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Written by Maury Brown
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 15:05 |
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FSN Rocky Mountain and the Colorado Rockies have reached a long-term carriage extension that will see the Rockies on FSN through 2020 – 12 years. As part of the agreement, FSN Rocky Mountain will have an exclusive deal. Since 2003 Denver’s KTVD-TV (Channel 20) has carried the Rockies, as well, but will no longer do so as part of the agreement with FSN. As reported by the Denver Business Journal: The contract calls for FSN Rocky Mountain to carry 150 regular-season Rockies games each season through 2020, up from the current 125. The games will all be presented in high definition. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. […] FSN Rocky Mountain — formerly known as Fox Sports Net Rocky Mountain — is a regional unit of Bellevue, Wash.-based Liberty Sports Group, a division of John Malone’s Englewood-based Liberty Media Corp. Liberty Media Corp purchased the Atlanta Braves in May of 2007. A tip of the hat to the excellent Ken Fang of Fang's Bites
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