Will Root Sports be covering the new Pens games?

[SLF66]

Does anyone know whether Root Sports will be able to broadcast all of the Pens non national broadcasts this year?

Im guessing thats a big YES but it is still not listed anywhere

[Kovy27]

Don't know if you are actually serious that the TV HOME of the Penguins is carrying the games or not.

[SLF66]

Let me repeat. Will Root Sports being televising ALL non nationally broadcasted games this season?

[skullman80]

I think it would be safe to assume so.

[netwolf]

ROOT was going to have all of them outside of national TV exclusives before the lockout, so I have no reason to believe that won't be the case now.

[tfrizz]

ROOT has all by 7 games that'll be aired by NBC (4 on NBC + 3 on NBCSN)

http://pittsburgh.rootsports.com/ViewAr ... R_CONTENT=


Penguins' schedule on Google Calendar

[DocEmrick]

Excited to see change-ups with the new director from HNIC

[Fire0nice228]

ROOT has all by 7 games that'll be aired by NBC (4 on NBC + 3 on NBCSN)

http://pittsburgh.rootsports.com/ViewAr ... R_CONTENT=


Penguins' schedule on Google Calendar

So the pens have only 3 games on Versus? or whatever its called now. Thats great, for some reason I dont have it in my DirecTV anymore.. had it last year.

[Digitalgypsy66]

Believe it or not, there are NHL teams who don't have local broadcasts of all 82 games. Hurricanes are definitely one such team, and I think the Blackhawks were another prior to the Cup team.

[MDion.]

Believe it or not, there are NHL teams who don't have local broadcasts of all 82 games. Hurricanes are definitely one such team, and I think the Blackhawks were another prior to the Cup team.

Florida is another team.
A few years ago i believe the Canucks and Oilers did not broadcast all their games.Either that or they were on a ppv.

[hoser66]

ROOT has all by 7 games that'll be aired by NBC (4 on NBC + 3 on NBCSN)

http://pittsburgh.rootsports.com/ViewAr ... R_CONTENT=


Penguins' schedule on Google Calendar

So the pens have only 3 games on Versus? or whatever its called now. Thats great, for some reason I dont have it in my DirecTV anymore.. had it last year.

Versus is now NBC Sports Network and it is on channel 220 on DirecTV.
Also if you are NOTin the Pittsburgh Market and the game is on Root Sports as well as NHL Network or NBC Sports Network it will only be shown on NHL Network or NBC Sports Network. Set your Tivo accordingly.

[Dickie Dunn]

Believe it or not, there are NHL teams who don't have local broadcasts of all 82 games. Hurricanes are definitely one such team, and I think the Blackhawks were another prior to the Cup team.

The Blackhawks never had home games televised until the middle of the 2007 season. Six weeks after their old-as-dirt and obviously out of touch with reality fanbase destroying owner died, his son took over the team and they started airing home games.

I remember when I was younger and the Penguins had their ridiculous pay-per-view channel for a few home games. Only lasted a couple years, most likely because everyone I knew just gave the broadcast the Playboy channel treatment and watched it scrambled.

[MDion.]

I remember when I was younger and ..........

Pressing my ear to the transistor radio while Bob Prince yelled in my ear.
"we got it, now they got it, now we got it"

[MRandall25]

ROOT has all by 7 games that'll be aired by NBC (4 on NBC + 3 on NBCSN)

http://pittsburgh.rootsports.com/ViewAr ... R_CONTENT=


Penguins' schedule on Google Calendar

So the pens have only 3 games on Versus? or whatever its called now. Thats great, for some reason I dont have it in my DirecTV anymore.. had it last year.

No, the Pens have 11 games on NBCSN: http://penguins.nhl.com/club/schedule.htm

[owtahear]

Will they? I doubt it. I mean, I wouldn't think the Pens would get better ratings than the MMA, Trash Sports, Retrospectives that they currently had to fill the slots with, do you?

Ahem...................

[DocEmrick]

It wasn't long ago when FSN didn't broadcast every single Pens game either.

[MDion.]

No, the Pens have 11 games on NBCSN: http://penguins.nhl.com/club/schedule.htm

I think most of those games will be on ROOT too. I think only 3 are exclusive to Versus.
If you have ROOT they will be blacked out on Versus.

[nocera]

ROOT has all by 7 games that'll be aired by NBC (4 on NBC + 3 on NBCSN)

http://pittsburgh.rootsports.com/ViewAr ... R_CONTENT=


Penguins' schedule on Google Calendar

So the pens have only 3 games on Versus? or whatever its called now. Thats great, for some reason I dont have it in my DirecTV anymore.. had it last year.

No, the Pens have 11 games on NBCSN: http://penguins.nhl.com/club/schedule.htm

You mean OLN?

[tfrizz]

ROOT has all by 7 games that'll be aired by NBC (4 on NBC + 3 on NBCSN)

http://pittsburgh.rootsports.com/ViewAr ... R_CONTENT=


Penguins' schedule on Google Calendar

So the pens have only 3 games on Versus? or whatever its called now. Thats great, for some reason I dont have it in my DirecTV anymore.. had it last year.

No, the Pens have 11 games on NBCSN: http://penguins.nhl.com/club/schedule.htm

My understanding is that the other 4 games aren't exclusive because they're part of NBC's "flex scheduling" where they have until 13 days prior to the game to decide whether they'll air it or not.

[Factorial]

ROOT has all by 7 games that'll be aired by NBC (4 on NBC + 3 on NBCSN)

http://pittsburgh.rootsports.com/ViewAr ... R_CONTENT=


Penguins' schedule on Google Calendar

So the pens have only 3 games on Versus? or whatever its called now. Thats great, for some reason I dont have it in my DirecTV anymore.. had it last year.

No, the Pens have 11 games on NBCSN: http://penguins.nhl.com/club/schedule.htm

You mean OLN?

No, he means KBL.

[jprolley]

Yes. Gone are the days of Saturday night Pens games on UPN or the CW, thank God.

[PghSkins]

I remember when I was younger and the Penguins had their ridiculous pay-per-view channel for a few home games. Only lasted a couple years, most likely because everyone I knew just gave the broadcast the Playboy channel treatment and watched it scrambled.

PENS VISION!

[Kovy27]

Holy ****. I can't believe this was even questioned. Pittsburgh gets the one of the highest ratings for hockey in the country and Root isn't going to cover it? WTF is this, the Pirates?