By the early 1990s, the channel would affiliate with Prime Network. Sources placed the value of the agreement at approximately $500 million. In December 1988, MSG Network became the first cable network to secure all local television rights to a Major League Baseball team's game, signing a 12-year deal with the New York Yankees that would give it exclusive rights to 150 games per season from 1991 through 2000. On April 9, 1980, the channel began using both the full name "Madison Square Garden Network" and its new abbreviated form "MSG Network". It was this network which became known as Madison Square Garden Television that would evolve into the current MSG Network. These events were in addition to the 250 already being produced for the national distribution. to distribute 125 events to New York-area cable systems. Around the same time, a separate network was created by the Madison Square Garden Corp. In 1977, the Madison Square Garden Corp, which included its namesake sports arena was sold to Gulf+Western. In 1980, this network was relaunched as the USA Network. This initially unnamed network was distributed nationally and later became known as the Madison Square Garden Sports Network. On Septemanother channel debuted as a joint-venture of UA-Columbia Cablevision and the Madison Square Garden Corp. Games held at Madison Square Garden later appeared on another of Sterling Manhattan Cable's ventures, premium cable network Home Box Office ( HBO) during the network's early years. Charles Dolan, who later headed MSG and Cablevision, was the president of Sterling Manhattan at the time. (The channel's coverage of the deciding game of the 1970 NBA Finals, in which the Knicks beat the Los Angeles Lakers, was the only live broadcast of the game shown in New York City WABC-TV blacked out ABC's telecast.) Madison Square Garden renewed the deal with what was now Sterling Manhattan Cable Television in the fall of 1970, in a five-year deal at an estimated rights fee of $1–1.5 million. At the time, the cable provider, which had televised New York Knicks and Rangers post-season games the previous spring for a $25,000 rights fee, had only 13,000 subscribers.
The channel, which at the time did not even have a name, was carried by Manhattan Cable Television under a one-year, 125-event deal that was signed in May 1969. As a result, it became the first regional sports network in North America, and one of the first of its kind in the world. What would become MSG debuted on October 15, 1969, with an NHL hockey game between the New York Rangers and the Minnesota North Stars. The channel is named after the Madison Square Garden sports and entertainment venue in Midtown Manhattan, home of the Knicks and Rangers. Primarily serving the Mid-Atlantic United States, its programming focuses on events featuring and other programs about New York City sports teams, including live game broadcasts of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, the New York Rangers, New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League, and the New York Red Bulls of the Major League Soccer. The MSG Network (MSG) is an American regional cable and satellite television network, and radio service owned by MSG Entertainment, Inc.-a spin-off of the main Madison Square Garden Company operation (itself a spin-off of local cable provider Cablevision). cable internet subscribers only requires login from participating providers to stream content some events may not be available due to league rights restrictions) MSG NetworkĪvailable on most other cable systems within broadcast areaĬonsult your local cable provider or program listings source for channel availability For the spin-off channel from 1998 to 2005, see MSG Metro Channels.
For the nationally-distributed network which was called Madison Square Garden Sports Network from 1977 to 1980, see USA Network.
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