Bears, ABC-27 Announce First Portion of Television Broadcast Schedule
December 3, 2013 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Hershey Bears News Release
HERSHEY, Pa. - The Hershey Bears Hockey Club, in conjunction with ABC-27, today announced two games that will be broadcast to fans across central Pennsylvania. The announcement was made by Bears President/GM Doug Yingst.
ABC-27 kicks off the broadcast schedule next Wednesday, December 11 from Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena in Binghamton, New York. The Bears will battle the Binghamton Senators in the teams' fifth of ten season matchups with faceoff set for 7:05 PM. For the third season, "Voice of the Bears" Scott Stuccio will provide game play-by-play, while ABC-27 sports director Gregg Mace will again provide in-game analysis and special features to air during intermissions.
The channel lineup and preliminary game broadcast schedule is as follows, and is subject to change:
CHANNEL LINEUP:
ABC-27's RTV Channel 27.2
Comcast Channel 246
Verizon Fios Channel 461
Blue Ridge Cable Channel 152
Kuhn Communications Channel 67
DATE AIR TIME OPPONENT VENUE
Wed. December 11, 2013 7:00 PM Binghamton Senators Broome County VM Arena
Fri. January 24, 2014 7:00 PM Syracuse Crunch Onondaga Co. War Memorial Arena
Giant Food Stores LLC and Capital BlueCross will proudly present the broadcasts to central Pennsylvania viewers in 2013-14.
The Bears and ABC-27 also announce that five more games will be added to the schedule upon confirmation from host teams. The announcement will be made in the coming days.
ABC-27, which carried the 2013 Capital BlueCross AHL Outdoor Classic last January and portions of the 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010 Calder Cup Finals, has been the proud flagship television station of the Hershey Bears for over 13 years.
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