List of Arizona Coyotes broadcasters

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This is a list of Arizona Coyotes broadcasters from the National Hockey League.

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Television

As of the 2023–24 NHL season, Scripps Sports has regional television rights to the Arizona Coyotes. In the Phoenix market, games broadcast on KNXV-TV's Antenna TV-affiliated subchannel 15.2 serving as flagship station, with further affiliates planned for outlying areas of the team's designated market, which includes Utah and New Mexico. [1] [2] Partway through the season, KASW-TV became the flagship broadcast channel [3]

From its move to Phoenix in 1996 to the end of the 2006–07 season, the regional television rights for Arizona Coyotes were split between Fox Sports Arizona [4] and over-the-air broadcasters including KTVK and KASW (1996 - 2006) [5] [6] and KAZT-TV (2006 - 2008). [7]

From the 2007–08 NHL season until the 2023–24 NHL season, Bally Sports Arizona (formerly Fox Sports Arizona) was the exclusive regional television rightsholder since 2008 for all Arizona Coyotes games not broadcast nationally by NBCSN, NBC, ESPN, ABC, or TNT. [8]

Current television broadcast affiliates

Arizona Coyotes Television broadcast affiliates as of 2023
StationChannelMarketNotes
KASW 61.1 Phoenix, Arizona Flagship broadcaster
KGUN-TV 9.2 Tucson, Arizona
KUPX-TV 16.1 Salt Lake City, Utah
KSTU 13.2 Salt Lake City, Utah Select games only
Albuquerque, New Mexico

On-air staff

Years Play-by-play Color commentators
1996–02 Doug McLeod Charlie Simmer
2002–04 Curt Keilback Charlie Simmer
2005–07 Curt Keilback [9] Darren Pang
2007–09 Dave Strader Darren Pang
2009–11 Dave Strader Tyson Nash
2011–21 Matt McConnell Tyson Nash
2021–24 Matt McConnell Tyson Nash (primary)
Lyndsey Fry (pre and post game)
Paul Bissonnette (pre and post game)

Strader was hired by the Phoenix Coyotes on July 2, 2007. He was reunited with his former ESPN and ABC partner, Darren Pang, for Coyotes broadcasts for two seasons. With no television contract in place for Coyotes games, Pang left in 2009 to join the St. Louis Blues. [10] [11] Strader was joined in the broadcast booth by former NHL player Tyson Nash. In July 2011, Strader left his position with the Coyotes to accept a full-time job with NBC/Versus. From 2011 until the team's closure in 2024, Matt McConnell was the play by play announcer for the Arizona Coyotes. [12]

Radio

Years Play-by-play Color commentators
1996–97 Curt Keilback [13] Steve Konroyd
1997–98 Curt Keilback Tom Kurvers [14]
1998–02 Curt Keilback Jim Johnson
2002–04 Curt Keilback Charlie Simmer
2005–08 Bob Heethius Louie DeBrusk
2008–14 Bob Heethius Tyson Nash
2014–17 Bob Heethius Nick Boynton
2017–2020 Bob Heethius Paul Bissonnette
2020–2024 Bob Heethius Lyndsey Fry [15]

In 2021, the Arizona Coyotes entered a two-year deal with Bonneville Phoenix to broadcast the team's games on the radio in the Phoenix market on either KMVP-FM or KTAR. [16] In 2023, the Arizona Coyotes extended the deal with Bonneville Phoenix by one-year. [17]

In 2019–20, KGME regained its contract as the flagship station of the Arizona Coyotes. Previously, the Coyotes games were broadcast on KMVP.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">KTVK</span> Independent TV station in Phoenix, Arizona

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">KNXV-TV</span> ABC affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona

KNXV-TV is a television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, affiliated with ABC. It was established in 1979 as the Phoenix area's second independent station with part-time subscription television programming from ON TV. It was originally owned by the New Television Corporation, which had attempted to set up the station for nearly five years prior to its launch. In 1985, Scripps-Howard Broadcasting, the broadcast division of the E. W. Scripps Company, acquired KNXV-TV. Channel 15 affiliated with Fox in 1986 and became the leading independent in the market, one of Fox's strongest affiliates. In 1994, Fox announced a multi-city affiliation agreement with New World Communications which included Phoenix's then-CBS affiliate, KSAZ-TV, and mostly CBS affiliates in several other major markets. CBS expressed interest in affiliating with Scripps's ABC affiliates in other cities and Scripps used this as leverage to force ABC to move its Phoenix affiliation from market leader KTVK to KNXV-TV beginning in January 1995.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">KASW</span> TV station in Phoenix, Arizona

KASW, branded Arizona 61, is an independent television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside ABC affiliate KNXV-TV. The two stations share studios on North 44th Street on the city's east side; KASW's primary transmitter is located on South Mountain.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">KGME</span> Radio station in Arizona, United States

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">KDUS</span> Radio station in Tempe, Arizona

KDUS is a commercial radio station licensed to Tempe, Arizona, and serving the Phoenix metropolitan area. It airs a sports radio format and is an affiliate of the Vegas Stats & Information Network, along with some programming from Fox Sports Radio. It is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc., with the license held by Phoenix FCC License Sub, LLC. Its studios are on North 52nd Street west of Papago Park.

KKFR is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Mayer, Arizona, and serves the Phoenix metropolitan area. The station is owned and operated by Riviera Broadcast Group and airs a rhythmic hot AC radio format. KKFR broadcasts with an effective radiated power of 41 kW. The station's studios are located on 7th Street in Midtown Phoenix and its transmitter is located in Crown King, Arizona, producing a rimshot signal from 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Phoenix. KKFR is the flagship station of the nationally syndicated program Big Boy's Neighborhood.

KTAR-FM is a commercial radio station licensed to Glendale, Arizona, and serving the Phoenix metropolitan area. It is owned by Salt Lake City–based Bonneville International, a profit-making division of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. KTAR-FM broadcasts a news/talk radio format.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bally Sports Arizona</span> American regional sports network (1996–2023)

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