MIAMI, September 30 — The Miami HEAT officially kick off broadcast coverage of their 29th season on Saturday, October 1st with the first edition of HEAT Weekly, a one-hour program hosted by HEAT Radio Network host, Tommy Tighe. The show, airing at 10:00 a.m. on The Ticket each Saturday, features interviews with HEAT broadcasters, players, coaches and basketball front office personalities and can once again be heard throughout the weekend on the member stations of the Miami HEAT Radio Network.
Long time broadcast partner, FOX Sports Sun, kicks off its 24th consecutive season of broadcasting HEAT basketball with the team's preseason opener on Tuesday, October 4th as the HEAT travel to Washington to take on the Wizards at 7:00 p.m. The game is the first of six the team's exclusive broadcast partner will bring to HEAT fans during the exhibition season. The local preseason schedule includes coverage of the team's matchup vs. the new-look Brooklyn Nets on October 11th, a contest against the five-time NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs on October 14th and a matchup with its intra-state rivals, the Orlando Magic, on October 18th. Other highlights include coverage of the October 20th game in Charlotte, and the preseason finale in Philadelphia on Friday, October 21st featuring the top 2016 NBA Draft pick, Ben Simmons. All six preseason games scheduled to be televised on FOX Sports Sun will also be streamed live on the FOX Sports GO app.
In total, six of the team's eight preseason contests will be televised, with the Oct 8th preseason game in Kansas City and the Oct 15th game in Louisville–both against the Timberwolves–being the lone “radio-only” broadcasts.
Complete radio coverage of every HEAT game during the 2016 preseason can be found on the team's flagship station in English, AM 790 and FM 104.3 HD2 The Ticket. Mike Inglis returns for his 19th season to handle the call and will be joined by former HEAT point guard and current radio and TV analyst, John Crotty, for all home games.
The man who has broadcast more games than any announcer in HEAT history, La Voz–Jose Paneda–begins his 28th season of calling the action in Spanish as HEAT basketball returns to Radio Mambi 710 AM. Paneda and broadcast partner Joe Pujala will cover each of the team's three home preseason games on October 11th, 18th and 21st.
The HEAT will continue their tradition of live internet broadcasting as HEATV on HEAT.com by televising the Red, White & Pink Game presented by Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida. The HEAT broadcast team, led by Eric Reid, Tony Fiorentino and Jason Jackson, will anchor coverage of the team's open scrimmage on Monday, October 10th at 7:30 p.m. live on HEAT.com. AM 790 The Ticket will also air a special radio broadcast live from the event, which will be hosted by Jonathan Zaslow.
Below is the full preseason broadcast schedule.
** HEAT Weekly airs every Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on AM 790 The Ticket and at various times throughout the weekend on the memberstations of the HEAT Radio Network. The HEAT Radio Network includes ESPN 106.3 FM in West Palm Beach, Southwest Florida's FOX Sports Radio AM 1240 WFWN in Ft. Myers and AM 1270, FM 97.3 WNOG in Naples, WPSL 1590 AM in Port St. Lucie and Keys Radio WKWF AM 1600 and WAVK 97.7 FM “The Wave.”
