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Mid-Atlantic Sports Network and RCN Reach Carriage Agreement; Nationals Games and MASN Now Available to RCN Cable Subscribers Starting with Tonight's Nationals-Brewers Game at 7 PM.


WASHINGTON -- The Mid-Atlantic Sports Network Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) is a team-owned regional sports network that televises both Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles games in the mid-Atlantic region (Harrisburg, PA to Charlotte, NC) and 200 NCAA football, basketball, and lacrosse games for a total of 520  (MASN MASN Mid-Atlantic Sports Network
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) and RCN-DC (formerly known as Starpower) today announced a carriage agreement that will present Washington Nationals This article is about the current Major League Baseball team. For other uses, see Washington Nationals (disambiguation).
The Washington Nationals are a professional baseball team based in Washington DC.
 games and MASN to RCN RCN n abbr (= Royal Canadian Navy) → kanadische Marine  Cable subscribers. The announcement was made by Bob Whitelaw, Executive Vice President & General Manager of MASN, and Richard Wadman, Vice President & General Manager of RCN-DC.

Starting with tonight's MASN telecast of the Nationals versus the Milwaukee Brewers, RCN Cable TV customers will receive all MASN-televised Nationals games.

RCN-DC serves more than 185,000 households in Washington, DC, the City of Falls Church Falls Church, independent city (1990 pop. 9,578), NE Va., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; inc. as a town 1875, as a city 1948. There is diverse light manufacturing, including telecommunications equipment. , VA, Southern Montgomery County, MD and Gaithersburg, MD. The Nationals games will be seen on RCN channel 8.

"This is more great news for metropolitan-area Nationals fans," said Whitelaw. "We want to thank RCN for realizing the value of MASN and commend RCN for caring about their customers and Nationals fans throughout their service territory."

"RCN prides itself on connecting its customers to something more," stated Wadman. "So we are very excited to connect our Washington, DC-area customers to Nationals baseball on RCN channel 8, starting with tonight's game."

Added Nationals President Tony Tavares: "A little over two weeks ago, we had our first satellite deal -- today, we have our first cable deal thanks to RCN. Now even more fans of the Nationals can see all the team's games throughout the Washington area."

About RCN:

RCN Corporation, http://www.rcn.com, is one of the largest facilities-based competitive providers of bundled phone, cable and high-speed Internet services delivered over its own fiber-optic local network to consumers in the most densely populated markets in the U.S. RCN provides service in the Boston, New York Boston is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 7,897 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Boston, Massachusetts.

The Town of Boston is an interior town of the county and one of the county's "Southtowns.
, Eastern Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles metropolitan markets.

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