{"id":484491,"date":"2026-03-04T08:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/484491\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:15:50","slug":"ilitch-sports-launches-detroit-sportsnet-as-home-of-tigers-and-red-wings-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/484491\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilitch Sports launches Detroit SportsNet as home of Tigers and Red Wings broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit SportsNet, a newly launched cable\/satellite television channel, has announced it will be the broadcast home of the Detroit Tigers for their 2026 season and the Detroit Red Wings for their 2026-27 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The channel is expected to be available as part of cable \/ satellite TV packages throughout Michigan and for in-market streaming via the MLB app, Ilitch Sports + Entertainment announced Monday. The company owns both the Tigers and Red Wings franchies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Detroit Tigers will play their first regular-season MLB game on March 26 against the San Diego Padres, and host their home opener April 3, hosting the St. Louis Cardinals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers broadcast team will feature Jason Benetti and Dan Dickerson on play-by-play; with Andy Dirks and Dan Petry as analysts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A list of service providers carrying Detroit SportsNet and their channel assignments will be shared after negotiations are complete.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Red Wings will continue their broadcast schedule for the 2025-26 season on FanDuel Sports Network. The change to Detroit SportsNet will happen afterwards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Red Wings broadcast team will feature Ken Daniels and Mickey Redmond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Details on how to stream the 2026-27 Red Wings games will be announced later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The MLB is handling broadcast production for over a dozen teams this year, including in Detroit. The Tigers previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/news\/tigers-red-wings-broadcast-deal-mlb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\">had decided to end a partnership<\/a>\u00a0with Main Street Sports Group, which operates the regional FanDuel Sports Network stations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The above video originally aired on Feb. 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit SportsNet, a newly launched cable\/satellite television channel, has announced it will be the broadcast home of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,93,5752,5137,5,4,3358,5138,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-484491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-red-wings","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-detroitredwings","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-red-wings","15":"tag-redwings","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116169918917152400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}