CBS Sports Network - Programming

Programming

Since airing that first game, CBS Sports Network has televised thousands of hours of original programming, features, talk shows and documentaries as well as extensive women’s sports coverage. Its regular-season and championship event coverage draws from every major collegiate athletic conference and division, in addition to nine NCAA championships. CBS Sports Network televises 35 men’s and women’s college sports including football, basketball, baseball, Ultimate Frisbee, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, wrestling and volleyball from every major conference. The network holds multi-media and marketing rights for the Mountain West Conference, the Atlantic 10 Conference, Conference USA, the Big West Conference, the Patriot League, the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Army football, and Navy athletics.

In April 2006, the network organized the first Collegiate Nationals, a festival of championships dedicated to crowning champions in a wide variety of collegiate action sports such as snowboarding, wakeboarding, and beach volleyball. More than 1,000 competitors converged on Reno-Tahoe to compete, the largest number ever for an event of its kind. For its second installment in 2007, the Collegiate Nationals added sports and other events such as national film and music competitions, as well as a second venue – San Diego. The third year, 2008, brought further changes, as the winter sports events were moved to the Keystone Resort near Boulder, Colorado and competitive eating was added.

In the fall of 2006, CSTV and Comcast launched the MountainWest Sports Network (colloquially known as The Mtn.), a network focusing exclusively on the Mountain West Conference. The relation with the network also gave CSTV exclusive online and broadcasting rights to Notre Dame's game at Air Force on November 11, 2006—which caused controversy since CSTV did not have carriage as wide as the other networks which have aired Notre Dame games. The Irish have not visited a Mountain West team since.

On November 14, 2011, the National Lacrosse League announced that it had reached a two-year agreement with CBS Sports Network to televise eight regular-season and postseason games for the 2012 and 2013 seasons. The acquisition gives CBS Sports Network its first professional sports broadcast rights.

April 3, 2012 saw the premiere of Rome, a self-titled sports news and talk program hosted by nationally syndicated radio host Jim Rome. Rome had recently left ESPN and his previous show, Jim Rome Is Burning, after signing on a new contract with CBS Sports.

On June 7, 2012, CBS Sports Network began to air the remaining games of the American Hockey League's 2012 Calder Cup Final between the Norfolk Admirals and the Toronto Marlies, starting with Game 3.

On July 26, 2012, the network signed a deal with the United Football League to televise its games for the 2012 season. The United Football League is a second-tier professional football league that began play in October 2009. The UFL pays for all production expenses and receives no rights fee from CBS Sports Network for the broadcasts. The league lasted approximately four weeks on CBS Sports Network before suspending operations halfway through its 2012 season.

In August 2012, CBS Sports Network began to offer coverage of tennis's US Open, including classic matches, coverage of qualifying matches, a pre-game show, and coverage of third and fourth round matches not shown by CBS.

On August 30, 2012, the network signed a deal with the NBA Development League to televise 12 regular games, as well as the 2013 NBA D-League Playoffs and Finals.

The network will televise nineteen regular season and two playoff games from the Arena Football League in 2013 and 2014. The ArenaBowl will air on CBS.