Bally Sports North is an American

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

Diamond Sports Group Diamond Sports Group LLC is an American media and entertainment company operating as a subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, and partnered with Entertainment Studios. The company operates Bally Sports, a group of regional sports channels which ...

, and operates as a

Bally Sports The Bally Sports Regional Networks are a group of regional sports networks in the United States owned by Diamond Sports Group, a joint-venture company of the Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios. The naming rights to the network ...

affiliate. The channel broadcasts coverage of sporting events involving teams located in the

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region, with a focus on professional and collegiate sports teams based in

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. The network maintains production studios and offices located in downtown

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, which are shared with production and office operations of

Bally Sports Wisconsin Bally Sports Wisconsin (BSWI) is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. Operating as the "Wisconsin" sub-feed of Fox Sports North until 2007, the channel was known as Fox ...

, which formerly served as a subfeed of Fox Sports North until it was spun off into a separate channel in 2006. Bally Sports North is available on

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providers throughout Minnesota, western

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, northern Iowa,

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, and

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; it is available nationwide on

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via

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History

Origins

The channel originated sometime in 1982 as WCCO II, a local cable channel owned by

Midwest Radio and Television Midwest Communications was a broadcasting company based in the Upper Midwest United States. The company's history dates back to August 1952, when it was formed as Midwest Radio and Television as a merger of WCCO (AM) and WTCN-TV. The company was ...

(later Midwest Communications), and created as a project by

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affiliate

WCCO-TV WCCO-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the CBS network to the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities area. It is owned-and-operated station, owned and operated by th ...

(channel 4, now an owned-and-operated station of the network) that broadcast a slate of local and general entertainment programming. On March 1, 1989, it was relaunched as the Midwest Sports Channel. It was also the same year that the network would acquire rights to Twins broadcasts. MSC's main draws in its early days were games from the Minnesota Twins and

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. The channel also served as an affiliate of

SportsChannel America SportsChannel is the collective name for a former group of regional sports networks in the United States that was owned by Cablevision, which from 1988 until the group's demise, operated it as a joint venture with NBC. Operating from March 1, ...

, filling much of its broadcast day with a mix of national programs and

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from the channel, and incorporated sports news tickers provided by the channel. MSC was largely considered a premium channel until the early 1990s, and did not even have full cable coverage in the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area until it was added by

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's St. Paul system on its expanded basic cable lineup in 1994. During the North Stars' 1991 Stanley Cup Playoff run, Midwest Sports Channel declined to exercise an option to carry the North Stars' home games (as the SportsChannel America package which MSC carried did not include rights to in-market home games). Instead the North Stars cut a revenue-sharing deal with a group of 11 cable companies to televise the games as a pay-per-view events at a then very expensive price of $12.95 a game. The following season the North Stars parted ways with Midwest Sports Channel and instead signed a new contract with

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to televise 17 games out-of-market while in-market viewers would be offered the games on pay-per-view through the same revenue sharing agreement with local cable operators that was used for the previous season's playoffs. The price for these games were $9.95 each with an option to purchase the entire package at a reduced rate. Additionally, 25 games were televised on

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Ownership changes and affiliation with FSN

In 1992, CBS acquired the Midwest Sports Channel, through its purchase of

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(which it previously had 47% ownership). For the 1992-93 season MSC once again televised some North Stars games, but the channel lost the broadcast rights permanently when the North Stars relocated to

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after the end of the season. MSC expanded its lineup of professional sports events in 1995, after it landed a television contract with the

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to hold the regional cable rights to the team's games for the 95-96 season. The following year, the Wisconsin Sports Network (a gametime-only network broadcasting Milwaukee Brewers and Bucks games), which had been owned by

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's Milwaukee franchise and Group W (whose corporate parent, Westinghouse, had just merged with CBS), was folded into MSC, giving the network a broader reach throughout the Midwest, in addition to the rights to the Brewers and Bucks contracts, and a sizeable stable of local outdoor programs. In 1997, the Midwest Sports Channel became an affiliate of the recently created

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. Shortly after completing its merger with CBS, on June 10, 2000, Viacom announced that it would sell the Midwest Sports Channel and

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-based regional sports network Home Team Sports. On July 11, 2000, Comcast acquired the Midwest Sports Channel from CBS.

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, which was a minority owner in the network and wanted to acquire the channel outright, attempted to block the deal,(as it would have been reworked into a

Comcast SportsNet NBC Sports Regional Networks is the collective name for a group of regional sports networks in the United States that are primarily owned and operated by the NBCUniversal division of the cable television company Comcast. The networks were origin ...

), filing a lawsuit on July 21 to stop the sale of MSC and Home Team Sports. On September 7, 2000, as part of a settlement between the two companies, Comcast traded its equity interest in Midwest Sports Channel to News Corporation in exchange for exclusive ownership of Home Team Sports (which subsequently joined

as Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic). Through its existing content agreement with the channel, WCCO continued to broadcast a replay of its 10:00 p.m. newscast daily at 4:30 a.m. as an encore until the sale to Fox was finalized. In 2000, MSC acquired the television rights to the

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, an NHL expansion team which began play that year; the deal was struck by Fox in May shortly before the lawsuit against Comcast was filed as part of its plans to start a Minnesota-based regional sports network. With the acquisition of the Wild broadcasts, MSC adopted FSN-branded graphics, with announcers frequently using the phrase "...live on MSC, Fox Sports Net style" during its game broadcasts. This culminated in the channel's official rebranding as Fox Sports Net North in April 2001, coinciding with the start of that year's Minnesota Twins season and the opening of

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(Then named Miller Park) as the home stadium of the Milwaukee Brewers; the new branding was heavily promoted on-air, on billboards and on bus advertisements. One side effect to the rebranding were resulting reductions to the network's budget; Fox also let the contracts to some events expire, forcing the network to depend more on programming from FSN's national schedule (such as the ''

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'' and ''You Gotta See This!''). In October 2003, Minnesota Twins owner

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attempted to launch a competing regional sports network, to be named Victory Sports One, which would broadcast all Twins games as well as local college and high school sport events. The channel was also expected to carry a number of locally produced sports shows, the centerpiece of which would be ''

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Outdoors''. Victory Sports One launched in November 2003, however the effort folded in May 2004 after six months due to financial and cable carriage issues; after VS1 ceased operations, Fox Sports Net North absorbed most of the channel's programming including the television rights to the Twins. As a result, Fox Sports Net launched a new "local fans first" initiative, launching the daily regional news program ''Minnesota Sports Report'' and adding regular broadcasts of high school sport events. In April 2006, still lacking a local news program after CBS Sold the channel (the now-defunct ''Minnesota Sports Report'' originated from FSN West and FSN West 2's studios in Downtown Los Angeles), FSN North launched ''FSN Live'', a first-of-its-kind program serving as both a sports news show, and a pre-game and post-game analysis program for the channel's game broadcasts. ''FSN Live'' is usually broadcast live and on-location from sports events televised by the channel, though ''FSN Live'' originates from the FSN North studios in Minneapolis whenever the focused team is playing on the road. Regardless of the origin of ''FSN Live,'' the pregame show usually features a preview of the game from the announcers and a pregame press conference by the head coach or manager. Meanwhile, the postgame show includes an interview with the player of the game, postgame analysis from the announcers and the head coach or manager's postgame press conference. On April 4, 2007, FSN North spun off its Wisconsin subfeed into FSN Wisconsin (now

), a separate channel carrying Milwaukee Brewers and

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games as well as other events sourced from its former parent channel. Wild broadcasts are available throughout Wisconsin. In 2009, FSN North rebranded as Fox Sports North as part of a network-wide rebranding of the Fox Sports regional networks. On December 14, 2017, as part of a merger between both companies,

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announced plans to acquire all 22 regional Fox Sports networks from 21st Century Fox, including

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. However, on June 27, 2018, the Justice Department ordered their divestment under antitrust grounds, citing Disney's ownership of

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. On May 3, 2019,

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and

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(through their joint venture, Diamond Holdings) bought Fox Sports Networks from

for $10.6 billion. The deal closed on August 22, 2019, thus placing Fox Sports North in common ownership with neighboring Sinclair station

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in Minneapolis. On November 17, 2020, Sinclair announced an agreement with casino operator

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to serve as a new

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partner for the FSN channels. Sinclair announced the new Bally Sports branding for the channels on January 27, 2021. On March 31, 2021, coinciding with the

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, Fox Sports North was rebranded as Bally Sports North, resulting in 18 other Regional Sports Networks renamed Bally Sports in their respective regions. In the spring of 2021, Bally Sports North aired five Timberwolves games on

, branded as "Bally Sports North Extra". This was the first time since the

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deal that any broadcaster regionally aired Timberwolves games over-the-air. In the spring of 2022, Bally Sports North aired two Twins games and a Wild game on

Programming

Bally Sports North holds the exclusive regional cable television rights to

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from the Minnesota Twins (having aired the team's games since 1989, and exclusive rights since 2011), NBA games from the Minnesota Timberwolves (since 1995), NHL games from the

(since 2000), and Major League Soccer games from Minnesota United FC (beginning in 2018). They also air WNBA games from the Minnesota Lynx and AHL games from the

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as well. The channel also broadcasts

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Division I collegiate sporting events from the

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and the

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, as well as college hockey games from the

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schools the

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and the

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. Finally Bally Sports North airs

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related material though it is limited to a pregame show airing on NFL Sundays a couple of hours before the game as well as replays of preseason action. Bally Sports North also distributes some of its programming to Bally Sports Wisconsin, including a reduced schedule of Minnesota Wild games, most NCHC hockey games and competitions sanctioned by the

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(WIAA). Due to blackout restrictions imposed by Major League Baseball and the NBA, Bally Sports North is not permitted to broadcast Milwaukee Brewers and

games televised by Bally Sports Wisconsin.

Other Programming

Fox Sports North also aired outdoor programming under the ''FSN Outdoors'' banner. This included fishing and hunting action. Also included is a portion of the national schedule which includes the

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as well as repeats of earlier national events on other Fox Sports branded channels.

Bally Sports North Extra

Bally Sports North operates Bally Sports North Extra as a 24-hour full-time HD channel that is used to carry additional programming including overflow live sports programming. Most providers carry the channel full-time, though some opt to carry it as a game-time only channel. Beginning in April 2021, Bally Sports North has been using Sinclair-owned

as a third overflow channel to accommodate several dates when all three professional sports teams are scheduled to play at the same time. These broadcasts are branded as Bally Sports Extra on The CW Twin Cities. For subscribers in the team's territories unable to access WUCW, these games will be offered on the

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On-air staff

Current

Minnesota Timberwolves

* Michael Grady – play-by-play announcer *

Jim Petersen James Richard Petersen (born February 22, 1962) is an American former professional basketball player, and a current television analyst with the Minnesota Timberwolves. From 2009 to 2017 he served as an assistant coach and later associate head coac ...

– analyst * Katie Storm - courtside reporter * Marney Gellner - pregame/postgame host * Rebekkah Brunson - pregame/postgame analyst * Quincy Lewis - pregame/postgame analyst * Kevin Lynch - pregame/postgame analyst

Minnesota Twins

Dick Bremer Dick Bremer (born March 1, 1956) is a sports broadcaster for Bally Sports North. He has been the lead television announcer for the Minnesota Twins since 1983. He has also called Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball and Minnesota Golden Goph ...

– play-by-play announcer * Chris Vosters – fill-in play-by-play announcer *

Justin Morneau Justin Ernest George Morneau (born May 15, 1981) is a Canadian former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado Rockies, and Chicago White Sox. At and , ...

— analyst *

Jack Morris John Scott Morris (born May 16, 1955) is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1977 and 1994, mainly for the Detroit Tigers. Morris won 254 games throughout his career. Armed ...

– analyst *

LaTroy Hawkins LaTroy Hawkins (born December 21, 1972) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. In his 21-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played for the Minnesota Twins, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Colorad ...

— analyst * Anthony LaPanta - pregame/postgame host & fill-in play-by-play announcer * Roy Smalley – pregame/postgame analyst *

Glen Perkins Glen Weston Perkins (born March 2, 1983) is an American former professional baseball pitcher and a television analyst. He played his entire career in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins. He made his major league debut with the Min ...

- pregame/postgame analyst * Marney Gellner - on-field reporter * Audra Martin - on-field reporter

Minnesota Wild

* Anthony LaPanta – play-by-play announcer * Ryan Carter – analyst *

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- studio/rinkside analyst *

Wes Walz Wesley Walz (born May 15, 1970) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL). Previously, he played centre for the Minnesota Wild of the NHL and ...

- studio analyst * Tom Chorske - studio analyst * Audra Martin - studio host

University of Minnesota Hockey

* Doug McLeod - play-by-play announcer * Ben Clymer - analyst

Minnesota Lynx

* Marney Gellner - Play-by-Play announcer * Lea B Olson - analyst

Minnesota United FC

* Callum Williams - play-by-play * Kyndra de St. Aubin - analyst * Charlie Beattie - sideline reporter/analyst

Minnesota Vikings

(Preseason only) *

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- play-by-play * Pete Bercich - analyst * Ben Leber - sideline reporter

Iowa Wild

*Joe O'Donnell – play-by-play

Other

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– host/reporter

Former

Tom Hanneman Tom Hanneman (June 29, 1952 – December 17, 2020) was an American play-by-play television announcer for the Minnesota Timberwolves basketball team of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and had been with the franchise since its inception in ...

– studio host (deceased) *

Bert Blyleven Bert Blyleven (born Rik Aalbert Blijleven, April 6, 1951) is a Dutch-American former professional baseball pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1970 to 1992, primarily with the Minnesota Twins. Blyleven recorded 3,701 ...

- Twins analyst * Jamie Hersch - Twins/Wild studio host (now at NHL Network) * Greg Coleman - Vikings sideline reporter (retired) *

Dave Benz Dave Benz is an American broadcaster who formerly served as the television play-by-play announcer for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Broadcasting career Comcast SportsNet Benz hosted several programs for ...

- Timberwolves play-by-play announcer

References

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