NBC Sports Boston is on its seventh name. It was started in 1981 as PRISM New England. This was then changed to SportsChannel New England (1983), Fox Sports New England (1998), Fox Sports Net New England (1999), FSN New England (2004), and Comcast SportsNet New England (or CSN New England or even CSNNE) in 2007. In 2017, this was changed to NBC Sports Boston.