{"id":557792,"date":"2026-03-24T16:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/557792\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:07:08","slug":"detroit-tigers-putting-finishing-touches-on-tv-situation-for-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/557792\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers putting finishing touches on TV situation for Opening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The Tigers are \u201cputting together the finishing touches\u201d on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/02\/ilitch-launches-detroit-sportsnet-for-tigers-red-wings-local-broadcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/02\/ilitch-launches-detroit-sportsnet-for-tigers-red-wings-local-broadcasts\/\">move to Detroit SportsNet<\/a> ahead of Thursday\u2019s Opening Day game in San Diego against the Padres, according to Tony Paul of the DETROIT NEWS. Though the linear TV situation is \u201cgoing down to the wire,\u201d Tigers VP\/Communications &amp; Broadcasting Ben Fidelman \u201cclarified\u201d the situation in a long post on social media Sunday, explaining that Detroit SportsNet is \u201clikely to be available via all cable companies that carried FanDuel.\u201d He said it could \u201ccome as late as the morning of Opening Day.\u201d FanDuel Sports Network Detroit was available on most major cable providers as part of a higher-tier package. Fidelman said that big cable companies, like Xfinity, DirecTV and others, are \u201clikely to be on board with Detroit SportsNet, with MLB Media handling the distribtution negotiations\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/tigers\/2026\/03\/23\/detroit-tigers-tv-logistics-going-down-to-the-wire\/89281774007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/tigers\/2026\/03\/23\/detroit-tigers-tv-logistics-going-down-to-the-wire\/89281774007\/\">DETROIT NEWS, 3\/23<\/a>). In Michigan, Evan Woodbery wrote it is \u201chardly ideal,\u201d but after the Tigers cut ties with Main Street Sports Group, parent company of FanDuel Sports Detroit, they were \u201cforced to secure new distribution agreements with every provider\u201d that previously carried FDSD. As is often the case, many of those talks are \u201cgoing down to the wire\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/tigers\/2026\/03\/what-tigers-fans-should-know-about-detroit-sportsnet-as-opening-day-nears.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/tigers\/2026\/03\/what-tigers-fans-should-know-about-detroit-sportsnet-as-opening-day-nears.html\">MLIVE.com, 3\/23<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">NEW ROLE: Paul in a separate piece reported broadcaster Greg Gania is \u201cexpected to call 30 or more games\u201d on Tigers radio in 2026, filling in when longtime team radio voice Dan Dickerson slides over to television &#8212; when TV voice Jason Benetti is off on national assignments. Gania is entering his third year as a full-time fill-in on Tigers broadcasts. He will \u201ccall his first major-league Opening Day\u201d on Thursday when the Tigers play the Padres. Benetti will miss that game so he can call NBC\u2019s opening game between the Dodgers and D-backs, so Dickerson \u201cwill do TV for the Tigers on the new Detroit SportsNet\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/tigers\/2026\/03\/23\/detroit-tigers-radio-pinch-hitter-greg-gania-gets-first-opening-day-assignment\/89281820007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/tigers\/2026\/03\/23\/detroit-tigers-radio-pinch-hitter-greg-gania-gets-first-opening-day-assignment\/89281820007\/\">DETROIT NEWS, 3\/23<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers are \u201cputting together the finishing touches\u201d on their move to Detroit SportsNet ahead of Thursday\u2019s Opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,75,462,82],"class_list":["post-557792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}