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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

BizGilwalker wrote: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 wrote:

BizGilwalker wrote: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.

countryboi wrote: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 wrote:

countryboi wrote: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.

ohara wrote: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 wrote:

ohara wrote: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?