Officials at NBC Universal have announced the NBC Sports Network – as a stand alone channel – will go dark nationwide on Dec 31, 2021.    The announcement indicates the sports programming will shift to USA Network,  CNBC, and other NBC Universal channels.

This was a national decision, not that of local cable distributors.

NBC Sports was viewed on CSi Channel 63 and HD 125.

In a similar but unrelated announcement,  ESPN announced that they are shutting down the channel ESPN Classic.  In October,  CSi had transitioned from ESPN Classic to ACC Network per the pending shut off of Classic and contractual requirements of ESPN.