List of Vegas Golden Knights broadcasters

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This is a list of Vegas Golden Knights broadcasters from the National Hockey League.

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Television

As of the 2023–24 NHL season, Scripps Sports holds local market rights to the Golden Knights. In the Las Vegas market, games will air on KMCC, with further affiliates planned for outlying areas of the team's designated market, which includes Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, and parts of Arizona and California. [1] [2] Dave Goucher and Shane Hnidy are the Golden Knights' commentators. [1]

Prior to the 2023–24 NHL season, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain was the regional television rightsholder for all Golden Knights games not broadcast nationally by NBCSN, NBC, ESPN, ABC, or TNT (including its 2023 Stanley Cup Championship appearance). [2] [3] [4] Golden Knights games on AT&T SportsNet were called by former Boston Bruins radio announcer Dave Goucher on play-by-play, and Shane Hnidy, who previously worked color for the Winnipeg Jets on TSN. [5]

KTNV-TV [6] broadcasts games only during the preseason, as well as if the games are part of ABC's national contract with the NHL.

Current broadcast affiliates

Golden Knights broadcast affiliates as of 2023 [1]
StationChannelMarket
KMCC 34.1 Las Vegas, Nevada (flagship)
Idaho
KIVI-TV 6.2 [7] Boise
Idaho Falls
KSAW-LD 6.2 [7] Twin Falls
Montana (MTN) [8]
KTVQ 2.2 Billings
KXLF-TV-KBZK 4.2-7.2 Butte-Bozeman
Glendive
KRTV 3.2 Great Falls
KTVH-DT 12.2 Helena
KPAX-TV 8.2 Missoula
Nevada
KNSN-TV 21.1 [9] Reno
Utah
KUPX-TV 16.1 [10] Salt Lake City
Wyoming
Casper-Riverton
Cheyenne-Scottsbluff

Current on-air staff

Radio

The team has a three-year radio deal with Lotus Broadcasting. [12] Lotus airs the team's games on its Fox Sports Radio affiliate, KKGK 1340/98.9. [12] KKGK fronts a network of nine stations across Nevada, California, Arizona, and Utah. [13] Dan D'Uva and Gary Lawless were announced as the Golden Knights' first radio play-by-play announcer and color commentator respectively.

It was also announced that KLAV's FM translator K255CT would switch to a simulcast of KKGK (then KRLV) on 98.9 FM. [14]

One game a week is also aired on the company's ESPN Deportes Radio affiliate, KENO 1460, making the team one of only three in the NHL to offer Spanish-language broadcasts. [15] And Jesus Lopez and Herbert Castro provide play-by-play and color commentary respectively on KENO.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "VGK and Scripps Partner on Multi-Year Agreement to Air NHL Team's Games". NHL.com. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
  2. 1 2 "Golden Knights officially announce TV deal with Root Sports". Las Vegas Review-Journal. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "Root Sports to become official television home of the Vegas Golden Knights" (Press release). AT&T SportsNet. May 23, 2017. Retrieved September 19, 2017.
  4. ↑ Granger, Jesse (May 22, 2017). "Root Sports to be TV home of Vegas Golden Knights". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved September 19, 2017.
  5. 1 2 "Golden Knights name first TV, radio broadcasters". Las Vegas Sun. 2017-08-15. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  6. ↑ "All VGK Preseason Games to Air on KTNV". NHL.com. Retrieved September 12, 2019.
  7. 1 2 "How to Watch: Boise 6 and Twin Falls 6". Idaho News 6. October 9, 2023. Retrieved October 10, 2023.
  8. ↑ "MTN launches as Montana home of Vegas Golden Knights, will air Big Sky Conference football games". KTVQ. September 20, 2023. Retrieved September 21, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Nevada Sports Net to broadcast 75 Vegas Golden Knights games in 2023-24". Nevada Sports Net. Retrieved September 21, 2023.
  10. ↑ "Stanley Cup champions stop in Ogden on 'road trip'". Fox 13. Retrieved September 13, 2023.
  11. ↑ "Golden Knights announce first ever television and radio broadcasters". Vegas Golden Knights. 2017-08-16. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
  12. 1 2 "Golden Knights, Lotus Broadcasting happy with partnership". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  13. ↑ "Broadcast Affiliates". National Hockey League. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  14. ↑ "Fox Sports 1340 Las Vegas To Add FM With Addition Of Golden Knights Hockey". Radio Insight. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  15. ↑ "By broadcasting select games in Spanish, Golden Knights aim to reach new demographic". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
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