Miami HEAT Basketball to be Televised in Spanish
Sun Sports, the exclusive regional television partner of the Miami HEAT, will produce the Spanish language telecasts. The games will be available on a dedicated channel to Comcast Cable customers throughout the South Florida region. Most Broward County Comcast customers will see the games on Channel 73, City of Miami customers on Channel 32 and Comcast customers in the rest of Miami-Dade County on Channel 24.
The first HEAT game to be produced regionally in Spanish will be the March 8 game vs. Washington (7:30pm). HEAT Spanish radio announcer Jose Paneda will handle the television play-by-play. Joe Pujala, the teams Spanish radio host, will serve as analyst, with Raul Striker Jr., who is also the Spanish television voice of the Florida Marlins, serving as sideline reporter and halftime host.
Sun Sports and FSN Florida Vice President and General Manager Cathy Weeden said, This is another terrific example of how we look for ways to work with our teams, our local affiliates and our sponsors to provide added value and give fans more viewing choices surrounding their favorite home town teams. As a multi-media company, creativity is a cornerstone in our expanding operations and we will continue to explore these and other opportunities as we look to grow our business and our partners businesses as well.
One of the main advantages of being a local cable provider is that we can customize programming to meet the needs of our communities, said Comcasts Senior Regional Vice President for South Florida, Filemon Lopez. Nothing could be a better fit than offering HEAT basketball in Spanish to South Floridas growing Hispanic basketball fan base. We know this will be a big hit with our customers and has the potential of opening up the excitement of HEAT basketball to a brand new fan base.
Were thrilled that our partnerships with both Sun Sports and Comcast have led to this opportunity to bring the HEAT to our fans that prefer to experience the HEAT in Spanish, said Eric Woolworth, President of Business Operations for the HEAT Group. Along with our radio game broadcasts on WQBA 1140 AM, we will now be offering our Spanish-speaking fans a full HEAT media experience.
| MIAMI HEAT IN SPANISH ON COMCAST | ||
| March 8 | 7:30pm | Washington |
| March 10 | 7:30pm | Golden State |
| March 14 | 7:30pm | Utah |
| March 16 | 8:00pm | Boston |
| March 24 | 7:30pm | Charlotte |
| March 27 | 7:30pm | Indiana |
| April 4 | 7:30pm | Milwaukee |
| April 6 | 8:00pm | Detroit |
| April 9 | 6:00pm | Orlando |
| April 11 | 7:30pm | Toronto |
