| Fox Sports Southwest | |
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| Launched | 1983 (as Home Sports Entertainment) April 2005 (FSN Houston) October 2008 (FS Oklahoma) |
| Network | Fox Sports Net |
| Owned by | Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation (1996-present) |
| Picture format | 480i (SD) 720p (HD) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, parts of New Mexico, and Arkansas |
| Headquarters | Dallas, Texas |
| Formerly called | Home Sports Entertainment (1983–1994) Prime Sports Southwest (1994–1996) Fox Sports Southwest (1996-2000) Fox Sports Net Southwest (2000-2004) FSN Southwest (2004-2008) |
| Sister channel(s) | Fox Sports Houston Fox Sports Oklahoma KDFW Dallas-Fort Worth KDFI Dallas-Fort Worth KTBC Austin |
| Website | foxsportssouthwest.com |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | 676 FS Southwest (SD/HD) 677 FS Southwest + (SD) 677-1 FS Southwest + (HD) |
| Dish Network | 416 FS Southwest (SD) 366 FS Southwest (HD) |
| Cable | |
| Available on select cable systems | Check local listings for channels |
Fox Sports Southwest (stylized as FS SOUTHWEST) is a regional sports network that operates in all or parts of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arkansas. The network operates out of the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Irving and also in Houston, the operations center for all Fox Sports Net channels in the central part of the United States.
It is the cable home for the Dallas Mavericks (NBA), Dallas Stars (NHL), Texas Rangers (MLB), FC Dallas (MLS), San Antonio Spurs (NBA), San Antonio Silver Stars (WNBA), plus local coverage of the Southland, Big 12, and Conference USA athletic conferences. It also is home to UIL 5A State championship games for Football, Boys Basketball, and Baseball.
Fox Sports Southwest originally began as Home Sports Entertainment in 1983, serving as the cable television home of professional and collegiate sports team throughout Texas and surrounding states. In the mid 1990s, HSE became a part of the Prime Sports Networks, thus becoming Prime Sports Southwest. In 1996, the network became Fox Sports (Net) Southwest, upon News Corporation's purchase of the Prime Networks and its merger with the SportsChannel networks.
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Fox Sports Southwest is divided into three broadcasting zones, each representing the three of the largest television markets in its designated broadcast region:
This is mostly due to the defined broadcast territories set by the National Basketball Association, in regards to the region's three NBA franchises—the Dallas Mavericks, Oklahoma City Thunder, and San Antonio Spurs. Whenever there is a conflict (Such as: Mavs/Thunder, Mavs/Spurs, Thunder/Spurs, and sometimes Mavs/Spurs/Thunder), the games will be shown on their own subfeeds (Thunder on FS Oklahoma, Spurs or Mavs on FS Southwest). However, in certain circumstances, a limited number of Dallas Stars games (Texas' only National Hockey League team) on Fox Sports Southwest air beyond the Dallas-Fort Worth designated market area.
Also, the state of Texas and its surrounding outer markets can receive Texas Rangers and Houston Astros games without territorial restrictions, thus Houston-area viewers can receive Rangers games on a designated feed, while the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex viewers can watch the Astros also on an designated feed. Fox Sports Southwest produces Dallas Stars telecasts for its sister station KDFI (Channel 27), and as of 2010, produces Texas Rangers telecasts for Fort Worth-based CBS-owned independent station, KTXA (Channel 21). Each team's telecasts are syndicated throughout their respective broadcast territories.
Although Fox Sports Southwest does not have a 24-hour HD simulcast, various Mavericks, Rangers, Spurs and Stars games are shown in 720p High-Definition. There are also several NCAA football and basketball games shown nationally on FSN that are available on Fox Sports Southwest HD.
Fox Sports Southwest Plus, also branded as "FOX Sports Southwest +" or FS SOUTHWEST +", is a channel used by Fox Sports Southwest to simultaneously show multiple events on two channels in the same market.[1]
A small logo bug on the top right corner of the screen is displayed during programming, reading FSSOUTHWEST. This is shown during most shows as well as nationally-broadcast games (with the FS colored in light blue). This changes during local games, though. During Mavericks games and Mavericks Live, the logo changes to FSMAVERICKS (with the FS in dark blue). During Stars games and Stars Live, the logo is FSSTARS (with the FS shown in a gold color). For Rangers games and Rangers Live, the logo is FSRANGERS; during the 2009 season, the FS was shown in dark blue (and was occasionally also shown in red whenever the Rangers were wearing their red jerseys and caps during home games), but in 2010 the color of FS was switched to red. For Spurs games and Spurs Live, the logo reads FSSPURS with the FS in a silver color.
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