{"id":240143,"date":"2021-12-30T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=240143"},"modified":"2021-12-30T15:25:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T21:25:35","slug":"nbc-sports-network-to-go-dark-dec-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=240143","title":{"rendered":"NBC Sports Network to go dark Dec 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials at NBC Universal have announced the NBC Sports Network &#8211; as a stand alone channel &#8211; will go dark nationwide on Dec 31, 2021.\u00a0 \u00a0 The announcement indicates the sports programming will shift to USA Network,\u00a0 CNBC, and other NBC Universal channels.<\/p>\n<p>This was a national decision, not that of local cable distributors.<\/p>\n<p>NBC Sports was viewed on CSi Channel 63 and HD 125.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar but unrelated announcement,\u00a0 ESPN announced that they are shutting down the channel ESPN Classic.\u00a0 In October,\u00a0 CSi had transitioned from ESPN Classic to ACC Network per the pending shut off of Classic and contractual requirements of ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials at NBC Universal have announced the NBC Sports Network &#8211; as a stand alone channel &#8211; will go dark nationwide on Dec 31, 2021.\u00a0 \u00a0 The announcement indicates the sports programming will shift to USA Network,\u00a0 CNBC, and other NBC Universal channels. This was a national decision, not that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":93706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240145,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240143\/revisions\/240145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}