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Mid-Atlantic Sports Network
Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) is an American regional sports network owned as a joint venture between two Major League Baseball franchises, the Baltimore Orioles (which own a controlling 90% interest) and the Washington Nationals (which owns the remaining 10%). Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, the channel broadcasts regional coverage of sports events in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area.
MASN is available on approximately 23 cable and fiber optic television providers throughout Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, eastern and central North Carolina, West Virginia, south central Pennsylvania and Delaware (on providers such as Comcast, Cox Communications, RCN, Mediacom, Charter Communications and Verizon FiOS, covering an area stretching from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Charlotte, North Carolina); it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV and Dish Network.
==History==
When the Montreal Expos relocated to Washington, D.C., in 2004 as the Nationals, issues arose regarding television rights for the new franchise. The Orioles have had a sizable following in the Washington area since moving from St. Louis in 1954, and have claimed Washington as part of their home territory since the second Washington Senators became the Texas Rangers in 1972. Since at least 1981, Major League Baseball had designated the Orioles' television territory as extending from Harrisburg to Charlotte. The Orioles agreed to share their territory with the Nationals in return for the ability to air Nationals games on the Orioles' planned regional sports network, to be named the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network. Major League Baseball paid the Orioles $75 million for a 10% stake in MASN, with the team maintaining a controlling interest of 90%. The Mid-Atlantic Sports Network launched on April 4, 2005.
The family of Lerner Enterprises founder Ted Lerner subsequently became part-owners in MASN after their purchase of the Washington Nationals in July 2006. As part of the deal, the Nationals' stake in the network would increase to 33% over 23 years. Under the current arrangement, MASN paid the Nationals $20 million to broadcast their games in 2005. The same month that the Lerners acquired minority interest in MASN, the network, which originally broadcast mainly during Orioles and Nationals games, converted into a 24-hour channel with an expanded roster of collegiate sports events, local and national programming to supplement the Nationals and Orioles games outside of the Major League Baseball season. It has become a strong competitor to the area's dominant regional sports network, Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic.
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