{"id":369722,"date":"2026-08-12T21:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369722\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:24:07","slug":"where-can-you-watch-orlando-magic-games-for-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369722\/","title":{"rendered":"Where can you watch Orlando Magic games for 2026-27 season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/sports\/nba\/orlando-magic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a> will have a new television home thanks to a partnership with Cox Media Group, which will broadcast games on WRDQ-TV 27 and WFTV-Channel 9 for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, WRDQ-TV 27 will air most of the Magic\u2019s regular season games, excluding some national broadcasts, with a select few games airing on Channel 9.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced the move in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to partner with the Cox Media Group to serve as our over-the-air partner for live games, replays, pregame and postgame coverage, and original programming,\u201d Magic president of business operations Charlie Freeman said in a statement. \u201cWRDQ TV 27 and WFTV Channel 9 will provide Magic fans great access, strong consistency and a direct connection to the team all season long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the Magic had a deal with FanDuel Sports Network, as well as WESH 2 and CW 18 last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited for this partnership, which will make Magic basketball even more accessible to fans throughout Central Florida,\u201d WFTV\/WRDQ vice president and general manager Darren Moore said in a statement. \u201cCombining the brands of Central Florida\u2019s news leader and the Orlando Magic together will foster a commitment to delivering high-quality local sports programming and creating new avenues for fans to connect with the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dante Marchitelli will serve as the full-time play-by-play voice of the Magic, with former Magic forward Jeff Turner as analyst and Kendra Douglas as team reporter.<\/p>\n<p>A complete station lineup and broadcast schedule will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Magic are also working on a deal to establish a direct-to-consumer streaming partnership in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Email Matt Murschel at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/08\/12\/orlando-magic-nba-basketball-over-the-air-tv-partnership-wrdq-tv-27-wftv-channel-9\/mailto:mmurschel@orlandosentinel.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mmurschel@orlandosentinel.com<\/a> or follow him on X at @osmattmurschel.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Magic will have a new television home thanks to a partnership with Cox Media Group, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,2295,139,141,1239,140,109,76046,110],"class_list":["post-369722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-latest-headlines","tag-nba","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlando-news","tag-social","tag-social-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369722","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=369722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}