Minneapolis/St. Paul – The Minnesota Timberwolves today announced their full television broadcast schedule for the 2016-17 regular season and for the first time in franchise history, every regular season game will be televised. The schedule will include 75 regular season games and two preseason telecasts on FOX Sports North, as well as nine NBA TV, four TNT and six ESPN telecasts.
FOX Sports North regular season coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 26 with a one-hour episode of Wolves Live presented by CenturyLink, before the Wolves take on Memphis. In addition, the network will air a 60-minute edition of Wolves Live for the Home Opener on Tuesday, Nov. 1.
FOX Sports North’s 75-game schedule includes 40 games from the Target Center and 35 on the road this season. A total of ten telecasts will be presented on FOX Sports North PLUS.
All games televised on FOX Sports North also will be streamed live on FOX Sports GO. FOX Sports GO is available to customers of participating pay-TV providers on iOS, Android, Fire tablets and Fire phones, Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, select Windows devices and online at FOXSportsGO.com. Fans can download the mobile app for free from the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Amazon App Store and Windows Store.
Timberwolves broadcasts will include play-by-play announcer Dave Benz, color analyst Jim Petersen and reporter Marney Gellner. Tom Hanneman will host Wolves Live before and after every game featuring analysis from Kevin Lynch and Quincy Lewis.
The regional sports network debuts a special season preview edition of “Wolves Weekly” on Wednesday, Oct. 19. “Track the Pack” also returns this season premiering Wednesday, Nov. 9. FOX Sports North reaches more than 2 million homes throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and North and South Dakota and telecasts nearly 2,600 hours of locally produced programming per year.
The full television broadcast schedule is below. Note that some games will be televised on more than one network.
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