AHL Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins

Penguins Team Up With My Network TV, FOX 56

Published on August 17, 2007 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins News Release


WILKES-BARRE, PA - The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins will be teaming up with My Network TV (WQMY TV) and Fox 56 (WOLF TV) to broadcast 13 home contests during the 2007-2008 American Hockey League season, it was announced today by Penguins President Rich Hixon.

The Penguins and My Network TV/Fox 56 will produce a minimum of 13 games, up from 10 in each of the past two seasons. All Penguins home Saturday contests will be shown live on WQMY-TV, with the exception of the Saturday, February 2 game, which is tentatively scheduled to run on Fox 56. Tom Grace handling the play-by-play duties and all games will be simulcast on QFM 92.1.

"We are very excited about this new working partnership with My Network TV," said Hixon. "Not only will there be more games broadcast this season than the last two, but WQMY's reach across the region means more than half a million area residents will be able to view the Penguins from the comfort of their own homes.

"Additionally, the ability to promote the Penguins across three stations (WQMY, WOLF and WSWB) provides us with expanded coverage that we think all area hockey fans have been craving."

The first televised game will take place on Saturday, October 6, when the Penguins play host to the Syracuse Crunch at 7:05pm, and the schedule will wrap up with the Pens' final game of the regular season on April 12 against the Norfolk Admirals. The full schedule of live broadcasts follows.

In addition to the 13 regular season broadcasts, the Penguins and WQMY will produce a half hour season preview show, tentatively scheduled to run beginning on October 2. WQMY will also carry the 2008 AHL All-Star Skills Competition and AHL All-Star Game live from Binghamton, NY on January 27 and 28.

"We're thrilled by this announcement," said Michael Yanuzzi, president of New Age Media, the Wilkes-Barre company that recently purchased WQMY as part of a multi-station purchase this past April. "Our goal as a company is to localize our stations with sports, news and other community oriented projects. This announcement is a major step towards those goals."

"This joint venture between the Penguins and My Network TV WQMY-TV is the perfect collaboration of one of this area's most popular sports franchises and the station which carries more sports than any other broadcaster in the market," said Jon Cadman, general manager of WQMY-TV. "WQMY is carried on every major cable system in Northeast PA except Comcast. It is our hope that Comcast will soon agree to carry our free broadcast signal to their cable subscribers."

My Network TV WQMY is the My Network TV affiliate in Northeast & Central PA market, which serves over 500,000 households in the Nations 53rd largest television market. Along with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and My Net programming, My Network TV WQMY broadcasts some of the top syndicated shows, Big Ten/Big East Basketball and Football along with Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees baseball, Philadelphia Flyers hockey and Philadelphia 76ers basketball games.

Full season ticket packages, partial ticket plans, and the special ‘Bonvie Brigade' ticket packages are on sale now, and available by calling 570-208-7367.

FULL 2007-2008 PENGUINS/My Network TV BROADCAST SCHEDULE

DATE OPPONENT TIME

Saturday, October 6 Syracuse Crunch 7:05pm

Saturday, October 13 Philadelphia Phantoms 7:05pm

Saturday, October 27 Binghamton Senators 7:05pm

Saturday, November 3 Norfolk Admirals 7:05pm

Saturday, December 22 Albany River Rats 7:05pm

Saturday, December 29 Binghamton Senators 7:05pm

Saturday, January 12 Philadelphia Phantoms 7:05pm

Sunday, January 27 AHL ALL-STAR SKILLS COMP TBA

Monday, January 28 AHL ALL-STAR GAME TBA

Saturday, February 2 Norfolk Admirals 3:05pm*

Saturday, February 9 Hershey Bears 7:05pm

Saturday, March 1 Philadelphia Phantoms 7:05pm

Saturday, March 22 Providence Bruins 7:05pm

Saturday, April 5 Philadelphia Phantoms 7:05pm

Saturday, April 12 Norfolk Admirals 7:05pm

* Game scheduled to be carried on WOLF Fox 56

WHERE YOU CAN WATCH WQMY My Network TV

Cable Company Channel

Service Electric Cable Wilkes-Barre 4

Service Electric Cable Hazelton 8

Service Electric Cable Shamokin 14

Service Electric Cable Sunbury 14

Service Electric Co. Delano and Mahanoy 98

Blue Ridge Cable Stroudsburg 16

Blue Ridge Cable Lehighton 16

Blue Ridge Cable Tunkhannock 8

Beaver Valley Cable 9

CATV Danville 11

Commuter East 11

Herr Cable 8

Adams Cable 18

Metrocast 8

Shen-Heights TV 11

WQMY is also available over the air on channel 53 and on digital channel 56.3. All cable companies in Northeast and Central Pennsylvania can pick up WQMY for FREE. If your cable company is not listed above, call them and ask them to add My Network TV WQMY to their line-up.

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