Hearst Television stations in four Florida television markets will carry 10 Tampa Bay Rays games during the 2026 season under a new agreement with the team. The games will air on WMOR-TV (Tampa), WESH-TV and WKCF-TV\/CW18 (Orlando), the MeTV multicast channel of WPBF-TV (West Palm Beach), and WBBH-TV, WZVN-TV, and WBBH\u2019s Heroes and Icons (H&I) multicast channel (Fort Myers-Naples).<\/p>\n
Hearst Television owns WMOR, WESH, WKCF, WPBF, and WBBH, and manages WZVN on behalf of Montclair Communications, Inc. Coverage begins with the Rays\u2019 home opener in St. Petersburg on April 6.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis partnership combines the Rays\u2019 outstanding popularity and brand with Hearst Television\u2019s powerful array of stations throughout Central and South Florida, one of many strong regional concentrations across our national footprint of nearly three dozen stations,\u201d says Shannon Coggins, Vice President, Programming, Hearst Television. \u201cLocal broadcast television remains the ideal platform for sports organizations to connect with fans at scale.\u201d<\/p>\n
WESH, WKCF, and WMOR also broadcast 10 Orlando Magic games this season in partnership with FanDuel Sports Network Florida.<\/p>\n
2026 Tampa Bay Rays Broadcast Schedule (all times ET)<\/p>\n
DateMatchupTimeStationsMonday, April 6vs. Chicago Cubs4 p.m.WMOR, CW18, WPBF\u2019s MeTV, Gulf Coast ABCFriday, April 24vs. Minnesota7 p.m.WMOR, WESH 2, WPBF\u2019s MeTV, Gulf Coast H&IFriday, May 8at Boston7 p.m.WMOR, WESH 2, WPBF\u2019s MeTV, Gulf Coast ABCSunday, May 24at New York Yankees1:30 p.m.WMOR, CW18, WPBF\u2019s MeTV, Gulf Coast NBCFriday, June 5at Miami7 p.m.WMOR, WESH 2, WPBF\u2019s MeTV, Gulf Coast H&IFriday, June 19vs. Washington7 p.m.WMOR, WESH 2, WPBF\u2019s MeTV, Gulf Coast H&IFriday, July 17at Boston7 p.m.WMOR, WESH 2, WPBF\u2019s MeTV, Gulf Coast ABCThursday, July 23at Toronto3 p.m.WMOR, CW18, WPBF\u2019s MeTV, Gulf Coast ABCSunday, August 9at Seattle4 p.m.WMOR, CW18, WPBF\u2019s MeTV, Gulf Coast ABCWednesday, August 12at the Athletics3 p.m.WMOR, CW18, WPBF\u2019s MeTV, Gulf Coast ABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hearst Television stations in four Florida television markets will carry 10 Tampa Bay Rays games during the 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-216099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}