Carolinas Sports and Entertainment Television

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Carolinas Sports and Entertainment Television, or C-SET, was a regional sports network in the United States.

It was the flagship station of the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association. C-SET went on the air in October of 2004, as the Bobcats were opening their first season in the league. C-SET was owned by Robert L. Johnson, the executive who founded Black Entertainment Television and used the money to become the first majority African-American owner in NBA history. Its coverage area included both North Carolina and South Carolina.

In addition to the Bobcats, C-SET aired college sports programs, mostly from the Big South Conference and Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, outdoors programming (hunting and fishing), auto racing, and action sports. C-SET also planned a nightly sportscast.

C-SET lasted only one NBA season and folded on the day of the 2005 NBA Draft. The main reason was that the network could not find another distributor other than Time Warner Cable.

In 2005, the Bobcats moved their local cable broadcasts to News 14 Carolina, where they remain today. In 2006-07, the team added over-the-air broadcasts on WMYT after one season on WHKY.