(SUNRISE, FL, January 20, 2005) – FSN Florida today announced its Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2005 Spring Training telecast schedule. The two match-ups will be the only Rays' Spring Training game telecasts and will be televised live from Progress Energy Park in St. Petersburg, Florida exclusively on FSN Florida.
Pre-season coverage marks FSN Florida's eighth season as the only statewide distributor for Rays' baseball on television. Play-by-play announcer, Dewayne Staats and color analyst, Joe Magrane, the only television broadcast team in Rays' history, return to the booth for FSN Florida and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
FSN Florida reaches over 5 million households in Florida. FSN 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, The Best Damn Sports Show Period, I, Max and The Sports List. FSN Florida is managed by Rainbow Sports Networks.
Rainbow Sports Networks is a division of Rainbow Media Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems
Corporation (NYSE:CVC). Fox Sports Net reaches more than 82.2 million households nationwide and is a service of National Sports Partners, equally owned by Rainbow Media Holdings LLC and Fox Entertainment Group. Rainbow Sports Networks incorporates Rainbow's 50% ownership in Fox Sports Net and Fox Sports National Advertising and the ownership and management of FSN regional networks in five of the nation's largest markets: Chicago, San Francisco, New England, Ohio and Florida.