MSG Network said it will run a concert film featuring the Eagles in the weeks leading up to the band’s performance at Madison Square Garden.

The Eagles will be returning to the Garden on Aug. 22 and 24 and are planning to play all of their Hotel California album accompanied by an orchestra and choir. The band will follow that with a set of its greatest hits.

MSG Network will be playing the Eagles concert film Live from The Forum MMXVIII starting Friday. It will appear nine more times on either MSG or MSG Plus.

Fans will have the opportunity to win two tickets to the Aug. 24th show by visiting MSGNetworks.com/EaglesSweeps. If they answer a trivia question about Live From The Forum MMXVIII, they can enter the sweepstakes.

A Scheme Engine production directed by Nick Wickham, Live From The Forum MMXVIII was filmed on 14 4K cameras and captures live performances of some of the band’s most iconic hits, (Hotel California, One of These Nights, Lyin’ Eyes, Desperado), and beloved album tracks, (Ol’ 55, Those Shoes), along with some of the individual members’ biggest solo smashes, such as Don Henley’s Boys Of Summer, Joe Walsh’s Rocky Mountain Way, and Vince Gill’s Don’t Let Our Love Start Slippin’ Away.

MSG Network is kicking off its "MSG Shorts" programming block tonight (Oct. 27) with an episode of the Complex Networks online series Sneaker Shopping, featuring Logic (pictured), after the postgame show that follows the New York Knicks game against the Brooklyn Nets. The hourlong block of short-form programming (2 to 20 minute segments) is new and will feature original and acquired content, such as this licensing deal with Complex Networks, along with player interviews and behind-scenes footage.

Other Sneaker Shopping episodes slated to air after certain Knicks and New York Rangers' coverage include ones with Allen Iverson, Jimmy Butler, Deion Sanders and the Ball Family, the networks said. Tonight's launch episode is scheduled to start at approximately 10:30, MSG said. (An earlier version of this item had the incorrect time.)

Complex Networks, whose other programming includes Hot Ones, is owned by Verizon and Hearst and provides shows for sites such as Rated Red and Verizon's Go90 mobile service. It recently struck a deal with Fuse Media that will see a 90-minute programming block start on the Fuse TV channel in November.  

The sneaker-centric profile show is hosted by Complex Networks' VP of content strategy Joe La Puma and averages "nearly 2 million views per episode on Complex.com and YouTube."

Two months after being purchased by cable veteran Rocco Commisso, the New York Cosmos have secured a regional TV deal for their spring games, which will be shown on New York independent station WPIX and MSG Networks.

The club’s NASL home opener against Miami FC at MCU Park on April 1 will be broadcast on Tribune Media’s flagship New York station, WPIX, Channel 11. According to the team, the game marks the first time the Cosmos will play live on broadcast television in over 30 years.  

MSG Networks will kick off their Cosmos coverage on April 8, with a match against Miami FC at FIU Stadium in Miami.  MSG Networks will carry a total of 13 of the club’s games during the spring season.

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"Television is a critically important piece to building and sustaining a successful professional sports brand,” said Cosmos’ Chief Operating Officer Erik Stover in a statement. “With WPIX and MSG, we have found two exceptional partners to help bring the fun and excitement of Cosmos’ games to millions of homes in the New York metropolitan area.”

In addition to the regional coverage on WPIX and MSG Networks, a number of Cosmos games will be available through the national television deal expected to be announced by the NASL before the spring season starts later in March.  The Cosmos local television schedule for the fall season will be announced later in the year.  

Cosmos games had originally been shown on pay TV network One World Sports – its former owner was a partner in the firm that owns the network. One World Sports has fallen on hard times recently, but is expected to announce a deal with U.K. sports network Eleven Sports later in the week.

Commisso, the founder, chairman and CEO of Mediacom Communications, agreed to purchase the Cosmos in January. Since buying the team, Commisso has managed to secure its leadership, pay back wages to players and front office personnel and find a new home for the club – Brooklyn’s MCU Park. He had said in the past that striking a TV deal was on the agenda, but was a lower priority. With those major hurdles cleared, the time was ripe to strike a TV agreement.

"MSG Networks is proud to be the regional home of Cosmos soccer,” said MSG Network’s Vice President of Content Distribution and Affiliate Partnerships Armando Polanco in a statement. "It's a new era for the legendary American club and we are excited to watch the Cosmos defend their NASL title."

Robert Rosencrans, founder of UA-Columbia Cable and one of the pioneers in cable programming through the creation of the Madison Square Garden Network, later renamed USA Network, and one of the driving forces behind the creation of C-SPAN, died in Greenwich, Conn., earlier this week. He was 89 years old.

According to the Cable Center, Rosencrans first came on the cable scene in 1953, producing and distributing live television events to theaters and hotels through Box Office Television and later TelePrompTer Corp. In 1956, while planning the distribution of a heavyweight championship fight, Rosencrans granted a license to Bill Daniels to offer the fight to his cable customers in Casper, Wyo.,  a first for the cable business and the beginning of a collaboration that led to TelePrompTer purchasing several cable systems.

Rosencrans formed Columbia Cable Systems in 1961, acquiring systems in Washington, Oregon, Arizona, and California, eventually growing it to more than 250,000 customers.

Columbia Cable was the first operator to install a satellite Earth Station to receive the feed of the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier heavyweight championship fight from Manila in 1975.

Two years later in 1977 Columbia set off on a venture to offer satellite delivered cable programming to the industry, joining with Madison Square Garden  to distribute its live events. The Madison Square Garden Network, later renamed the USA Network, was the first proprietary satellite basic cable network, according to the Cable Center.

MSG Network was one of the first channels to carry a fledging public service network, the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN), which broadcast live coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives. Rosencrans became the founding chairman of C-SPAN and an integral force in the network’s development.

Rosencrans wrote one of the first checks – for $25,000 – in support of C-SPAN, and convinced other cable operators to do the same. According to C-SPAN, Rosencrans helped C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb raise $450,000 in seed money which was used to create the infrastructure to send out the first live views of the U.S. House of Representatives on March 19, 1979 to 3.5 million homes served by 350 cable systems.

"I've never met a person who didn't respect Bob Rosencrans,” Lamb said in a statement. “He was not only interested in being a successful business person, but he was very interested in civic responsibility; he was conscious of the need to help others. Bob helped me tremendously by explaining to a start-up cable industry that it made sense for a network like C-SPAN to have a place.  He never wanted any personal credit for it, but if it hadn't been for Bob Rosencrans, there probably wouldn't be a C-SPAN. Bob was a tremendous human being."

Rosencrans sold Columbia Cable and its  500,000 customers to UA Theaters and Rogers Cable in 1984 and later that year he founded Columbia International, developing systems in Virginia, Michigan, Oregon, Washington and Nevada. Columbia International  was sold to Tele-Communications Inc., Cox and Jones Intercable in 1996. Rosencrans remained active with C-SPAN, serving as chairman emeritus and was elected to the Cable Hall of Fame in 1999.  

In a statement, the National Cable Telecommunications Association shared in C-SPAN's loss, adding that Rosencrans was a major architect in what became the modern cable industry. 

"Bob embodied the cable entrepreneur, investing time, money and sweat equity in the creation of products and services that have become vital to consumers," NCTA said in a statement. "His work with Brian Lamb and other colleagues, to create, build, and launch C-SPAN, was perhaps his most resonant and impactful achievement. He also, however, was a catalyst in creating first-generation cable content, in sports, general entertainment, premium entertainment, and information. And he built and managed many early cable systems that became precursors to today’s life-changing television and Internet infrastructure.  A major supporter of NCTA and our industry’s business and policy objectives, Bob Rosencrans epitomized the entrepreneurial spirit that forged our industry and helped change the way that Americans connect, communicate, learn, and are entertained.  We are indebted to his life’s work, and we offer sincere condolences to his family and friends."    

The Rosencrans family will hold private services this weekend with plans to hold a memorial service at a later date this fall.  

As the Knicks get ready for their season opener against the Chicago Bulls and the sounding of “Go New York, Go New York Go” theme song tonight, MSG Network is poised to go the in-market streaming route.

Beginning in December, MSG Networks said that authenticated Cablevision subscribers to its regional sports channel, MSG Network, will be able to watch Knicks games and related fare on computers, tablets and smartphones via its MSG GO platform at no additional cost. MSG GO will enable Cablevision’s subscribers to watch the RSN action inside and outside of their residences, as well as if they leave the Knicks' TV territory.

In announcing MSG GO, officials at the programmer indicated that it was in negotiations with other distributors to enable the TVE gambit for Knicks games. Cablevision, MSG’s former parent company, remains the largest pay-TV distributor in the metro New York area, where fans of the orange and blue hope that Carmelo Anthony (pictured) and the rest of his teammates master the triangle offense this season.

“We are thrilled to offer MSG GO to Knicks fans,” said Andrea Greenberg, executive vice president, MSG Media. 'MSG GO provides our fans the great convenience of watching our content throughout their home or on-the-go.”

With the bow of MSG GO, MSGN will join Fox Sports regional networks, and Time Warner Cable’s SportsNet, which carries Los Angeles Lakers games, in affording a TVE streaming experience to verified subscribers in the attendant NBA teams' TV territories, and beyond.

Time Warner Cable SportsNet has been offering a TVE play since it bowed with the 2012-13 NBA campaign, while Fox, after testing the service via its Fox Sports Go app with six clubs and a handful of distributors last season, is committed to launching in-market streaming with its 17 regionals that hold NBA team media rights during the 2014-15 season. Comcast’s NBC Sports Group is also expected to enter the in-market streaming arena shortly.

MSGN subscribers with a supported smartphone or tablet can download the free MSG GO app by visiting the App Store or the Google Play store.  On computers, customers may visit MSGGo.com.