Sports Zone

Sports Zone is a daily sports news television program and the flagship program of the Trio Sports Network. Originally broadcast only once daily, Sports Zone is now shown up to twelve times a day, replaying the day's scores, highlights and updates from major sporting events, along with commentary, previews, feature stories, and news stories. Sports Zone is shot at Trio's studio facilities in Stamford, Connecticut and Los Angeles, CA.

Broadcasts
Sports Zone airs live at 5-6 PM with an afternoon edition. Following the end of that day's game, Sports Zone airs again live from 11 PM-12 AM. Also, Sports Zone airs an edition of Sports Zone All Night. Airing live from 1-2 AM, and encoring until 6 AM the next morning. The program also is known to start early and run long, if the preceding game ends ahead of schedule or if breaking news warrants. The 1:00 a.m. Eastern edition of Sports Zone has been broadcast live from Los Angeles since 2009, and repeats throughout the night. Since launching in 2013, Sports Zone 's ratings have been climbing on a steady rate.

History
Sports Zone was conceived in 2013 by Trio Vice President Mark McCain when he was thinking about the flagship for Trio. The first two anchors of Sports Zone were Keith Powell and Barry Deshazer. As the year progressed on, Sports Zone 's ratings started to climb. As the ratings started to climb, Sports Zone helped Trio on their way to being a serious competitor to ESPN, ABN Sports, and FOX Sports 1, as well as various other sports channels.

Sports Zone on VSN
On January 1, 2015, Victory Sports Networks (which is owned by ONE Media Corporation) was launched. To help out with the regional networks, Trio helped produce and launch Sports Zone on VSN. Sports Zone on VSN is just like Sports Zone, but they're only for that particular region, and unlike Sports Zone on Trio, their airtime varies by region.

Sports Zone (5-6 PM)

 * Cathy Malone
 * Joe Smith

Sports Zone (11 PM-12 AM)

 * Keith Powell
 * Barry Deshazer

Sports Zone All Night (1-2 AM. Episodes repeats until 6 AM)

 * Timothy Hudson
 * Jeffrey Payno