights which were on WWOR before moving to WPIX in 1999. After the 2005 baseball season, Met games moved to SportsNet New York, a cable network partially owned by the Mets.

History

The MSG Television network debuted on October 15, 1969 with a game between the Rangers and the Minnesota North Stars. MSG Network, thus, became the first regional sports network in North America, and one of the first of its kind in the world.

Future Plans

Since there is a hole in their programming schedule, which was created by the fact they do not have the rights to either the Yankees or the Mets, the network has announced that, in upcoming months, more entertainment-oriented programming will air on the network. This programming will include concerts and professional boxing and wrestling cards that have taken place at Madison Square Garden in the past and continue to occur to this day. [link]

Ownership

The network is majorly owned by Cablevision, which also owns Madison Square Garden itself, the Knicks, the Rangers and the Liberty.

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Terrestrial television>Broadcast television in the New York City market  [(Nielsen DMA #1)]
WCBS 2 (CBS)  -  WNBC 4 (NBC)  -  WNYW 5 (Fox)  -  WABC 7 (ABC)  -  WWOR 9 (UPN-to be MNTV in 09/06)  -  WPIX 11 (The WB-to be The CW in 09/06) (The Tube on DT2)  -  WNET 13 (PBS)  -  WEBR-CA 17 (GCN)  -  WLIW 21 (PBS)  -  WMBQ-CA 22 (MTV2)  -  WNYE 25 (NYC)  -  WPXN 31 (i)  -  W36AZ 36 (Ind)  -  WDVB-CA 39 (ImaginAsian)  -  WNYN-LP 39 (Azteca América)  -  WXTV 41 (UNI)  -  WSAH 43 (S@H/JTV)  -  WNJU 47 (TMD)  -  WEDW 49 (PBS/CPTV)  -  WNJN 50 / WNJB 58 (PBS/NJN)  -  WVVH-LP 50 (A1) - WKOB-LP 53 (Ind)  -  WTBY 54 (TBN)  -  WRNN-LP 57 (Ind)  -  W60AI 60 (HSN)  -  WMBC 63 (Ind)  -  WFME 66 (Religious)  -  WFTY 67 (TFR)  -  WFUT 68 (TFR)
Local digital-only channels
WRNN 48 (Ind) - WLNY 57 (Ind)
(Both stations also have low-powered repeaters in analog.)
Local cable television channels
MSG Network  -  News 12  -  NY1  -  NYCTV  -  SportsNet New York  -  YES Network

 

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