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Spectrum Sports (Ohio)

{{Infobox television channel

| name = Spectrum Sports

| logo = Spectrum Sports logo.png

| launch_date = {{start date and age|1998|09}} (central Ohio),
{{start date and age|2004|04}} (SW Ohio),
{{start date and age|2006|08}} (NE Ohio),
{{start date and age|2009|09}} (statewide)

| closed_date = {{end date and age|2019|01}}

| network = Spectrum Sports

| owner = Charter Communications

| website = [http://www.myspectrumsports.com/oh/northeastohio.html Northeast Ohio]
[http://www.myspectrumsports.com/oh/midohio.html Mid Ohio]
[http://www.myspectrumsports.com/oh/southwestohio.html Southwest Ohio]

| country = United States

| area = Cleveland, Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio, Dayton, Ohio, Akron, Ohio & surrounding areas

| headquarters = Columbus, Ohio

| replaced_by = Spectrum News 1 (Ohio)

| former_names = TWTV, Time Warner Cable Sports 24, Time Warner NE Ohio Network (NEON), Central Ohio Sport! TV, Time Warner Cable Sports Channel

| sister_channels = Spectrum Sports (New York),
Spectrum Sports (Wisconsin),
Spectrum Sports (Kansas City),
Spectrum SportsNet (Los Angeles)
Spectrum Sports (Florida)

}}

Spectrum Sports was a regional sports network serving Ohio and parts of northern Kentucky, southern Michigan and western Pennsylvania operated by Charter Communications through its acquisition of Time Warner Cable in May 2016. It was broadcast on Channel 311 and 1311 exclusively on Time Warner Cable/Charter systems.

History

The channel began in September 1998{{cite press release |title=No one covers Central Ohio like Central Ohio Sport! TV |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1388&dat=20000531&id=23tQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YhIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6595,3254876 |publisher=Northwest Columbus News |date=May 31, 2000 |access-date=November 18, 2014}} in Columbus, Ohio as a partnership between Insight Communications and Time Warner Inc. (now WarnerMedia) through its then-owned Time Warner Cable unit called "Central Ohio Sport! Television." Similar channels debuted in February 2004 to Dayton and in 2006 to Cincinnati{{cite press release |title=Sports games a boost for Time Warner |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2006/01/16/story5.html?page=all |work=Dayton Business Journal |date=January 16, 2006 |access-date=March 29, 2014}} as TWTV and in Cleveland and Akron/Canton, Ohio as NEON. In August 2012 the service replaced four regional part-time sports channels (Central Ohio Sport! Television, TWTV, Time Warner Cable Sports 24, and NE Ohio Network) into a three-zoned statewide sports network that serves 83 of Ohio's 88 counties.

On November 17 and 18, 2015, the network aired Before The League, a documentary series on the history of professional American football in Ohio.{{cite web |url=http://www.irontontribune.com/2015/10/29/before-the-league-documentary-targets-pre-nfl-era/|title='Before the League' documentary targets pre-NFL era|work=Ironton Tribune|access-date=October 27, 2015}}

It was the broadcaster of the Columbus Crew, one of the original Major League Soccer franchises; Mid-American Conference college football and basketball including University of Akron, Bowling Green State University, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Kent State University, Miami University, Ohio University, Ball State University, Central Michigan University, Eastern Michigan University, Northern Illinois University, University of Toledo, and Western Michigan University; Wright State Raiders, Dayton Flyers basketball; and the Ohio High School Athletic Association. The channel airs supplemental local shows, smaller collegiate sports, and other minor professional sports within the Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania franchise areas of Time Warner Cable.

In January 2019, the channel was shut down, as part of a larger effort to divert their resources to the new Spectrum News 1 channels.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2019/03/04/spectrum-networks-new-all-ohio-news-channel-aims.html|title=Spectrum Networks' new all-Ohio news channel aims to focus on 'issues-based' coverage|website=Columbus Business First|access-date=2019-03-14}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.prosoccerusa.com/mls/columbus-crew-sc/columbus-crew-sc-tv-partner-changes-channels-as-spectrum-networks-launch-spectrum-news-1/|title=Columbus Crew TV partner changes channels with Spectrum Networks' new direction|last=Ferree|first=Ben|date=2018-11-16|website=Pro Soccer USA|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-14}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/television-radio/2019/01/02/charter-pulls-plug-spectrum-sports-wisconsin-channel/2460821002/|title=Charter pulls the plug on Spectrum Sports Wisconsin channel|website=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|language=en|access-date=2019-03-14}} Ohio High School Athletic Association football championships will move to the new channel, which launched November 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2018/11/27/spectrum-news-1-to-televise-all-seven-ohsaa-state-football-championships|title=Spectrum News 1 to Televise All Seven OHSAA State Football Championships|website=spectrumnews1.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-14}}

Programming

The network held the rights to:

References

{{Reflist|30em}}

{{Columbus TV}}

{{Cleveland TV}}

{{Cincy TV}}

{{Time Warner Cable |state=expanded}}

{{Sports television in the United States}}

Ohio

Category:Defunct local cable stations in the United States

Category:Television stations in Cleveland

Category:Television stations in Columbus, Ohio

Category:Television stations in Cincinnati

Category:Television channels and stations established in 1998

Category:Television channels and stations disestablished in 2019