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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.
It was a quick rebrand and happened with little to no fanfare. Viewers of Root Sports Pittsburgh and Root Sportse Southwest noticed a new bug in the right hand corner of the TV screen. Instead of the familiar âRoot Sportsâ logo in the upper right, it was a new âAT&T Sports Networksâ bug.