SportsNet Pittsburgh (SNP) is an American

regional sports network A regional sports network (RSN) in the United States and Canada is a television channel that presents sports programming to a local media market or geographical region. Such channels often focus on one or a few teams who currently play in Major L ...

serving

Greater Pittsburgh Greater Pittsburgh is the metropolitan area surrounding the city of Pittsburgh in Western Pennsylvania, United States. The region includes Allegheny County, Pittsburgh's urban core county and economic hub, and seven adjacent Pennsylvania cou ...

and

western Pennsylvania Western Pennsylvania is a region in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the Unite ...

. Jointly owned by

Fenway Sports Group Fenway Sports Group Holdings, LLC (FSG), is an American multinational sports holding conglomerate which owns Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox, Premier League’s Liverpool F.C., Liverpool, National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins, NAS ...

and Robert Nutting via the

Pittsburgh Penguins The Pittsburgh Penguins (colloquially known as the Pens) are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh. The Penguins compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference (NHL), E ...

and

Pittsburgh Pirates The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh. The Pirates compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League Central, Central ...

respectively, it serves as the regional broadcaster of both teams. It is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with some of its operations handled from the facilities of sister network

NESN New England Sports Network, popularly known as NESN , is an American regional sports cable and satellite television network owned by a joint venture of Fenway Sports Group (which owns a controlling 80% interest, and is the owner of the Boston ...

in Watertown, Massachusetts. The channel was first launched by

Tele-Communications Inc Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) was a cable television provider in the United States, and for most of its history was controlled by Bob Magness and John Malone. The company was started in 1958 in Bozeman, Montana, as Western Microwave, Inc. and ...

in April 1986 as the KBL Entertainment Network, which featured a mixture of sports and entertainment programming. After being transferred to TCI subsidiary

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, KBL was rebranded as part of its

Prime Sports Prime Sports (originally known as the Prime Sports Network (PSN), and also known as Prime Network or simply Prime) is the collective name for a former group of regional sports networks in the United States that were owned by Liberty Media, oper ...

chain of regional sports networks in 1994, and subsequently became a charter member of

Fox Sports Net Fox Sports Networks (FSN), formerly known as Fox Sports Net, was the collective name for a group of regional sports channels in the United States. Formed in 1996 by News Corporation, the networks were acquired by the Walt Disney Company on Mar ...

upon its establishment in 1996. After a corporate restructuring that brought Liberty's networks under

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, the channel was rebranded as Root Sports Pittsburgh in 2011, and then AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh under the

AT&T SportsNet AT&T Sports Networks, LLC (ATTSN) was a group of regional sports networks in the United States that primarily own and operate AT&T Sports Networks (founded in 2009, as Liberty Sports Holdings, later DirecTV Sports Networks, LLC). It was owned by ...

brand after DirecTV was acquired by

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. In 2023,

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announced that it would sell or shut down its regional sports networks: in August 2023, it was announced that the Penguins would acquire the network and rebrand it as SportsNet Pittsburgh in October 2023, with NESN—a sister via the Penguins' parent company Fenway Sports Group—assuming day-to-day operations. Prior to their 2024 season, the Pirates also acquired a stake in the network. , SportsNet Pittsburgh is available on

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providers throughout nearly all of Pennsylvania (outside the

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market), almost all of

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, western

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, eastern

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, southwestern border areas of

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and

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, reaching more than 2.4 million homes; it is also available in the

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, market through

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, though Penguins broadcasts are blacked out due to the presence of the

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. It is also available nationwide on

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via

History

The channel launched on April 13, 1986, as Pirates Cable Network, exclusively serving the

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; its first sports event telecast on that date was a

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game between the

and

Chicago Cubs The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League Central, Central Division. Th ...

from

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, announced by Mike Lange, in which the Pirates shut out the Cubs, 8–0. The network commenced full-time broadcasts on April 24, 1986, as the KBL Entertainment Network, in order to allow other sports besides the Pirates to be included on the network. Its first regular broadcast was a Pirates home game against the

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. The network was initially owned by Tele-Communications Inc. (now part of

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), then the largest

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provider in the Pittsburgh

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. KBL quickly expanded its cable coverage. As early as May 9, 1986, its cable footprint roughly approximated its present six-state coverage area. While it primarily carried sports-related programming, KBL also served as a general entertainment cable channel while under TCI ownership, essentially filling the void left after

independent station An independent station is a broadcast station, usually a television station, not affiliated with a larger broadcast television network, network. As such, it only broadcasts broadcast syndication, syndicated programs it has purchased; brokered pr ...

WPGH-TV WPGH-TV (channel 53) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside dual The CW, CW and MyNetworkTV affiliate WPNT ...

(channel 53) became a charter affiliate of the

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seven months after KBL's debut. It aired

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for part of the day, including reruns of the

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animated series ''

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''. In 1994, TCI transferred the channel to its corporate parent

; KBL then immediately dropped all entertainment programming and converted the renamed Prime Sports KBL into an affiliate of Prime SportsChannel America, a partnership between Liberty's

Prime Network Prime Sports (originally known as the Prime Sports Network (PSN), and also known as Prime Network or simply Prime) is the collective name for a former group of regional sports networks in the United States that were owned by Liberty Media, op ...

and the

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-owned

SportsChannel America SportsChannel is the collective name for a former group of regional sports networks in the United States that was owned by Cablevision, which from 1988 until the group's demise, operated it as a joint venture with NBC. Operating from March 1, ...

regional sports network groups. In 1995, Prime Network's retail subsidiary, Prime Sports Merchandising, purchased some sports apparel stores located inside

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s and rebranded them as Prime Sports Shops, promoting them on its networks including KBL.

In 1996,

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, which formed a sports division for the

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network two years earlier after it obtained the broadcast rights to the

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and sought to create a group of regional sports networks, acquired a 50% interest in the Prime Network from TCI parent Liberty Media. Later that year on November 1, News Corporation and Liberty Media relaunched the Prime Network affiliates as part of the new

group, with Prime Sports KBL officially rebranding as Fox Sports Pittsburgh. The deal temporarily ended the Prime SportsChannel partnership, although News Corporation subsequently acquired most of the SportsChannel networks the following year; the retail stores, meanwhile, retained the "Prime Sports" name for many years after the rebranding of the regional networks as part of Fox Sports Net. The channel was rebranded as Fox Sports Net Pittsburgh in 2000, as part of a collective brand modification of the FSN networks under the "Fox Sports Net" banner; subsequently in 2004, the channel shortened its name to FSN Pittsburgh, through the networks' de-emphasis of the "Fox Sports Net" brand. On December 22, 2006, News Corporation sold its interest in FSN Pittsburgh and sister networks FSN Utah,

FSN Northwest Root Sports Northwest, sometimes branded simply as Root Sports, is an American regional sports network owned by the Seattle Mariners. Headquartered near Seattle in the city of Bellevue, Washington, the channel broadcasts regional coverage of sp ...

and FSN Rocky Mountain to Liberty Media, in an asset trade in which News Corporation also traded its 38.5% ownership stake in satellite provider

for $550 million in cash and stock, in exchange for Liberty Media's 16.3% stake in the company. On May 4, 2009, DirecTV Group Inc. announced it would become a part of Liberty's entertainment unit, part of which would then be spun off into the separate company under the DirecTV name, in a deal in which Liberty would increase its share in DirecTV from 48% to 54%, with Liberty owner

John Malone John Carl Malone (born March 7, 1941) is an American billionaire businessman, landowner, and philanthropist. He was chief executive officer (CEO) of Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), a cable and media giant, from 1973 to 1996. As of 2016, Malone i ...

and his family owning a 24% interest. DirecTV would operate its newly acquired FSN-affiliated networks through DirecTV Sports Networks, a new division formed when the split off from Liberty Media was completed on November 19, 2009. On December 17, 2010, DirecTV Sports Networks announced that its four Fox Sports Networks-affiliated regional outlets would be relaunched under the " Root Sports" brand. The network officially rebranded as Root Sports Pittsburgh on April 1, 2011, coinciding with the start of the

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. For nominal purposes, the Root Sports networks continued to carry programming distributed mainly to the Fox Sports regional networks to provide supplementary sports and entertainment programming. On April 8, 2016, DirecTV Sports Networks rebranded under the AT&T name as AT&T Sports Networks. On June 12, 2017, AT&T Sports Networks announced that the network, along with Root Sports Southwest, and Root Sports Rocky Mountain, would rebrand as AT&T SportsNet with the channel becoming AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh. All network programming and on-air talent remained intact, with the exception of Paul Steigerwald, who was replaced in October 2017 by

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as the play-by-play announcer of the Penguins. The name change took effect on July 14, 2017. In July 2019, it was reported that AT&T was looking to sell its regional sports networks to reduce debt related to its acquisition of

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, as well as rolling out 5G on its cell phone networks. Two potential suitors included

Sinclair Broadcast Group Sinclair, Inc., doing business as Sinclair Broadcast Group, is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith. Headquartered in the Baltimore suburb o ...

, which had acquired Fox Sports Networks (with

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) amid the

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(and already had a decades-long presence in the Pittsburgh market as the owners of WPGH-TV/

WPNT WPNT (channel 22) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with The CW and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Fox affiliate WPGH-TV (channel 53). The two stations share studios ...

), as well as

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, which owns regional networks via its

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division, and whose parent company

is the cable provider in Pittsburgh. On October 1, 2021, AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh, along with sister networks AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, and Root Sports Northwest, was removed from Dish Network satellite and Sling streaming TV services. On February 24, 2023,

announced plans to exit the RSN business, informing the teams that AT&T Sports Networks would file for

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unless deals were made for them to exit or take over the channels.

Root Sports Northwest Root Sports Northwest, sometimes branded simply as Root Sports, is an American regional sports network owned by the Seattle Mariners. Headquartered near Seattle in the city of Bellevue, Washington, the channel broadcasts regional coverage of sp ...

was not affected, as it is majority-owned by the

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. While originally setting a deadline of March 31, it later reached an agreement to keep the networks operational through at least the end of the

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. ''

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'' noted that Penguins owner

had experience in the RSN business via its operation of

in Boston, and reported that the channel could be integrated with or replaced by a local feed of NESN. On August 28, 2023, it was reported that the Penguins had reached an agreement to acquire AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh. Two days later, it was announced that the network would be acquired by Fenway Sports Group via the Pittsburgh Penguins, and would be rebranded as SportsNet Pittsburgh on October 2. NESN will handle the day-to-day operations of the network. It was initially uncertain whether the Pirates would continue to be televised by the channel, with sportswriters citing potential

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concerns with FSG being the parent company of a competing MLB team, the

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. On December 13, 2023, the Pirates announced that they had acquired a stake in SportsNet Pittsburgh, and confirmed that it would remain the team's home beginning in the 2024 season. Team president Travis Williams stated that Major League Baseball was not worried about any conflict of interest concerns. On April 29, 2024, the network launched SNP 360 as its over-the-top streaming platform. Modelled after NESN 360, the service allows viewers to stream live and video on-demand content and event coverage. It is available at no additional charge to SportsNet Pittsburgh subscribers on television providers, and sold as a

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subscription service priced at $17.99 per-month.

Programming

SportsNet Pittsburgh carries Pittsburgh Penguins hockey, Pittsburgh Pirates baseball, and other area professional, collegiate, and high-school sporting events. To fill out its schedule outside local sports, the network carries live coverage of the

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, and the

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, as well as tape-delayed coverage of pro

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boxing Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punch ...

, padel,

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, and

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. The network also airs

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programming,

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programs, Savannah Bananas baseball, regional outdoor programming, and several documentary and discussion-based shows, including '' Sports Stars of Tomorrow'' and '' In Depth with Graham Bensinger''.

Professional sports

Pittsburgh Penguins

SportsNet Pittsburgh maintains exclusive regional rights to most regular season and any early-round

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games involving the

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; it also carries pre- and postgame coverage and Penguins-related programs such as classic game re-airs, historical programming, ''Penguins in 2'' (condensed game replays), ''Inside Penguins Hockey'', ''The Raw Tapes'', and ''Penguins Game Plan.'' On April 27, 2011, the network reached a contract extension with the Penguins, allowing the network to continue carrying most of the team's NHL game telecasts through the end of the 2028–29 NHL season.

Pittsburgh Pirates

The network holds the regional cable television rights to the

, carrying over 150 regular season and

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games annually, as well as pre- and postgame coverage, rebroadcasts of recent games (as part of ''Pirates Instant Replay''), classic game re-airs, and the team analysis program ''Inside Pirates Baseball'' presented by Allegheny Health Network. From the 2013 to 2018 seasons, Sportsnet's telecasts of Pirates games were blacked out on DirecTV in many portions of the Pirates' claimed territory, including the

, market, for reasons not released publicly. Despite the blackout, DirecTV did not allow Pirates games to be shown in the blacked-out area on its MLB Extra Innings package. The blackout was lifted in time for the 2019 season.

Pittsburgh Passion

Sportsnet’s partnership with the

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of the Women’s Football Alliance began in the late 2000’s. Telecasts were initially condensed game replays, showing highlights of the previous game in a fast-paced, one-hour time window. As of 2024, the Passion have returned to the network after a decade-long hiatus.

Pittsburgh Steelers

The network formerly served as the cable home of the

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, broadcasting team-related magazine and analysis programs such as weekly

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s held by coach

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during the regular season and the team coach's show ''The Mike Tomlin Show'' (both were hosted by Stan Savran). This continued through the 2016 season.

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now airs ''The Mike Tomlin Show'', while Tomlin's Tuesday press conference is no longer televised live. Although regular Steelers coverage is no longer part of the network's lineup, team documentary programming continues to air from time to time, usually focused on historical figures such as

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and

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. National NFL content from VSIN and

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is also aired by SportsNet Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC

Beginning with the 2024 season, Sportsnet airs select matches from the

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of the

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. The network shares the local broadcast rights to the Riverhounds with

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owned independent station

WPKD-TV WPKD-TV (channel 19), branded KDKA+, is an independent television station licensed to Jeannette, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the Pittsburgh area. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside KDKA-TV (channel 2), the market ...

(KDKA+).

Minor league sports

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins

The network currently serves as the cable home of the AHL's

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (sometimes known as the WBS Penguins) are a professional ice hockey team based in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. They are the American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate of the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Pengui ...

, broadcasting weekend home games during the regular season. Prior to the network acquiring the rights to the games, the team had no television coverage in either Pittsburgh's or Wilkes-Barre's DMAs.

Indianapolis Indians

Sportsnet airs select games featuring the

Indianapolis Indians The Indianapolis Indians are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League (IL) and the Triple-A (baseball), Triple-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. They are located in Indianapolis, Indiana, and play their home games at Victory ...

, the Triple-A

minor league Minor leagues are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports. Minor league teams tend to play in smaller, less elaborate venues, often competing in smaller cities/markets. This term is used in Nort ...

affiliate of the Pirates.

Altoona Curve

Sportsnet airs select games featuring the

Altoona Curve The Altoona Curve are a Minor League Baseball team based in Altoona, Pennsylvania, named after nearby Horseshoe Curve (but also alluding to the curveball, a type of pitch). The team plays in the Eastern League and is the Double-A affiliate of ...

, the Double-A

affiliate of the Pirates.

College sports

Current Programming

West Virginia Mountaineers The West Virginia Mountaineers are the athletic teams that represent West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. The school is a member of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I. The Mountaineers have been a membe ...

coaches shows, football and basketball pregame shows *

Duquesne Dukes The Duquesne Dukes are the athletic teams of Duquesne University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Dukes compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association as members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. Football and bowling, however ...

men's and women's basketball and coaches shows *

Robert Morris Colonials The Robert Morris Colonials are the athletic teams for Robert Morris University, in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. The Colonials compete in NCAA Division I (Football Championship Subdivision, FCS, formerly Division I-AA, in ...

football, men's basketball, men's and women's ice hockey *

Northeast Conference The Northeast Conference (NEC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Teams in the NEC compete in Division I for all sports; football competes in the Division I Foo ...

football, men's and women's basketball *

Mountain East Conference The Mountain East Conference (MEC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level and officially began competition on September 1, 2013. It consists of 11 schools, m ...

men's and women's basketball tournaments, as well as occasional regular season broadcasts of football and basketball * Syndicated coverage of men's and women's ice hockey from various schools and conferences

Former Programming

SportsNet Pittsburgh formerly carried the exclusive rights to the West Virginia Mountaineers, carrying all

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and

men's basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

games not picked up by a national network, as well as select women's basketball games, select other live events (women's soccer, baseball, etc.), and the

team's weekly Tuesday press conferences. Although the network lost rights to the live events portion of their WVU coverage to

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beginning with the 2020-2021 season, a coaches show involving all Mountaineer sports and ''Mountaineer Gameday Live'', a live pregame show for Mountaineer football and men's basketball, still air on the channel. Similarly, the network formerly carried football, men's and women's basketball, and other events featuring the

Pittsburgh Panthers The Pittsburgh Panthers, commonly also referred to as the Pitt Panthers, are the athletic teams representing the University of Pittsburgh, although the term is colloquially used to refer to other aspects of the university such as alumni, facul ...

, which were produced first by

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and later by

Fox Sports South FanDuel Sports Network South is an American regional sports network owned by Main Street Sports Group (formerly Diamond Sports Group) and operated as an affiliate of FanDuel Sports Network. The network carries regional coverage of professional a ...

and

Raycom Sports Raycom Sports is a Charlotte, North Carolina–based producer of sports television programs owned by Gray Media. It was founded in 1979 by husband and wife, Rick and Dee Ray. In the 1980s, Raycom Sports established a prominent joint venture wi ...

once the Panthers moved to the ACC. Additionally, the network aired a number of Panthers-related insider programs, including

Pat Narduzzi Patrick Regan Narduzzi (born April 22, 1966) is an American football coach and former player. Since 2015, he has been the head coach of the University of Pittsburgh. He was formerly the defensive coordinator at Michigan State. He attended Youngst ...

's weekly press conferences, The ''Pat Narduzzi Show'' with Larry Richert, and the magazine program ''Beyond The Script'', which was hosted by the network's Rob King. The partnership ended following the 2020-21 athletic year. Additional collegiate programming formerly carried by SportsNet has included: * Syndicated coverage of ACC,

Atlantic 10 The Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I. The A-10's member schools are located mostly on the East Coast and Midwest of the ...

Big 12 The Big 12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States. It consists of 16 full-member universities (3 private universities and 13 public universities) in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Okla ...

Big East The Big East Conference (stylized as BIG EAST) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference that competes in National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA NCAA Division I, Division I in 10 men's sports and 12 women's sports. H ...

, Big Sky,

Big Ten The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference, among others) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives in 1 ...

Conference USA Conference USA (CUSA) is a collegiate athletic conference of member institutions in the Southern and Western United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports. CUSA's offices are located in Dallas, Texas. Mem ...

Pac-12 The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the Western United States. It participates at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level for all sports, and its football teams compete in the Football Bowl ...

Patriot League The Patriot League is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference comprising primarily leading Private university, private institutions of higher education and two United States service academies based in the Northeastern United ...

, WAC and

West Coast Conference The West Coast Conference (WCC) — known as the California Basketball Association from 1952 to 1956 and then as the West Coast Athletic Conference until 1989 — is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with NCAA Division I consisting o ...

athletics (most notably football and men’s and women’s basketball) *

Marshall Thundering Herd The Marshall Thundering Herd is the intercollegiate athletic collection of teams that collectively represent the Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Thundering Herd athletic teams compete in the Sun Belt Conference, which are memb ...

Notre Dame Fighting Irish The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are the athletic teams that represent the University of Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish participate in 26 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I intercollegiate sports and in the NCAA's Division ...

Penn State Nittany Lions The Penn State Nittany Lions are the athletic teams of Pennsylvania State University, except for the women's basketball team, known as the Penn State Lady Lions basketball, Lady Lions. The school colors are navy blue and white. The school mascot ...

, and

Villanova Wildcats The Villanova Wildcats are the athletic teams of Villanova University. They compete in the Big East (NCAA Division I) for every sport; except football and women's rowing where they compete in the Coastal Athletic Association (Football Champions ...

insider programming * ACC, Big 12, Big East, and Conference USA weekly magazine shows * Three Rivers Classic hockey tournament coverage

High school & youth sports

West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission (WVSSAC, but colloquially referred to as SSAC) is the main governing body of high school sports, cheerleading, and marching bands in West Virginia, United States. Beginning with the 2024-25 s ...

high school football, baseball, softball, and boys' and girls' basketball championship games, as well as occasional broadcasts of regular-season WVSSAC football contests, are carried by SportsNet Pittsburgh. The network is the regional home of the annual PONY League World Series, which is held locally in

Washington County, Pennsylvania Washington County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 209,349. Its county seat is Washington, Pe ...

. Former Pirates' play-by-play announcer Lanny Frattare calls most games. SportsNet also provides extensive coverage of Pittsburgh-area high school athletics. Notable events broadcast by the network include the Pittsburgh City League boys’ and girls’ basketball championships, the Penguins Cup, and the Serra Catholic Baseball Invitational. The network also provides coverage of Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL) boys' and girls' regular season basketball. Until 2019, WPIAL regular season, playoff, and championship football games were a network staple. WPCW took over the rights to all 6 championship games in 2018, and the rights to additional playoff and regular season games in 2019.

Studio Programming

The network provides live pre- and postgame coverage for all Penguins and Pirates games, including games aired on other networks. With the sale of the network to Fenway Sports Group, pre- and postgame coverage has been expanded from 30 minutes to an hour before and after each game, as of October 2023. Since 2021, SportsNet has served as the local affiliate of VSIN's ''Follow The Money'', a 3-hour sports betting program that airs weekdays from 7-10am. Additional content from VSIN was added in the fall of 2023, including ''The Lombardi Line'' and betting-oriented NFL and college football gameday programming. Previously, the network aired simulcasts of Audience Network's ''

The Rich Eisen Show Richard Eisen ( ; born June 24, 1969) is an American television sportscaster and radio host. Since 2003, he has worked for NFL Network as a host of various pregame, halftime, and postgame shows and doing occasional play-by-play. He also hosts a ...

'' and ''

The Dan Patrick Show ''The Dan Patrick Show'' is a syndicated radio and television sports talk show, hosted by former ESPN personality Dan Patrick. It is currently produced by Patrick and is syndicated to radio stations by Premiere Radio Networks, within and inde ...

'' in similar time slots. Throughout the previous 2 decades, locally-produced studio programming has been drastically reduced from nightly programs to pre- and postgame coverage only. ''Savran on SportsBeat'', ''Pittsburgh Sports Tonight'', and live Steelers coverage are just some of the local studio shows that were cancelled during the network's ownership under Liberty Media in the late 2000s. Nationally distributed Fox Sports studio shows also aired in both live and tape-delay until they were moved to

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upon its 2013 launch.

On-air staff

Current on-air staff

Pittsburgh Penguins

* Josh Getzoff - Play-by-play announcer * Colby Armstrong - color commentator *

Phil Bourque Phillipe Richard Bourque (born June 8, 1962) is an American former professional ice hockey player. He was never selected in the NHL Entry Draft; instead, he was signed as a free agent by the Pittsburgh Penguins on October 4, 1982. He is a dist ...

- color commentator (select games) * Hailey Hunter - rinkside reporter/studio anchor (select games) * Dan Potash - studio anchor/rinkside reporter (select games) *

Mike Rupp Michael Ryan Rupp (born January 13, 1980) is an American former professional ice hockey Centre (ice hockey), center. He has played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New Jersey Devils, Phoenix Coyotes, Columbus Blue Jackets, Pittsburgh P ...

- studio analyst/color commentator (select games) * Jay Caufield - studio analyst *

Bryan Trottier Bryan John Trottier (born July 17, 1956) is a Canadian and American former professional ice hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins. He won four Stanley Cups with ...

- studio analyst * Matt Bartkowski - studio analyst * Ryan Malone - studio analyst

Pittsburgh Pirates

* Greg Brown – play-by-play announcer * Joe Block - play-by-play announcer * Hannah Mears - field reporter * Rob King - studio host * Kevin Young - color commentator * Matt Capps - color commentator * Michael McKenry - color commentator and studio analyst *

Bob Walk Robert Vernon Walk (born November 26, 1956), nicknamed "The Whirly Bird", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies (), Atlanta Braves (–), and Pittsburgh Pirat ...

- color commentator *

Neil Walker Neil Martin Andrew Walker (born September 10, 1985) is an American former professional baseball second baseman and current broadcaster. He played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets, Milwaukee Bre ...

- color commentator * John Wehner - color commentator *

Steven Brault Steven Joseph Brault (born April 29, 1992) is an American MLB broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Pirates and a former professional baseball pitcher and outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball for the Pirates and the Chicago Cubs. Amateur care ...

- studio analyst * Jordy Mercer - studio analyst * Alex Presley - studio analyst

College Sports

* Tim Benz - basketball and ice hockey play-by-play announcer * Josh Taylor - basketball play-by-play announcer * Alex Panormios - football and basketball play-by-play announcer *

Ellis Cannon Ellis G. Cannon is an American talk show host, television personality and publisher. He was born on March 28, 1959, and was raised in Midland, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lincoln High School in Midland in 1977. Cannon received his B.A. and J ...

- Duquesne men’s basketball color commentator * Rachel Zimmerman - Duquesne women’s basketball color commentator * Mike Prisuta - Robert Morris men’s ice hockey color commentator

Studio anchors

* Dan Potash * Hailey Hunter * Rob King

Notable former on-air staff

Pittsburgh Penguins

* Mike Lange – play-by-play announcer (later with the

Pittsburgh Penguins Radio Network The Pittsburgh Penguins Radio Network is a radio network operated by the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League that provides broadcasts for all the team's games. Josh Getzoff assumed play-by-play duties at the start of the 2021-22 sea ...

; died on February 19, 2025) * Paul Steigerwald – play-by-play announcer (now with the communications and marketing department of the Penguins' front office and the Penguins Radio Network) * Bob Errey – color commentator (now with NHL Network) * Peter Taglianetti – color commentator *

Eddie Olczyk Edward Walter Olczyk Jr. (; born August 16, 1966) is an American sportscaster and former professional ice hockey player. He spent 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), playing as a center for the Chicago Blackhawks, Toronto Maple Le ...

– color commentator (now with ''

NHL on TNT The ''NHL on TNT'' is an American presentation of National Hockey League (NHL) games produced by TNT Sports (formerly known as Turner Sports and later Warner Bros. Discovery Sports), and televised on TNT and streamed on Max in the United State ...

'' and the

Seattle Kraken The Seattle Kraken are a professional ice hockey team based in Seattle. The Kraken compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division (NHL), Pacific Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference. The t ...

) *

– play by play announcer (now with the

)

Pittsburgh Pirates

* Tim Neverett – play-by-play announcer (now with the

Los Angeles Dodgers The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League West, West Div ...

) * Lanny Frattare – play-by-play announcer (semi-retired, currently the play-by-play announcer for PONY League World Series telecasts) *

Steve Blass Stephen Robert Blass (born April 18, 1942) is an American retired professional baseball pitcher and television sports color commentator. He played his entire career in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates in ...

– color commentator (retired after 2019 Pirates' season) *

Ken Macha Kenneth Edward Macha ( ; born September 29, 1950) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) third baseman and manager. He managed the Oakland Athletics from 2003 to 2006, including American League Western Division championships in both h ...

– studio analyst *

Kent Tekulve Kenton Charles Tekulve ( ; born March 5, 1947), nicknamed "Teke", is an American former professional baseball right-handed relief pitcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He also played f ...

– studio analyst (retired after 2017 Pirates' season) * Lacee Collins – field reporter * Robby Incmikoski - field reporter * Aly Cohen - studio host

West Virginia University

* Warren Baker – men's basketball color commentator (now with ESPN+) * Marc Bulger – football color commentator * Mike Logan – football color commentator * Rasheed Marshall – football color commentator * Meg Bulger – football sideline reporter (still occasionally appears on the network as a sideline reporter for Mountain East basketball)

High School Football

* Chris Schneider – color commentator * Craig Wolfley – color commentator (now with

Pittsburgh Steelers Radio Network The Pittsburgh Steelers Radio Network is an American radio network composed of 39 radio stations which carry English-language coverage of the Pittsburgh Steelers, a professional football team in the National Football League (NFL). Since 2013, c ...

) * Rich Walsh – sideline reporter (now with

)

Studio Anchors & Analysts

* Stan Savran – host of ''SportsBeat'', Penguins and Pirates pregame shows (died in June 2023) * Guy Junker – co-host of ''SportsBeat'' (later with

WTAE-TV WTAE-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with ABC. It has been owned by Hearst Television since the station's inception, making this one of two stations that have been built and signe ...

; now Pirates public address announcer) * Paul Alexander – now with

KDKA-AM KDKA () is a list of North American broadcast station classes, class A, clear channel, AM radio station, licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, owned and operated by Audacy, Inc. Its radio studios are located at the combined Audacy Pittsburgh fac ...

& KDKA-FM * Ryan Burr – now with the

Golf Channel Golf Channel (also verbally referred to as simply "Golf" or "NBC Golf") is an American sports television network owned by the NBC Sports Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Founded in Birmingham, Alabama, it is currently ba ...

Trenni Casey Trenni Casey ( Kusnierek; born April 30, 1977) is an American sports anchor and reporter for NBC Sports Boston. Early life Casey is a graduate of Muskego High School and a 1999 journalism graduate of Marquette University.NBC Sports Boston NBC Sports Boston is an American regional sports network owned by the NBC Sports Group unit of NBCUniversal, and operates as an affiliate of NBC Sports Regional Networks. The channel broadcasts regional coverage of professional sports events thro ...

* Marshall Harris – later with

WBBM-TV WBBM-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the market's CBS network outlet. Owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division, the station maintains studios on West Washington St ...

Chicago Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...

* Brent Stover – now with

Big Ten Network Big Ten Network (BTN) is an American sports network based in Chicago, Illinois. The channel is dedicated to coverage of College athletics, collegiate sports sanctioned by the Big Ten Conference, including live and recorded event telecasts, news ...

References

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