Flyers announce local TV sked

-Courtesy of the Philadelphia Flyers

The Philadelphia Flyers announced today that all 82 of their 2007-08 regular season games will be locally televised. Comcast SportsNet will televise 60 games, while The CW Philly 57 (WPSG-TV) and CN8, The Comcast Network, will each televise five games. In addition, VERSUS will televise eight games exclusively in the local market and NBC's exclusive coverage of the National Hockey League on Sunday afternoons tentatively includes four Flyers contests.

"We have had a very exciting offseason and are looking forward to the upcoming season," said Flyers Vice President of Marketing and Communications Shawn Tilger. "We are very fortunate to have great local partners in Comcast SportsNet, The CW Philly 57 and CN8 and we are thrilled to be able to bring all the Flyers games to our fans for another season."

In addition to its regular season coverage, Comcast SportsNet will televise the preseason game on Monday, September 24, between the Flyers and the New Jersey Devils at the Wachovia Center at 7:00 p.m. All Flyers home games on Comcast SportsNet are produced in high definition.

Jim Jackson, Keith Jones and Steve Coates make up the Flyers' television team and will call the action for the Comcast SportsNet, The CW Philly 57 and CN8, The Comcast Network, broadcasts. In his 12th season of calling play-by-play action for the Flyers, Jackson has been nominated for a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award in the category of Individual Achievement - Sports Play-By-Play/Color Commentary seven times, winning four times (1999, 2001, 2002 and 2003). Jones, in his second season as a member of the Flyers' television team, will be back in the booth as an analyst. Coates, who is entering his 25th season as a member of the Flyers' broadcast team, will again report from rinkside to provide viewers with insight and analysis of the game through interviews and live accounts of the action.