(SUNRISE, FL) – Fox Sports Net Florida, the exclusive television rights holder for Marlins baseball, today announced a comprehensive 99-game telecast schedule for the 2002 Florida Marlins season. Viewers throughout the state will enjoy a cable schedule of 96-game regular season and three Spring Training match ups on Fox Sports Net Florida. (Complete Marlins cable telecast schedule follows).
Fox Sports Net’s Spring Training coverage of the Marlins features live Grapefruit League match ups against the New York Mets on Monday, March 18 (1:00pm), the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday, March 23 (1:00pm), and the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday, March 27 (6:00pm). All televised Spring Training games will originate from Space Coast Stadium in Melbourne.
The 2002 regular season opens on Fox Sports Net Tuesday, April 2 at 6:30pm in Montreal with the MARLINS ON DECK pre-game show. The Marlins then take the field at 7:00pm to battle the Expos. Fox Sports Net Florida’s Marlins telecast schedule features 48 home and 48 away match ups. Telecast schedule highlights include three games against the World Series Champion Arizona Diamondbacks, 11 match ups against Chipper Jones, Gary Sheffield, and the Atlanta Braves, five meetings with the San Francisco Giants, featuring the 2001 National League MVP and single-season home run king Barry Bonds, and a total of 16 games against Mike Piazza’s New York Mets. This season’s interleague match ups include visits by the Cleveland Indians and cross-state rival – the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
Calling Florida Marlins games for the 2002 season will be Len Kasper. A past member of the Milwaukee Brewers broadcasting team, Kasper shares the Fox Sports Net broadcast booth for the first time with Tommy Hutton. A former Major League Baseball player and broadcasting veteran, Hutton returns for his sixth season as Fox Sports Net’s color analyst for Marlins telecasts. Craig Minervini, in his first season with Fox Sports Net, hosts the MARLINS ON DECK pre-game show, offering a unique perspective with pre-game insight and analysis prior to each game televised by the network. Minervini will also host MARLINS WEEKLY and serve as an in-game reporter during Marlins telecasts.
Fox Sports Net’s director for Marlins telecasts, Jim Holly, returns to the production truck for his fifth season with the team and 23rd season directing live sports events for broadcast television. Game coverage producer Jeff Brenner, who enters his fourth season working Marlins telecasts joins Holly for all games produced by the regional network.
Fox Sports Net Florida expects to announce the Marlins broadcast television schedule shortly.
A complete Marlins cable telecast schedule is attached.
Fox Sports Net Florida reaches more than 3.9 million households in Florida. Fox Sports Net Florida is managed by Rainbow Sports Networks, a division of Cablevision’s Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc. Fox Sports Net Florida’s programming includes Major League Baseball’s Florida Marlins and Tampa Bay Devil Rays; the National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers; the University of Miami, and the University of South Florida, along with select NASCAR and PGA Tour coverage.
Fox Sports Net reaches more than 78 million households nationwide and is a service of National Sports Partners, equally owned by Cablevision’s Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc. and Fox. Rainbow Sports Networks incorporates Rainbow’s 50% ownership of Fox Sports Net and Fox Sports National Advertising, and the ownership and management of Fox Sports Net regional networks in five of the nation’s largest markets: Chicago, Florida, Ohio, New England and San Francisco.
2002 Florida Marlins
Spring Training
| DATE
| OPPONENT
| TIME
| Mon. Mar. 18
| v. NY Mets
| 1:05p
| Sat. Mar. 23
| v. Los Angeles
| 1:05p
| Wed. Mar. 27
| v. Baltimore
| 6:05p
| Regular Season
| DATE
| OPPONENT
| TIME
| Tue. April 2
| @ Montreal
| 7:05p
| Thu. April 4
| @ Montreal
| 7:05p
| Sun. April 7
| @ Philadelphia
| 1:35p
| Thu. April 11
| v. Montreal
| 7:05p
| Sun. April 14
| v. Atlanta
| 1:05p
| Wed. April 17
| v. Philadelphia
| 7:05p
| Thu. April 18
| v. Philadelphia
| 7:05p
| Sat. April 20
| @ Atlanta
| 7:05p
| Mon. April 22
| @ Atlanta
| 7:35p
| Tue. April 23
| v. Houston
| 7:05p
| Thu. April 25
| v. Houston
| 7:05p
| Sat. April 27
| v. Arizona
| 7:05p
| Tue. April 30
| @ St. Louis
| 8:10p
| Wed. May 1
| @ St. Louis
| 8:10p
| Thu. May 2
| @ St. Louis
| 1:10p
| Fri. May 3
| @ Milwaukee
| 8:05p
| Sat. May 4
| @ Milwaukee
| 2:05p
| Tue. May 7
| v. San Diego
| 7:05p
| Thu. May 9
| v. San Diego
| 7:05p
| Sun. May 12
| v. Los Angeles
| 1:05p
| Mon. May 13
| @ Colorado
| 9:05p
| Thu. May 16
| @ Colorado
| 3:05p
| Fri. May 17
| @ San Francisco
| 10:35p
| Sat. May 18
| @ San Francisco
| 4:05p
| Wed. May 22
| @ Cincinnati
| 7:10p
| Fri. May 24
| @ NY Mets
| 7:10p
| Sat. May 25
| @ NY Mets
| 1:10p
| Sun. May 26
| @ NY Mets
| 1:10p
| Mon. May 27
| @ NY Mets
| 1:10p
| Wed. May 29
| v. Cincinnati
| 7:05p
| Fri. May 31
| v. NY Mets
| 7:05p
| Sat. June 1
| v. NY Mets
| 7:05p
| Sun. June 2
| v. NY Mets
| 4:05p
| Tue. June 4
| @ Philadelphia
| 7:05p
| Wed. June 5
| @ Philadelphia
| 7:05p
| Thu. June 6
| @ Philadelphia
| 7:05p
| Fri. June 7
| @ Minnesota
| 8:05p
| Sat. June 8
| @ Minnesota
| 7:05p
| Mon. June 10
| @ Kansas City
| 8:05p
| Fri. June 14
| v. Tampa Bay
| 7:05p
| Thu. June 20
| v. Cleveland
| 7:05p
| Fri. June 21
| v. Detroit
| 7:05p
| Sun. June 23
| v. Detroit
| 4:05p
| Mon. June 24
| v. Philadelphia
| 7:05p
| Thu. June 27
| v. Philadelphia
| 7:05p
| Sat. June 29
| @ Tampa Bay
| 6:15p
| Mon. July 1
| v. Chicago Cubs
| 7:05p
| Wed. July 3
| v. Chicago Cubs
| 7:05p
| Thu. July 4
| v. NY Mets
| 6:05p
| Sat. July 6
| v. NY Mets
| 7:05p
| Sun. July 7
| v. NY Mets
| 4:05p
| Sat. July 13
| @ Chicago Cubs
| 4:05p
| Mon. July 15
| @ NY Mets
| 7:10p
| Wed. July 17
| @ Atlanta
| 7:05p
| Thu. July 18
| @ Atlanta
| 1:05p
| Fri. July 19
| v. Montreal
| 7:05p
| Sat. July 20
| v. Montreal
| 7:05p
| Mon. July 22
| v. Atlanta
| 7:05p
| Wed. July 24
| v. Atlanta
| 1:05p
| Thu. July 25
| @ Montreal
| 7:05p
| Sun. July 28
| @ Montreal
| 1:35p
| Wed. July 31
| v. St. Louis
| 7:05p
| Thu. August 1
| v. St. Louis
| 7:05p
| Sat. August 3
| v. Milwaukee
| 7:05p
| Wed. August 7
| @ Houston
| 8:05p
| Fri. August 9
| @ Arizona
| 10:05p
| Sat. August 10
| @ Arizona
| 4:05p
| Mon. August 12
| v. Colorado
| 7:05p
| Tue. August 13
| v. Colorado
| 7:05p
| Sat. August 17
| v. San Francisco
| 7:05p
| Sun. August 18
| v. San Francisco
| 4:05p
| Mon. August 19
| v. San Francisco
| 1:05p
| Tue. August 20
| @ Los Angeles
| 10:10p
| Wed. August 21
| @ Los Angeles
| 10:10p
| Thu. August 22
| @ Los Angeles
| 3:10p
| Fri. August 23
| @ San Diego
| 10:05p
| Tue. August 27
| v. NY Mets
| 7:05p
| Wed. August 28
| v. NY Mets
| 7:05p
| Fri. August 30
| v. Pittsburgh
| 7:05p
| Sat. August 31
| v. Pittsburgh
| 7:05p
| Mon. September 2
| @ NY Mets
| 1:10p
| Wed. September 4
| @ NY Mets
| 7:10p
| Thu. September 5
| @ NY Mets
| 7:10p
| Sat. September 7
| @ Pittsburgh
| 7:05p
| Sun. September 8
| @ Pittsburgh
| 1:35p
| Wed. September 11
| @ Philadelphia
| 7:05p
| Thu. September 12
| @ Philadelphia
| 7:05p
| Sat. September 14
| v. Atlanta
| 7:05p
| Sun. September 15
| v. Atlanta
| 4:05p
| Mon. September 16
| v. Atlanta
| 7:05p
| Tue. September 17
| v. Montreal
| 7:05p
| Thu. September 19
| v. Montreal
| 7:05p
| Sat. September 21
| @ Atlanta
| 7:05p
| Tue. September 24
| @ Montreal
| 7:05p
| Fri. September 27
| v. Philadelphia
| 7:05p
| Sat. September 28
| v. Philadelphia
| 7:05p | | ||||