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Comcast Television and Comcast Television 2 are two Comcast
owned and operated digital cable television channels, available to Comcast subscribers in Michigan
on channels 900 and 901 (excluding Berrien County
, where it is not seen on Comcast systems there). They are used mostly for infomercials and classified ads. They also broadcast sports shows, such as Heartland Poker and Midwest Outdoor Magazine, as well as public affairs shows such as Comcast Newsmakers.
Comcast Television was launched on March 1, 2008, after the closure of Comcast Local.
On August 15, 2008, Comcast launched Comcast Television 2, which also shows infomercials and classified ads. Comcast Television 2 is also used for Fox Sports Detroit
's overflow feed, Fox Sports Detroit Plus.
monthly magazine show Your Tiger Ticket, which is also available on Comcast's On Demand
service for customers in Michigan. Other local sports content includes MHSAA
Network telecasts of regular season and state championship games, GLIAC
football games, CCHA
hockey games, as well as high school and college sports magazine shows. With this local sports coverage, Comcast Television could be considered a small regional sports network
, even though it does not air sports programs on a regular schedule or have rights to major professional and college teams like other regional sports networks, and it airs a lot more infomercials and classified ads than other regional sports networks.
Comcast Television is not part of Comcast SportsNet
, since local broadcast rights to major Michigan sports teams are owned by Fox Sports Detroit, Big Ten Network, the ESPN
family of networks, Fox Sports
, CBS Sports
and the Detroit Lions Television Network
.
from 2005–2008 that carried collegiate, high school and minor league sports from the Detroit area, throughout Michigan
and central Indiana
. The network also carried coverage from the Comcast SportsNet
s, (although it was not a separate Comcast SportsNet affiliate) such as Chicago Fire MLS
matches from CSN Chicago
and the Canadian Football League
(simulcasted from CBC
affiliate CBET
).
The network carried infomercials from 12AM ET until 6AM and at other various times throughout the day.
Comcast Local was used for Fox Sports Detroit
's overflow feed, Fox Sports Detroit Plus; such usage continues today on Comcast Television 2.
The station was the cable television home of Michigan's Big Ten and Mid-American Conference
teams as well as the Grand Valley State University
Lakers and the Grand Rapids Rampage
. After the formation of the Big Ten Network, Comcast Local produced selected Eastern Michigan University
Eagles football games for WXYZ-TV
in Detroit.
Comcast Local ceased operations on February 29, 2008, merging with a number of other Comcast properties in Metro Detroit to form Comcast Television.. Today, the rights to the EMU Eagles are owned by FS Detroit, making them cable exclusive, while ESPN Plus owns the rights to the Central Michigan University
Chippewas (through WNEM-DT2
) and the Western Michigan University
Broncos (through WXSP-CA
). WXSP-CA also owns the television rights to Grand Rapids' minor league sports teams and the GVSU Lakers.
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...
owned and operated digital cable television channels, available to Comcast subscribers in Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
on channels 900 and 901 (excluding Berrien County
Berrien County, Michigan
Berrien County is a county located in the extreme southwest of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph....
, where it is not seen on Comcast systems there). They are used mostly for infomercials and classified ads. They also broadcast sports shows, such as Heartland Poker and Midwest Outdoor Magazine, as well as public affairs shows such as Comcast Newsmakers.
Comcast Television was launched on March 1, 2008, after the closure of Comcast Local.
On August 15, 2008, Comcast launched Comcast Television 2, which also shows infomercials and classified ads. Comcast Television 2 is also used for Fox Sports Detroit
Fox Sports Detroit
Fox Sports Detroit , is a regional sports network that covers local sports teams in the state of Michigan, mostly those in the Metro Detroit area. It is an owned and operated affiliate of Fox Sports Net...
's overflow feed, Fox Sports Detroit Plus.
Local sports
One of the original shows on Comcast Television is the Detroit TigersDetroit Tigers
The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...
monthly magazine show Your Tiger Ticket, which is also available on Comcast's On Demand
Video on demand
Video on Demand or Audio and Video On Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand...
service for customers in Michigan. Other local sports content includes MHSAA
Michigan High School Athletic Association
-About:The Michigan High School Athletic Association is a service organization for high school sports in Michigan and is headquartered in East Lansing...
Network telecasts of regular season and state championship games, GLIAC
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is a competitive intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division II. The GLIAC was founded in June 1972. Member institutions are located in the midwestern United States in the States of Michigan and Ohio, with affiliate...
football games, CCHA
Central Collegiate Hockey Association
The Central Collegiate Hockey Association is a NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey college athletic conference that operates mostly in Michigan and Ohio, although it also has members in Alaska and Indiana. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference. It holds its championship...
hockey games, as well as high school and college sports magazine shows. With this local sports coverage, Comcast Television could be considered a small regional sports network
Regional sports network
In the United States of America and Canada, a regional sports network, or RSN, is a cable television station that presents sports programming to a local market. The most important programming on an RSN consists of live broadcasts of professional and college sporting events, as those games generate...
, even though it does not air sports programs on a regular schedule or have rights to major professional and college teams like other regional sports networks, and it airs a lot more infomercials and classified ads than other regional sports networks.
Comcast Television is not part of Comcast SportsNet
Comcast SportsNet
Comcast SportsNet is a group of regional sports networks in the United States primarily owned by the Comcast cable television company....
, since local broadcast rights to major Michigan sports teams are owned by Fox Sports Detroit, Big Ten Network, the ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
family of networks, Fox Sports
Fox Sports (USA)
Fox Sports is a division of the Fox Broadcasting Company . It was formed in 1994 with Fox's acquisition of broadcast rights to National Football League games...
, CBS Sports
CBS Sports
CBS Sports is a division of CBS Broadcasting which airs sporting events on the American television network. Its headquarters are in the CBS Building on West 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan, New York City, with programs produced out of Studio 43 at the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street.CBS...
and the Detroit Lions Television Network
Detroit Lions Television Network
The Detroit Lions Television Network is a network of six television stations in Michigan that broadcast the NFL's Detroit Lions preseason games as well as its weekly regular season pregame show The Ford Lions Report. As of 2011, WXYZ-TV in Detroit is the flagship station...
.
Comcast Local
Comcast Local (also known as CL) was a regional sports networkRegional sports network
In the United States of America and Canada, a regional sports network, or RSN, is a cable television station that presents sports programming to a local market. The most important programming on an RSN consists of live broadcasts of professional and college sporting events, as those games generate...
from 2005–2008 that carried collegiate, high school and minor league sports from the Detroit area, throughout Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
and central Indiana
Indiana
Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
. The network also carried coverage from the Comcast SportsNet
Comcast SportsNet
Comcast SportsNet is a group of regional sports networks in the United States primarily owned by the Comcast cable television company....
s, (although it was not a separate Comcast SportsNet affiliate) such as Chicago Fire MLS
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...
matches from CSN Chicago
CSN Chicago
Comcast SportsNet Chicago is a member of the Comcast SportsNet network of regional sports networks that covers local sports teams in the Chicago area.-Background:CSN Chicago is jointly owned by NBCUniversal , the family of J...
and the Canadian Football League
Canadian Football League
The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....
(simulcasted from CBC
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...
affiliate CBET
CBET
CBET, channel 9, is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's owned-and-operated television station in Windsor, Ontario. The station's signal also covers the Detroit, Michigan area across the international border in the United States, and is counted as a Detroit station for the purposes of...
).
The network carried infomercials from 12AM ET until 6AM and at other various times throughout the day.
Comcast Local was used for Fox Sports Detroit
Fox Sports Detroit
Fox Sports Detroit , is a regional sports network that covers local sports teams in the state of Michigan, mostly those in the Metro Detroit area. It is an owned and operated affiliate of Fox Sports Net...
's overflow feed, Fox Sports Detroit Plus; such usage continues today on Comcast Television 2.
The station was the cable television home of Michigan's Big Ten and Mid-American Conference
Mid-American Conference
The Mid-American Conference is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois. Nine of the twelve full member schools are in Ohio and Michigan, with single members...
teams as well as the Grand Valley State University
Grand Valley State University
Grand Valley State University is a public liberal arts university located in Allendale, Michigan, United States. The university was established in 1960, and its main campus is situated on approximately west of Grand Rapids...
Lakers and the Grand Rapids Rampage
Grand Rapids Rampage
The Grand Rapids Rampage was an Arena Football League team that began playing as a 1998 expansion team. They were coached by Steve Thonn.-History:...
. After the formation of the Big Ten Network, Comcast Local produced selected Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti is west of Detroit and eight miles east of Ann Arbor. The university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School...
Eagles football games for WXYZ-TV
WXYZ-TV
WXYZ-TV, channel 7, is an ABC-affiliated television station in Detroit, Michigan, USA. WXYZ-TV is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, and is the media company's largest-market TV station property...
in Detroit.
Comcast Local ceased operations on February 29, 2008, merging with a number of other Comcast properties in Metro Detroit to form Comcast Television.. Today, the rights to the EMU Eagles are owned by FS Detroit, making them cable exclusive, while ESPN Plus owns the rights to the Central Michigan University
Central Michigan University
Central Michigan University is a public research university located in Mount Pleasant in the U.S. state of Michigan...
Chippewas (through WNEM-DT2
WNEM-DT2
WNEM-DT2 is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for the Flint/Tri-Cities market in Michigan. It is a second digital subchannel of CBS affiliate WNEM-TV that is owned by the Meredith Corporation. Over-the-air, the station broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 22.2 from a transmitter...
) and the Western Michigan University
Western Michigan University
Western Michigan University is a public university located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. The university was established in 1903 by Dwight B. Waldo, and as of the Fall 2010 semester, its enrollment is 25,045....
Broncos (through WXSP-CA
WXSP-CA
WXSP-CD is the Class A MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for Southwestern Michigan, licensed to Grand Rapids. It broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on UHF channel 15 from a transmitter in Walker along Interstate 96. The station can also be seen on Charter channel 15 and Comcast...
). WXSP-CA also owns the television rights to Grand Rapids' minor league sports teams and the GVSU Lakers.
Former Comcast Local personalities
The sports broadcasters on Comcast Local included:- Joe Abramson: High School Football Analyst
- Rod Beard: Prep Ticket Host
- Clarence BlackClarence BlackClarence Jamil Black is an African American multi-media personality, who currently resides in Rochester, Michigan where he serves as an on-air talent for both WDFN and Comcast Local. He competed on Survivor: Africa in the fall of 2001.-Survivor:Clarence Black was a contestant on Survivor: Africa,...
: College Basketball Analyst - Matt DeryMatt DeryMatt Dery is an American sportscaster and is the former Sports Director at WDFN AM, a sports radio station near Detroit. Dery worked at WDFN from 1996 to 2009, after working for WHK Radio in Cleveland, Ohio...
: College Basketball Play-by-Play - Roger Faulkner: Soccer Analyst
- Ron Gillum: High School Football Analyst
- Mark HerrmannMark HerrmannMark James Herrmann is a former professional football player, a quarterback in the NFL. He was Associate Director of Educational Programs for the NCAA, before budget cutbacks. However, he is best known for his college career with the Purdue Boilermakers...
: Varsity Showcase Football Analyst - Ben Holden: CCHA Play-by-Play
- Dean Jackson: Varsity Showcase Play-by-Play, plus fill-in
- Rick MahornRick MahornDerrick Allen Mahorn is a retired American NBA basketball player who, at 6'10", played power forward and center...
: College Basketball Analyst - Tom Markowski: Prep Ticket Host
- Russ McNamara: Volleyball Play-by-Play
- Rob Otto: College Football Analyst, College Wrestling Analyst
- Al PawlowskiAl PawlowskiAl Pawlowski is an American sports broadcaster that is based in Cleveland, Ohio. Pawlowski hosts the pre and post-game shows for the Cleveland Indians on the team owned SportsTime Ohio regional TV network, serves as anchor of the in-game updates, and hosts a couple of weekly Indians related...
: Soccer Play-by-Play - Lyle PhairLyle PhairLyle Phair is a former professional ice hockey player who played three season for the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League.-External links:...
: CCHA Analyst - Art RegnerArt RegnerArt Regner is a sports radio broadcaster and author who has been on the Detroit sports airwaves, for WDFN and WXYT, since the 1990s. He is a native of Livonia, Michigan and graduated from Franklin High School...
: CCHA Tonite Host - Sean Ritchlin: CCHA Analyst
- Matt Shepard: WNBA Play-by-Play
- Tim Twentyman: Prep Ticket Host
- Derrick WalkerDerrick Walker (football player)Derrick Walker is a former professional American football player who played tight end for nine seasons for the San Diego Chargers, the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Oakland Raiders....
: High School Football Analyst - Dave Zoran: High School Football Play-by-Play