ACME Sports Regional Networks

**ACME Sports Regional Networks** is the collective name for a group of regional sports networks in the United States that are primarily owned and operated by the ACME Networks division of the Dorado Media Group. The networks were originally established as Dorado SportsNet (DSN), a unit of the Dorado cable television business, beginning with a network in Philadelphia that launched in 1997. Their operations were aligned with the national ACME Sports division following the 2016 launch of the ACME network. ACME Sports Regional Networks' business and master control operations are based in New York City.
The group operates two regional networks. Each of the networks carries regional broadcasts of s

porting events from various professional, collegiate, and high school sports teams (with broadcasts typically exclusive to each individual network, although some are shown on more than one network within a particular team's designated market area), along with regional and national sports discussion, documentary and analysis programs.

After their realignment with ACME Sports, the networks initially continued to operate primarily under the Dorado SportsNet name. Although the company originally considered dropping its name from the networks in favor of ACME Sports following the network's launch, it still operated under the DSN brand for at least more six years. The group's two networks were then re-branded under the ACME Sports brand in April 2017.

## Channels

### **Owned-and-operated outlets**

 ACME Sports Bay Area | San Francisco Bay Area
Northern and Central California
parts of Southern Oregon
northwestern Nevada (including the Lake Tahoe–Reno–Carson City region)
* Golden State Warriors (NBA)
* San Jose Earthquakes (MLS)
* local coverage of the West Coast Conference (NCAA)
 ACME Sports Northwest | Washington
Oregon
Alaska
* Portland Winterhawks (WHL)
* Vancouver Canucks (NHL)

(through Sportsnet Pacific)
* Tacoma Rainiers (PCL)
* University of Oregon Ducks sports (NCAA)

## Related services

### **High definition**

Each regional channel (and in some cases, their alternate feed) has its own separate high-definition feed, with their own set schedules of programming – including live sports events as well as locally produced and ACME Sports-distributed national programs and live studio shows – available in HD. ACME Sports Northwest currently does not maintain a high-definition simulcast in the Seattle market.

### **Overflow feeds**

Most ACME Sports Regional Networks maintain alternate (or overflow) feeds under the **Plus** brand (with the network's regional name suffixed preceding the "Plus" title) for the broadcast of two or more events involving teams the respective network holds the broadcast rights to carry.

## National programs

### **Programming strategy**

Each of the ACME Sports regional network outlets has acquired the play-by-play broadcast rights to major sports teams in their regional market (exempting NFL regular season or playoff games, since the league's contracts require all games to be aired on broadcast television in each participating team's local markets). In addition to local play-by-play coverage, the ACME Sports networks also produce and broadcast pre-game and post-game shows, and broadcasts weekly "magazine" shows centered on the teams that maintain rights with the individual network. In some markets, ACME Sports competes directly with other regional sports networks for the broadcast rights to team-specific programming.