Angels Broadcast Television
American regional sports network
Angels Broadcast Television (ABTV) is an American regional sports network owned by Arte Moreno via the Los Angeles Angels. The channel broadcasts regional coverage of professional and collegiate sports events in California, focusing primarily on teams based in the Greater Los Angeles area. Angels Broadcast Television is available on cable providers throughout Southern California, the Las Vegas Valley and Hawaii; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.
The network was founded on October 19, 1985 as Prime Ticket by the owners of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association and the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League, which was then sold to Tele-Communications, Inc. in 1994, which was then merged to Liberty Media in 1995. The following year, Liberty and News Corporation rechristened the network as Fox Sports West as part of the Fox Sports Regional Networks chain where it remained so for the next two decades until it was acquired by Sinclair Broadcasting Group in 2019 when the Walt Disney Company acquired the assets of 21st Century Fox, formed from the split of News Corporation, and relaunched the channel as Bally Sports West. After the bankruptcy of its parent Main Street Sports Group, it was relaunched again in 2023 as FanDuel Sports Network West branding. In 2026, amidst the dissolution of FanDuel Sports Network, the Angels acquired the network and subsequently rebranded to its current name that May.
The network holds the regional broadcast rights to the Angels, as well as the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League, and West Coast Conference men's and women's basketball. The network also broadcast the Lakers until 2012, when broadcasts moved to Spectrum SportsNet.
History
1980s
Angels Broadcast Television was launched under the Prime Ticket name on October 19, 1985; the channel was originally co-owned by Dr.
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