SportSouth Hornets

[JDR720]

SportSouth, a FOX Sports regional network, and the Charlotte Hornets today announced the network will televise 80 regular-season games in the first season of the Hornets return to the Carolinas. With two games scheduled on national television, every Charlotte Hornets game will be televised during the 2014-15 regular season.

The Hornets games on SportSouth will reach more than 3.5 million households across the Carolinas through most programming distributors, including Time Warner Cable, AT&T UVerse, Charter Communications, DIRECTV, and DISH Network.

Steve Martin, who has been the play-by-play voice since the original Charlotte Hornets, returns for the 2014-15 season. Joining Martin is analyst Dell Curry,a former standout from the original Charlotte Hornets franchise, returning for his sixth season. Courtside reporter Stephanie Ready returns for her 11th season.

Hornets LIVE!, SportSouth’s 30-minute pregame and postgame show, will air before and after every game. Ready will host Hornets LIVE! along with contributions from Martin and Curry.

The Hornets will tip off the NBA regular season at home on Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 7:00 p.m. ET against the No. 2 overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft Jabari Parker and the Milwaukee Bucks. Other highlights from the SportSouth schedule include two games against the 2013-14 NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs, two games against reigning NBA MVP Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder, and three games against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
http://www.nba.com/hornets/sportsouth-h ... v-schedule

Good to see the crew back.

[HornetJail]

Is that 3.5M households figure any bigger than in previous years? I live in the Charlotte area now, but Columbia didn't get Bobcats coverage all the years I was there, and it was a pain in the ass to find decent pie.

Kinda disappointed we don't get more than two nationally televised games though. Oh well, we'll probably have 20+ of them in the postseason

[JDR720]

Is that 3.5M households figure any bigger than in previous years? I live in the Charlotte area now, but Columbia didn't get Bobcats coverage all the years I was there, and it was a pain in the ass to find decent pie.

Kinda disappointed we don't get more than two nationally televised games though. Oh well, we'll probably have 20+ of them in the postseason

Not sure, but 3.5 million is still pretty terrible. Thats only about 1/3 of NC's population.

[HornetJail]

Is that 3.5M households figure any bigger than in previous years? I live in the Charlotte area now, but Columbia didn't get Bobcats coverage all the years I was there, and it was a pain in the ass to find decent pie.

Kinda disappointed we don't get more than two nationally televised games though. Oh well, we'll probably have 20+ of them in the postseason

Not sure, but 3.5 million is still pretty terrible. Thats only about 1/3 of NC's population.

And it's 3.5 across the carolinas.
NC has 9.5M people and SC has another 4.6. 3.5M is roughly 1/4 of the Carolinas. It's not like Columbia gets Atlanta Hawks coverage either, they just don't really get anything. Can't speak for western SC near Clemson or Aiken, which are closer to ATL, but we've got to hope we can get a TV deal down to at least Columbia.

[yosemiteben]

Really surprised there wasn't a new TV deal announced by the Hornets with the name change. They really need to increase their availability - it's leaving a lot of potentially interested fans out in the cold.

[Hornet Mania]

Definitely need to get a new TV deal asap. Best to do it while the new car smell is still on the rebrand.

I think it's incredibly stupid that when I lived in Greensboro I had to use the same method (streaming online) to watch games as I do now living halfway across the world in Austria.

[countryboi]

they need to work out something to show the games on local tv...what is a cordcutter to do? I could get NBA broadband with the new blackout rules but the service sucks

[yosemiteben]

they need to work out something to show the games on local tv...what is a cordcutter to do? I could get NBA broadband with the new blackout rules but the service sucks

I live in Charlotte and was actually planning on cutting cable once the Panthers season is over (hopefully in February right?) and using NBA game time on the Roku.

I just learned that that's not an option. So annoying.

[JDR720]

Just doing a little research......Charlotte's Metro population is about 2.3 million (per 2013 census). So that means that the current TV deal only reaches about 1.2 million people outside of the metro

The Metro

[countryboi]

they need to work out something to show the games on local tv...what is a cordcutter to do? I could get NBA broadband with the new blackout rules but the service sucks

I live in Charlotte and was actually planning on cutting cable once the Panthers season is over (hopefully in February right?) and using NBA game time on the Roku.

I just learned that that's not an option. So annoying.

I am thinking about looking in to ball streams.com it's been around for a few years and comes pretty highly endorsed on reddit. It seems to be better quality and cheaper than nba game time.

[tondi123]

Last season was the first in years I got their games on SS. They were always listed but it was always some other obscure sporting event. I hope since I had their games last year I will be getting them again this year.

[Liver_Pooty]

Nothing like some good ol home cooked pie.

[ohara]

Here in the Upstate of SC, the Guide for Charter Communications would say we would be getting the Charlotte games, but something else would play. And often, the station was playing Atlanta teams on the network. I cannot get excited about it until the season starts and I actually see the games. Down the regular season stretch, about 3 weeks, another local channel was carrying the Bobcat games.

[Liver_Pooty]

Here in the Upstate of SC, the Guide for Charter Communications would say we would be getting the Charlotte games, but something else would play. And often, the station was playing Atlanta teams on the network. I cannot get excited about it until the season starts and I actually see the games. Down the regular season stretch, about 3 weeks, another local channel was carrying the Bobcat games.

Charter started showing the games for me last season. It not work for you?

[BeesWax]

I guess I am lucky and have always gotten the games.

[LamarMatic7]

It seems simply ridiculous to me that some of you guys live in the Carolinas, yet can't get our games at home. And this has been a problem for the whole history of the franchise. For an outsider like me, I would have thought that in the great USA, home of the entertainment world, you wouldn't have such problems.

[ohara]

Here in the Upstate of SC, the Guide for Charter Communications would say we would be getting the Charlotte games, but something else would play. And often, the station was playing Atlanta teams on the network. I cannot get excited about it until the season starts and I actually see the games. Down the regular season stretch, about 3 weeks, another local channel was carrying the Bobcat games.

Charter started showing the games for me last season. It not work for you?

Nope. Local channel WMYA showed them for the last 3 weeks as it became clear we were a playoff contender. Never got them on the station where advertised.

[Makaveli92]

I live in the Rocky Mount/Tarboro area, and I got Bobcat games last season on SuddenLink digital cable. Was suprised we could get them tbh. I was just going through the channels one night, and came across a game.

I got DirecTV now, not sure if i'll be able to get the games this season, we'll see.

[Ozymandias]

The article states 3.5 million households. That doesn't exactly mean 3.5 million people.

[Roll Tide 09]

Is there a way for me to get it here in Alabama? Or whenever I'm back in Alabama (Birmingham)?