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Network Reclaims Old Name.

Multichannel News, October, 2006 by Reynolds, Mike

By Mike Reynolds RSN Aims To Provide An Insider's View Serving Local Clubs The name may be old, but SportSouth wants to put a new face - one with a lot more local lines - on its coverage. Five months after it secured Turner South from Turner Broadcasting System Inc. for $375 million, Fox Cable Networks will unveil the SportSouth moniker on Oct.

13 with the regional sports network's presentation of the National Hockey League Atlanta Thrashers' game against the defending Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes at 7:30 p.m. As Turner South, the network had grown to reach more than 8 million subscribers in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and central/western North Carolina. But the SportSouth name harkens back to...

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