Launched on October 28, 2002, the creation of the network played a key role in the relocation of the
New Orleans Hornets NBA franchise from
Charlotte,
North Carolina. The only regional sports network serving
New Orleans area viewers at the time was
Fox Sports Southwest, and its coverage of
Louisiana sporting events was limited. From 2005 to 2010, Charter Communications did not carry the network on its Louisiana systems, despite having a carriage deal in place at the channel's launch in 2002. Because of this, Hornets games were not available to people living outside of the New Orleans metropolitan area during this time. In 2008, Cox and Charter negotiated a proposal to allow three Hornets games to be carried on local origination channels operated by Charter in the lead-up to that year's
NBA All-Star Game as a precursor to a deal, however the discussions ended without a contract. On December 15, 2010, Cox announced that it had finally reached a deal with Charter to carry the network on its systems again starting in 2011, a move done with the belief that the Hornets would remain in New Orleans for the foreseeable future. Cox Sports Television's
standard definition and
high definition feeds were added to Charter's Louisiana systems on January 1, 2011. The channel was an initial affiliate of the
American Sports Network with its first broadcast on August 30, 2014. Cox Sports New Orleans agreed to carry some games from the first season of the
Fall Experimental Football League in October and November 2014. Cox shut down Cox Sports Television as a separate channel on October 31, 2021, with key content being moved to the
YurView channels in its service footprint, such as
YurView Louisiana, YurView Florida, and YurView Arkansas. ==Programming==