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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 live and available to more than 4 million homes in the Houston area. The regional sports network, owned by AT&T U-verse and DirecTV, which is being operated by the DBS leader, tipped off at 6 a.m. (CT) with a poker show and will present its first Houston Rockets NBA basketball game against the Memphis Grizzlies at 7 p.m. (CT).