Country | United States |
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Broadcast area | Louisiana Mississippi Alabama |
Headquarters | New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Picture format | 720p (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Gray Media |
Sister channels | Arizona's Family Sports Peachtree Sports Network |
History | |
Launched | October 2, 2024 |
Replaced | Bally Sports New Orleans |
Links | |
Website | www |
Availability | |
Streaming media | |
FuboTV | Internet Protocol television |
Gulf Coast Sports & Entertainment Network is a broadcast television regional sports network in the U.S. states of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, owned by Gray Media. The network is the broadcast home for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association.
The network launched on October 2, 2024.
On March 14, 2023, Diamond Sports Group, the parent company of Bally Sports New Orleans (the previous television home of the Pelicans), filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, [1] 30 days after they failed to make a $140M interest payment. [2] As part of the bankruptcy, during the 2023–24 NBA season, Bally Sports reached an agreement with the NBA to allow teams to exclusively air up to 10 games on local over-the-air networks. [3] The Pelicans reached an agreement with Gray Television for its over-the-air games. [4] On August 23, 2024, Diamond Sports rejected its contract with the Pelicans through bankruptcy court. [5]
On September 17, 2024, the Pelicans announced that Gray Television would become the exclusive home of local Pelicans games beginning with the 2024–25 NBA season. In order to air games across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, Gray announced that all games would air on the soon-to-launch Gulf Coast Sports & Entertainment Network, which would mostly be available on digital subchannels. [6] [7] The network launched on October 2, 2024. [8] [9]
The network is primarily available on local over-the-air stations, but can also be watched on Cox Cable, Fubo TV and Mediacom. [10] [11] [12] [13]
City of license / Market | Station | Virtual channel | Primary affiliation (on main channel) [8] [14] |
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Alexandria, Louisiana | KLGC-LD | 25.2 | The CW |
KALB-TV | 5.4 | NBC | |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana | WAFB | 9.3 | CBS |
Biloxi, Mississippi | WTBL-LD | 51.3 | MeTV |
WLOX | 13.6 | ABC | |
Birmingham, Alabama | WBRC | 6.3 | Fox |
Hattiesburg, Mississippi | WLHA-LD | 18.2 | Telemundo |
WDAM-TV | 7.5 | NBC | |
Jackson, Mississippi | WLBT | 3.3 | NBC |
Lafayette, Louisiana (Pelicans games only) | KXKW-LD | 32.1 | The Action Channel |
Lake Charles, Louisiana | KGCH-LD | 32.1 | N/A |
Meridian, Mississippi | WOOK-LD | 15.5 | Telemundo |
WTOK-TV | 11.5 | ABC | |
Mobile, Alabama | WALA-TV | 10.5 | Fox |
Monroe, Louisiana | KCWL-LD | 24.1 | N/A |
KNOE-TV | 8.3 | CBS | |
Montgomery, Alabama | WSFA | 12.3 | NBC |
New Orleans, Louisiana | WVUE-DT | 7.1 | Fox |
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Shreveport, Louisiana | KSLA | 12.2 | CBS |
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