Now, one of the major channels offering sports in shutting down.
NBCSN, also known as NBC Sports Network, will shut down at the end of the year, the company announced Friday, per Deadline. The network first launched as Outdoor Life Network in 1995 and broadcast Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France Wins and was known for a time as Versus before it was relaunched as NBCSN in 2012, which was after Comcast bought NBC Universal.
The network was best known for most of its run for showing NHL hockey, NASCAR, and English Premiere League Soccer, with numerous Americans discovering soccer for the first time once NBCSN got the American rights to the English soccer league in 2012. The channel also showed some of NBC’s Olympic coverage.