{"id":25371,"date":"2025-10-29T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/25371\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:24:08","slug":"ten-orlando-magic-games-to-be-simulcast-over-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/25371\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Orlando Magic games to be simulcast over-the-air"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT \u2014 Grab your old TV antenna Magic<\/a> fans, the NBA<\/a> will be back available over-the-air in Orlando<\/a> and Tampa this season.<\/p>\n

The Magic, WESH 2, CW18, WMOR-TV and FanDuel Sports Network Florida announced a partnership Wednesday to simulcast 10 Magic games on a Hearst over-the-air station in Central Florida and in Tampa.<\/p>\n

Six of the games will air on WESH 2, while four will be telecast on CW18. All 10 will also be available on WMOR-TV in Tampa.<\/p>\n

Games simulcast on WESH 2, CW18 and WMOR-TV will mirror the broadcast on FanDuel Sports Network Florida, featuring hometown announcers \u2014 play-by-play voice David Steele, color commentator Jeff Turner, reporters Dante Marchitelli and Kendra Douglas \u2014 who will call the action throughout the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis agreement to bring Orlando Magic games to over-the-air television is a way to put our exciting, up-and-coming team in front of even more of our fans,\u201d Magic president of business operations Charlie Freeman<\/a> said in a statement. \u201cWe want to thank our partners at WESH 2, CW18, WMOR-TV, Hearst Television and FanDuel Sports Network for this great opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The games to be simulcast on over-the-air television are:<\/p>\n

Sunday, Nov. 16, 7 p.m., at Houston, CW18
\nSunday, Dec. 7, Noon, at New York, CW18
\nSaturday, Dec. 27, 7 p.m., vs. Denver, WESH 2
\nFriday, Jan. 2, 8 p.m., at Chicago, WESH 2
\nSaturday, Jan. 24, 7 p.m., vs. Cleveland, WESH 2
\nSunday, Feb. 1, 4 p.m., at San Antonio, CW18
\nSaturday, Mar. 14, 8 p.m., at Miami, WESH 2
\nFriday, Apr. 3, 8:30 p.m., at Dallas, WESH 2
\nSunday, Apr. 5, 7 p.m., at New Orleans, CW18
\nFriday, Apr. 10, 8 p.m., at Chicago, WESH 2<\/p>\n

WESH 2, CW18 and WMOR-TV are owned by Hearst Television, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst, a leading media company. Hearst Television owns and\/or manages 35 television stations and two radio stations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis partnership reflects a shared commitment to delivering high-quality local sports programming and creating new opportunities for fans to connect with the team they love,\u201d president and general Manager of WESH 2 and CW18 John Soapes said.<\/p>\n

The simulcast games will still be available for fans to watch on FanDuel Sports Network Florida, the FanDuel Sports Network app and FanDuelSportsNetwork.com, the team said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPartnering with the Magic and Hearst is an excellent opportunity to put our telecasts in front of more viewers, so they can see this exciting Magic team and our top-notch productions,\u201d executive vice president of team partnerships for FanDuel Sports Network Florida\/Sun Damon Phillips said.<\/p>\n

FanDuel Sports Network Florida is scheduled to produce and broadcast at least 71 Magic games during the 2025-26 regular season.<\/p>\n

Jason Beede can be reached at jbeede@orlandosentinel.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2014 Grab your old TV antenna Magic fans, the NBA will be back available over-the-air in Orlando…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,2295,139,141,1239,140,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-25371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-magic","13":"tag-orlando-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25371","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=25371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}