 Fox Sports West maintains widespread cable carriage in San Diego County.However, the two major providers in the area, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications, have refused to carry Prime Ticket since its launch in 1997; both cable providers claim that the network has asked for carriage fees they deemed to be too expensive for carriage on their expanded basic tiers.However, Prime Ticket is carried on some former systems that Time Warner Cable acquired in 2006 from Adelphia Communications.