HTN Communications LLC (HTN) today announced that DIRECTV Sports Networks, parent company of ROOT SPORTS(TM), has renewed its contract with HTN to provide A/V backhaul services for ROOT SPORTS' away broadcasts of all Pittsburgh Penguins hockey games, as well as Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado Rockies, and Seattle Mariners baseball games. In addition, HTN will now provide full-time connectivity between ROOT SPORTS' regional studios in Pittsburgh, Denver, and Bellevue, Wash., and its master control location, managed by Encompass in Atlanta, to facilitate studio shows as well as pre- and postgame broadcasts.

NEW YORK -- Jan. 12, 2012 -- HTN Communications LLC (HTN) today announced that it has signed a new contract with Altitude Sports & Entertainment to continue providing A/V backhaul services for Altitude's broadcasts of all Denver Nuggets NBA and Colorado ...

Sports and cable TV entrepreneur Joseph Cohen has acquired the Hughes Television Network from GlobeCast for the third time. He previously purchased the company in 1979 and again in 1986. HTN, which provides TV, radio and cable transmission services to sports teams and networks, was the domestic sports group of GlobeCa

The New England Sports Network agreed to three more years of audio/visual services to assist sports coverage.

MSG Networks will continue to use HTN for fiber backhauls.

HTN works with nearly every regional sports network to transfer live compressed signals from the venue to an MC facility.