Los Angeles Lakers On February 14, 2011, the Lakers and Time Warner Cable signed a
$3 billion, 20-year cable television agreement which took effect in the fall of 2012. The network televises every Lakers game not designated for an exclusive broadcast by either
ABC,
ESPN,
NBC, or for streaming on
Amazon Prime Video. The new venture ended long-standing broadcast partnerships with
KCAL-TV (channel 9), which (dating back to its days as KHJ-TV) had televised the Lakers' road games since the
1977–78 season; and with Fox Sports West (now
Bally Sports West), which in all of its incarnations had broadcast the team's home games since the
1985–86 season. The Lakers joined a growing list of NBA franchises that have abandoned over-the-air local telecasts in favor of their games being available exclusively on cable and satellite. Besides live games, the network also feature a team news magazine program, classic games, profiles of Laker players past and present, and exclusive
video-on-demand content that is available both online and on television. As part of the agreement with Time Warner, the team stated that it would work with the cable provider to ensure that other providers within the Lakers' designated broadcast territory (parts of Southern California, including the
San Diego,
Palm Springs and
Santa Barbara markets, as well as Southern Nevada and Hawaii) would have access to the network. As of 2012, the only television providers that does not carry the channel are satellite provider
Dish, cable company
Comcast serving Northern
Santa Barbara County, and IPTV's CenturyLink
Prism TV serving
Las Vegas Valley.
Frontier FiOS carried the channel until 2019. Time Warner offers the channel for $3.95 a subscriber, comparable to other
regional sports networks, but other providers were concerned that this cost could increase substantially should the
Los Angeles Dodgers begin carrying their games on Time Warner Cable SportsNet; while Time Warner Cable did later reach a 25-year agreement with the Dodgers, the provider created a separate channel,
SportsNet LA, to carry that team's games and other Dodgers-related programming.
Los Angeles Galaxy On November 18, 2011, Time Warner Cable Sports announced a broadcast rights agreement with the
MLS's
Los Angeles Galaxy a ten-year deal starting with the 2013 season in which the team will be paid $55 million during the contractual period. The network will televise all Galaxy matches that are not televised on a national network, and will also broadcast matches involving non-MLS opponents. Similar to the agreement with the Lakers, the Galaxy also has supplementary programming featured on the networks, including a weekly team magazine and possible classic matches. Prior to the network launch,
Anaheim-based
independent station KDOC-TV (channel 56) televised 18 Galaxy matches for the
2012 MLS season, with production handled by Time Warner Cable SportsNet. The new network then televised the remainder of the Galaxy's schedule beginning in October 2012. (KDOC also televised select matches featuring the Galaxy's former stadium-mate and crosstown rival,
Chivas USA, until that team was folded after the 2014 season.) Much like the Lakers, the Galaxy formerly maintained a long-standing broadcast agreement with Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket.
Los Angeles Sparks On March 14, 2012, it was announced that the channel had signed a multi-year deal with the
WNBA's
Los Angeles Sparks franchise. Although the deal was reported as being non-exclusive, all of the televised games during the 2013 season aired on TWC SportsNet, except for those that were nationally broadcast on
ABC,
ESPN or
ESPN2 (as with the Galaxy, KDOC aired the 2012 schedule in preparation for the launch of the new channels). Since the
2018 WNBA season, because the
Las Vegas Aces hold territorial rights for all of
Southern Nevada, Los Angeles Sparks games are
blacked out in the
Las Vegas Valley on Spectrum SportsNet regardless of the cable or satellite provider, requiring a subscription to the WNBA League Pass
out-of-market sports package to view those telecasts. All other sports programming, with the exception of Sparks basketball games carried on Spectrum SportsNet, is available in Southern Nevada.
Los Angeles Dodgers On January 23, 2013, Time Warner Cable and the
Los Angeles Dodgers reached a deal to create a new channel called
SportsNet LA, which would become the exclusive local carrier of the
Major League Baseball franchise's games starting with the
2014 season. Time Warner Cable outbid Fox Sports Net for the contract, which runs for 25 years through 2039 and is estimated to be worth $8.35 billion. At the time of the announcement, the team was supposed to be considering offering a package of games to be aired over
Fox Television Stations' two Los Angeles outlets,
Fox owned-and-operated station KTTV (channel 11) and
MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station
KCOP-TV. Because the
San Diego Padres hold territorial rights for all of San Diego County,
Los Angeles Dodgers games are
blacked out in the county on Spectrum SportsNet LA regardless of the cable or satellite provider, requiring a subscription to the
MLB Extra Innings out-of-market sports package to view those telecasts. All other sports programming, with the exception of Dodgers baseball games carried on Spectrum SportsNet LA, is available in San Diego County.
Los Angeles Chargers On August 2, 2018, Spectrum SportsNet announced a content and programming partnership agreement with the
NFL's
Los Angeles Chargers to deliver a new documentary series,
Backstage: Chargers. A bi-weekly all-access half-hour series chronicling the LA Chargers games, players and executives from a behind-the-scenes perspective during the team's season. Bi-weekly episodes will also re-air on the Chargers local TV partner,
KCBS-TV (CBS 2) and on
Facebook Watch. Since the
2020 NFL season, because the
Las Vegas Raiders hold territorial rights for all of Southern Nevada, Los Angeles Chargers’ programming and preseason games are blacked out in the Las Vegas Valley on Spectrum SportsNet regardless of the cable or satellite provider. All other sports programming, with the exception of Chargers football games carried on Spectrum SportsNet, is available in Southern Nevada.
Other sports programming rights Spectrum SportsNet also airs live broadcasts of the football and boys' basketball championship games of the
California Interscholastic Federation and
Los Angeles City Section, the CIF state championship games in boys' and girls' basketball, and the regional and state bowl games in football. It also carries select games of the Lakers-owned
NBA G League team, the
Coachella Valley Lakers. Spectrum Deportes also aired Pro Footvolley Tour. For the 2012–13 athletic season, Spectrum SportsNet aired select football and men's basketball games from the
Mountain West Conference that were not televised on a national basis; one or both of the teams playing in nearly all of the telecasts that the network aired that season involved the
San Diego State (SDSU) Aztecs and the
University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Rebels, both universities are in the network's primary service area. It lost the rights to Mountain West games beginning with the 2013–14 season due to new broadcast agreements signed by the conference; some SDSU games that are not nationally televised are now carried on
Fox Sports San Diego, while some UNLV games are seen on
AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain. Since the 2012–13 athletic season, Spectrum SportsNet aired select men's basketball games from the
West Coast Conference that were not televised on a national basis. Three universities (
Loyola Marymount Lions,
Pepperdine Waves and
San Diego Toreros) are in the network's primary service area. Spectrum SportsNet has also aired the
NBC program
Poker After Dark and some
action sports events, while airs a weekly
lucha libre card taped in
Mexico City. For the 2014
MLS season, Spectrum Deportes agreed to carry
Chivas USA matches in Spanish that are not televised on a national network in their final season before the team disbands. on July 30, 2025, Spectrum SportsNet signed a new TV broadcasting contract with the
CIF Southern Section to televise Friday night high school football games presented by the Southern California Ford Dealers. The contract is for three seasons, and it will include the Division 1 playoff and championship games along with the Southern California regional and state championship games. ==On-air staff==