Turner South to be relaunched as SportSouth on 10/13

[MuzikGuy]

Turner South set for change in name, format

By TIM TUCKER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 10/04/06

Five months after paying $375 million for Turner South, Fox Cable Networks has a new name — and a new game plan — for the channel.

It'll be relaunched and rebranded on Oct. 13 as SportSouth, a regional sports network that will be built around heavy doses of Braves, Hawks and Thrashers programming.
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[vpgrar]

Wasn't there a "SportSouth" years ago?

 

[jal41]

Wasn't there a "SportSouth" years ago?

Yep. That was FSN South before Fox bought the network from...Turner Broadcasting.

How irony comes around. I wonder what will happen with the current FSN South. I suspect the rights to Braves, Hawks, and Thrasers games the two mentioned networks have will go exclusively to the new SportSouth, and FSN South will just air national FSN programming.

 

[MuzikGuy]

Wasn't there a "SportSouth" years ago?

Yep. That was FSN South before Fox bought the network from...Turner Broadcasting.

How irony comes around. I wonder what will happen with the current FSN South. I suspect the rights to Braves, Hawks, and Thrasers games the two mentioned networks have will go exclusively to the new SportSouth, and FSN South will just air national FSN programming.

Braves and Hawks games will air on FSN South and SportSouth. The Thrashers will air exclusively on SportSouth.