Fox Sports Kansas City

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Fox Sports Kansas City
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Type Regional sports network
Country United States
Broadcast area Kansas City metropolitan area
Kansas
Nationwide (via DirecTV; games only)
Network Fox Sports Networks
Headquarters St. Louis, Missouri
Programming
Language(s) English
Picture format 720p (HDTV)
480i (SDTV)
Ownership
Owner Diamond Sports Group
Parent Sinclair Broadcast Group & Entertainment Studios Networks
Sister channels Fox Sports Midwest
Fox Sports Indiana
History
LaunchedMarch 31, 2008 (2008-03-31)
Replaced Fox Sports Midwest (within designated broadcast area)
Links
Website foxsports.com/kansas-city
Availability
(some events may air on overflow feed Fox Sports Midwest Plus due to event conflicts)
Cable
Charter Spectrum 318
319 (Plus)
Comcast Xfinity 201, 863, or 1250
1255 (Plus)
Consolidated Communications 649
696 (Plus)
Cox Communications 2034
2076 (Plus)
Midco 623
172(Plus, sd-only)
Suddenlink Communications 38
39 (Plus)
Available on most other cable systems within broadcast areaConsult your local cable provider or program listings source for channel availability
Satellite
DirecTV 671-5
IPTV
AT&T U-verse 1750
Google Fiber 205
206(Plus)
Streaming media
Fox Sports Go www.foxsportsgo.com/
(U.S. cable internet subscribers only; requires login from participating providers to stream content; some events may not be available due to league rights restrictions)
AT&T TV 671-5

Fox Sports Kansas City (FSKC) is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, and operates as an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks. The channel broadcasts coverage of professional, collegiate, and high school sports events both within and outside the Kansas City area. It maintains offices and master control operations at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.

Contents

Fox Sports Kansas City is available on cable providers throughout western and central Missouri, Kansas, eastern Nebraska, and Iowa; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.

History

Fox Sports Kansas City logo, used from 2008 to 2012. Fox sports kansascity.png
Fox Sports Kansas City logo, used from 2008 to 2012.

Originally operating as a subfeed of Fox Sports Rocky Mountain, then Fox Sports Midwest in 1998, the network formally announced that it would spin-off Fox Sports Kansas City as a separate channel on January 24, 2008 after Fox Sports Midwest signed an exclusive long-term broadcast agreement with the Kansas City Royals. The agreement was struck following the dissolution of the Royals Sports Television Network, a regional network formed in 2003 to broadcast games and analysis programs for the Major League Baseball franchise, which distributed its event telecasts to broadcast and cable affiliates throughout the Midwestern and South Central United States. [1] Specifically, Fox Sports Kansas City was created to avoid scheduling conflicts with coverage of St. Louis Cardinals games televised by Fox Sports Midwest.

On December 14, 2017, as part of a merger between both companies, The Walt Disney Company announced plans to acquire all 22 regional Fox Sports networks from 21st Century Fox, including Fox Sports Kansas City. However, on June 27, 2018, the Justice Department ordered their divestment under antitrust grounds, citing Disney's ownership of ESPN. On May 3, 2019, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios (through their joint venture, Diamond Holdings) bought Fox Sports Networks from The Walt Disney Company for $10.6 billion. [2] The deal closed on August 22, 2019. [3] On March 31, 2021, Fox Sports Kansas City will be rebranded as Bally Sports Kansas City, a new partnership between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Bally Corporation that will result in 18 other Regional Sports Networks being renamed to Bally Sports in their respective regions. [4]

Programming

Fox Sports Kansas City holds the exclusive regional cable television rights to the Kansas City Royals, and produces the Major League Baseball team's pre-game and post-game show Royals Live and the weekly magazine program Royals Insider. Starting with the 2017 season, the channel holds the exclusive regional television rights to Sporting Kansas City broadcasts. [5] Because there can be Royals and SKC programming at the same time, Fox Sports Kansas City is provided to cable operators as two separate channels, which normally carry identical programming.

During the college football season, the channel broadcasts Kansas Jayhawks and Kansas State Wildcats games in different time slots to avoid scheduling conflicts; the channel also broadcasts Kansas State Wildcats basketball and volleyball and baseball from the Wildcats and Kansas Jayhawks.

The channel also carries select events televised by Fox Sports Midwest including games from the St. Louis Blues (NHL); basketball, volleyball, baseball and wrestling events from the Missouri Tigers, with the university's college football games televised on an alternate feed. [1] The Blues games are only shown within the Kansas City metropolitan area, as a separate feed exists for the rest of the state of Kansas. [6]

Other sports programming on the network includes Big 12 Conference regular season women's basketball and baseball games, and championship matches from both conference-sanctioned sports; regular season and championship basketball games from the Missouri Valley Conference; college coaches' shows; football and basketball championships from the Missouri State High School Activities Association; and NBA games from the Oklahoma City Thunder televised by Fox Sports Oklahoma. [1] In addition select Minnesota Timberwolves (produced by Fox Sports North) are shown outside of the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Fox Sports Kansas City HD is a high definition simulcast feed of Fox Sports Kansas City, which broadcasts in the 720p format. HD content broadcast on the feed including the channel's entire slate of Royals game telecasts, as well as game telecasts and other programming distributed national by Fox Sports Networks.

Region servedMLBNBANHL
Kansas City RoyalsMinnesota Timberwolves
(Fox Sports North)
Oklahoma City Thunder
(Fox Sports Oklahoma)
St. Louis Blues
(Fox Sports Midwest)
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Notable on-air staff

Kansas City Royals

Sporting Kansas City

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