NEW YORK — NBC will shut down the NBC Sports Network at the end of the year.
NBC Sports Chairman Pete Bevacqua announced the move in an internal memo to staff.
NBC Sports Network is best known for carrying NHL and English Premier League games as well as NASCAR and IndyCar races.
It also carries a significant amount of programming during the Olympics.
Launched in 1995 as the Outdoor Life Network, the channel gained prominence for its Tour de France coverage and was relaunched in September 2006 as Versus.
When Comcast acquired a majority stake in NBC Unversal in 2011, it was rebranded again as the NBC Sports Network, which is delivered to nearly 80 million homes.
Some NHL games and NASCAR races are expected to move to the USA Network, which is also owned by NBC Universal, according to CNN, while some programming also will shift to the Peacock streaming service next year.
Some English Premier League games already are being offered as streaming-only options on Peacock.
41 Action News Digital Content Producer Tod Palmer contributed to this report.
