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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.
Viewers in the Root Sports regional footprints should not notice any changes in programming or in personnel. The Root Sports Pittsburgh, Rocky Mountain and Northwest were once under the Fox Sports Net umbrella but were sold to Liberty Media in 2008 which later came under the auspices of DirecTV. And now theyâre under AT&T.