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Time Warner Cable SportsNet and Time Warner Cable Deportes (abbreviated as TWC SportsNet and TWC Deportes) are American regional sports cable and satellite television networks that are owned by the Southern California division of Time Warner Cable, with the Los Angeles Lakers maintaining editorial control over the content, including team-assigned reporters and anchors, as well as team-related programming.〔(Time Warner Cable's broadcasts of Lakers games set for tipoff ), ''Los Angeles Times'', September 26, 2012.〕 The networks are based near the Lakers' team headquarters in the Los Angeles suburb of El Segundo, California. TWC SportsNet – which broadcasts in English – and TWC Deportes – which is the first U.S. regional sports network with a 24-hour Spanish feed〔(Time Warner Lakers Broadcast Agreement FAQ's ) Los Angeles Lakers official site, February 15, 2011.〕 – launched at 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time on October 1, 2012.〔(Time Warner Cable stepping up its game in L.A. sports programming ), ''Los Angeles Times'', May 10, 2012.〕 Time Warner Cable SportsNet and Time Warner Cable Deportes serve the Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan areas, the Coachella and Las Vegas valleys, and Hawaii. Lakers game broadcasts serve as the centerpiece of both networks. TWC SportsNet and TWC Deportes have been the exclusive home of all Lakers games that are not televised nationally since the 2012–13 NBA season. Other sports events aired on the networks include Los Angeles Galaxy soccer and Los Angeles Sparks basketball games. Game broadcasts are carried in high definition in both English and Spanish (a Korean language audio track is also provided via the second audio program function available on most television sets and cable receiver boxes; as a result, TWC SportsNet holds the distinction of being the first English-language television network to offer Asian-language play-by-play audio of sporting events).〔(Time Warner Cable SportsNet to Launch Korean-Language Secondary Audio Programming for Lakers Games ), ''The Herald'', October 26, 2012.〕 ==Background== On February 14, 2011, the Lakers and Time Warner Cable signed a $3 billion, 20-year cable television agreement which took effect in the fall of 2012. The networks will televise every Laker game not designated for an exclusive broadcast by either ABC, ESPN or TNT. The new venture ended long-standing broadcast partnerships with KCAL-TV (channel 9), which (dating back to its days as KHJ-TV) had televised the Lakers' road games since the 1977–78 season; and with Fox Sports West, which in all of its incarnations had broadcast the team's home games since the 1985–86 season. The Lakers joined a growing list of NBA franchises that have abandoned over-the-air local telecasts in favor of their games being available exclusively on cable and satellite. Besides live games, the networks also feature a team news magazine program, classic games, profiles of Laker players past and present, and exclusive video-on-demand content that is available both online and on television.〔(Lakers starting networks with Time Warner Cable ) ''Orange County Register'', February 14, 2011.〕 As part of the agreement with Time Warner, the team stated that it would work with the cable provider to ensure that other providers within the Lakers' designated broadcast territory (parts of southern California, including the San Diego, Palm Springs and Santa Barbara markets, as well as southern Nevada and Hawaii) would have access to the two networks. As of 2012, the only television providers that does not carry either channel is satellite provider Dish Network, Cable Company Comcast serving Northern Santa Barbara County, and IPTV's CenturyLink Prism TV serving Las Vegas Valley. Time Warner offers the channel for $3.95 a subscriber, comparable to other regional sports networks, but other providers were concerned that this cost could increase substantially should the Los Angeles Dodgers begin carrying their games on Time Warner Cable SportsNet;〔(Lakers games become can't-watch-TV ), ''Los Angeles Times'', October 6, 2012.〕 while Time Warner Cable did later reach a 25-year agreement with the Dodgers, the provider created a separate channel, SportsNet LA, to carry that team's games and other Dodgers-related programming. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Time Warner Cable SportsNet and Time Warner Cable Deportes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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