Catch 47

About Catch 47

Catch 47 is a 24-hour regional sports network in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. The station began in 2004 and is owned by Bright House Networks, seen exclusively on their systems on cable channel 47.

Programs include "The Toyota Sports Connection," a nightly show featuring scores, highlights and interviews, "Lightning Strikes" with host Joe Girvan, "The Baysball Show", "Beef 'O' Brady's High School Scoreboard", "Hooked on Fishing", "Press Box" and "Xtra Point." The station also televises basketball, baseball, and softball games of the University of South Florida, as well as baseball games in the Florida State League. Catch 47 also broadcasts most home games and an occasional road game of the Arena Football League's Tampa Bay Storm. The announcing team for Storm games generally consists of Drew Fellios and former NFL punter Mark Royals.

On March 25, 2007, SportsNet New York (a similar regional sports network in the New York metropolitan area) re-aired Catch 47's coverage of a Storm-New York Dragons game from two days earlier. SNY opted to broadcast the game straight from the Catch 47 broadcast, neither editing any part of the coverage (aside from commercials), nor dubbing the game with SNY's own announcers.