Programming
CSN Bay Area is the main television channel for MLB's San Francisco Giants and the NBA's Golden State Warriors, and also shows select games from MLS's San Jose Earthquakes along with sister network CSN California. The channel also broadcasts college sports, mainly involving the Stanford Cardinal and the California Golden Bears as well as sports involving the Pacific-12, Western Athletic, Mountain West, and West Coast Conferences. Select prep/high school games are also occasionally broadcast.
Until 2004, the network also broadcast games involving the NBA's Sacramento Kings and the WNBA's Sacramento Monarchs. Following the expiration of their contracts with the then-FSN Bay Area, the owners of the Kings and Monarchs went on to create CSN Bay Area's sister station, Comcast SportsNet West (now Comcast SportsNet California). The network was also home to MLB's Oakland Athletics up to the end of the 2008 baseball season, when they also moved to CSN California; similarly, the network was the home of the NHL's San Jose Sharks until the end of the 2008-09 NHL season when they also moved to CSN California. The network also occasionally broadcast games featuring the Arena Football League San Jose Sabercats.
CSN Bay Area carries FSN programming in lieu of an FSN affiliate due to being partially owned by Fox. This offers the regions access to a variety of college sports, notably ACC men's and women's basketball on Sundays, Pac-12 basketball on various nights, plus Big 12 and Pac-12 football on Saturdays during their respective seasons. They also aired studio shows, such as The Best Damn Sports Show Period and the FSN Final Score, and simulcasted radio shows such as The Dan Patrick Show until such programming was inherited by NBC Sports Network. This arrangement was to secure national coverage for its collegiate lineup of games.
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