Spectrum Sports

Spectrum Sports (abbreviated as SPECTSN[1]), also known under the corporate names Spectrum Networks, or Charter Sports Regional Networks, is the collective name for a group of regional sports networks in the United States that are primarily owned and operated by Charter Communications through its acquisition of Time Warner Cable in May 2016.

Depending on their individual team rights, some Spectrum Sports outlets maintain overflow feeds available via digital cable channels in their home markets, which may provide alternate programming when not used to carry game broadcasts that the main feed cannot carry due to scheduling conflicts.

Time Warner Cable (TWC) launched its first regional sports network in Kansas City in 1996.

The network then known as Metro Sports featured mostly college and high school games.

That network began as a partnership with Insight Communications which Time Warner would later acquire.