Although doing taxes independently using tax software saves money over hiring an accountant, the costs of hiring an accountant is also beneficial to the individual. Accountants prepare tax returns with much more sophisticated software, compared to software sold to consumers.
Root Sports was launched in 1989 as Northwest Cable Sports, a network owned by King Broadcasting Company. In 1991, King Broadcasting sold Northwest Cable Sports and its other media properties to The Providence Journal Company, which sold the network to Liberty Media in 1992.
Root Sports Southwest is the successor to Comcast Sports Houston, which AT&T and DirecTV bought out of bankruptcy. The RSN, the fourth under DirecTV Sports Networks portfolio -- Rocky Mountain, Pittsburgh and Northwest -- will also televise games and related programming from MLBâs Houston Rockets.