Metro Sports

Time Warner Cable Metro Sports
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Launched	December 12, 1996
Owned by	Time Warner Cable
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Country	United States
Language	American English
Broadcast area	Kansas City Metropolitan Area; Lawrence, Kansas; State of Nebraska
Sister channel(s)	Metro Sports HD Metro Sports 2 KC On Demand (Features Metro Sports material)
Website	[1]
Availability
Cable
Time Warner Cable Kansas City	Metro Sports: 30 & 310, 1310 (High-Definition) Metro Sports 2: 311 KC On Demand: 113
Time Warner Cable Nebraska	Metro Sports: 310
Knology (formerly Sunflower)	Metro Sports: 37

Metro Sports is a regional sports network serving the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, Lawrence, Kansas, and the state of Nebraska. It launched on December 12, 1996 and is currently available on cable systems including Time Warner Cable, Comcast and Knology.

Metro Sports has produced live sporting events for college sports conferences such as the Big 12 Conference, Missouri Valley Conference, the Summit League, the NAIA, and their individual members. Metro Sports' other hallmark programming is its coverage of local Kansas City high school athletics, including its "HyVee High School Game of The Week" featuring top local teams in the sports of Football, Basketball, Wrestling, Volleyball, Baseball, Soccer, and other sports.^[1] Metro Sports willl also broadcast five games of the Missouri Mavericks of the Central Hockey League during the 2010-2011 Central Hockey League season.^[2]

The Metro Sports-produced "Fantasy Huddle", a weekly Fantasy Football show, is also distributed to other Time Warner Cable systems nationwide.^[3]

In March, 2009, Metro Sports produced and televised live all 31 games of the 2009 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament in Kansas City, Missouri.

Metro Sports used to produce live sporting events for professional sports teams such as Major League Soccer's Kansas City Wizards, including simulcasting those events in Spanish on an SAP channel during its final two seasons of coverage, before the Wizards declined to renew their broadcast agreement, and the Kansas City Brigade of the Arena Football League, before the league was liquidated and reincarnated. Metro Sports also produced and televised Kansas City Royals games from 2003 to 2007, after which it lost the rights to FSN Midwest.

Metro Sports has published a book, More Than The Score: Kansas City Sports Memories.

On March 1, 2010, Metro Sports launched Metro Sports HD, a High Definition feed of its programming, and Metro Sports 2.^[4]

Carriage

Metro Sports is available on Time Warner Cable, Comcast, and Knology of Kansas (formerly Sunflower Broadband) in metropolitan Kansas City, Lawrence, Kansas and Nebraska. As of March 31, 2011, it was available in approximately 500,000 households.

Regular shows

• High School Roundup (10:30 P.M., Friday)
• Metro Sports Zone (10 P.M. Monday through Sunday)
• The Red Zone (Kansas City Chiefs)
• The Blue Zone (Kansas City Royals)
• Varsity KC (High School Sports)
• College Gametime (College Sports)

Old Metro Sports Logo

• Basketball and Football Coaches shows featuring the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, and Iowa State University.
• Total Access
• Fantasy Huddle
• Braggin' Rights
• Miscellaneous

Special events

• Kansas City Sports Commission Banquet
• Simone Awards
• Win for KC Banquet

Executive staff

• Chris Huwe, General Manager
• David Haden, Operations Manager
• Sean McDowell, Managing Editor

On-Air Staff

• Dave Stewart, Metro Sports Zone Anchor
• Leif Lisec, Metro Sports Zone Anchor
• Mick Shaffer, Anchor/Reporter
• Brad Porter, Anchor/Reporter
• Chris Gough, Anchor/Reporter, Host of Fantasy Huddle, Braggin' Rights, and Metro Pro Wrestling
• Erik Ashel, Anchor/Reporter
• Kennetra Pulliams, Anchor/Reporter
• Natalie Moultrie, Anchor/Reporter, Co-Host of Metro Sports Youth Weekly
• Herbie Teope, Co-Host of Fantasy Huddle, editor of FantasyHuddle.tv
• Dave Neilson, Co-Host of Fantasy Huddle

Announcers

• Kevin Wike, play-by-play
• Stan Weber, Football/Basketball Analyst
• Brian McRae, Baseball Analyst
• Richard Baldinger, Football Analyst
• Jayice Pearson, Football Analyst
• Danan Hughes, Football Analyst
• Doug Elstun, Basketball Analyst
• Patti Phillips, Basketball Analyst
• Greg Gurley, Basketball Analyst

Metro Sports Alumni

• Neil Harwell, Former Metro Sports GM
• Duke Frye, Anchor (1996–2000)
• Danyelle Sargent, Anchor/Reporter (2002–2004)
• Erin Bajackson, Anchor/Reporter

References

1. ^ "HyVee High School Game of The Week". KCOnDemand.com. http://www.kcondemand.com/Article.aspx?Id=8666&CatID=62. Retrieved 2010-10-16. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "TWC Metro Sports to Televise Five Mavericks Games". Missouri Mavericks. 2010-09-17. http://www.missourimavericks.com/news-and-stats/news/311-metro-sports-to-televise-five-games.html. Retrieved 2010-10-16. 
3. ^ "Fantasy Huddle Available to Expanded Audience". KCOnDemand.com. http://www.kcondemand.com/Article.aspx?Id=10378&CatID=44. Retrieved 2010-10-16. ^{[dead link]}
4. ^ "Headline: 2.20.2010". Kansas City Radio & Television. 2010-02-20. http://kcradio.tripod.com/. Retrieved 2010-10-16. 

External links

• Official Site
• Time Warner Cable Official Website