Although doing taxes independently using tax software saves money over hiring an accountant, the costs of hiring an accountant is also beneficial to the individual. Accountants prepare tax returns with much more sophisticated software, compared to software sold to consumers.
Root Sports was launched in 1989 as Northwest Cable Sports, a network owned by King Broadcasting Company. In 1991, King Broadcasting sold Northwest Cable Sports and its other media properties to The Providence Journal Company, which sold the network to Liberty Media in 1992.
Baseball fans, and Northwest sports fans in general, should also know that ROOT SPORTS carries Seattle Mariners games during the season through the company owners, DIRECT Sports Networks. DIRECT Sports is a subsidary of DIRECTV and operates three ROOT SPORTS outlets based in Bellevue WA., Denver CO., and Pittsburgh PA and those outlets are broadcast in 18 states, including Alaska.