La Cadena Deportiva is a defunct American Spanish language regional sports network that was owned by Liberty Media (originally through its parent company Tele-Communications Inc., in conjunction with Bill Daniels), and operated as an affiliate of the Prime Network.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the channel broadcast regional coverage of sports events throughout the Southern California, with a focus on professional sports teams based in Los Angeles and San Diego.
It also carried coverage of college sports events from the Pacific-10 Conference as well as additional international soccer games not shown on Prime Ticket.
On October 31, 1995, News Corporation, which sought to create its own group of regional sports networks as a cable venture for Fox Sports, which was formed the year prior through the Fox Broadcasting Company's acquisition of the television rights to the NFL's National Football Conference, acquired a 50% ownership interest in the Prime Network.
[5] It subsequently announced that La Cadena Deportiva Nacional would simultaneously be relaunched as Fox Sports Americas, which took effect on November 1, 1996.