SportSouth to televise Hawks-Bucks April 16
ATLANTA -- SportSouth, a FOX Sports South Regional Network, has announced it will televise the Atlanta Hawks final regular season game at the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday, April 16. Extended coverage will start with Hawks LIVE at 7:30 p.m. ET, and Hawks LIVE postgame coverage will air immediately following the game.
Play-by-play man Bob Rathbun, color analyst Dominique Wilkins and sideline reporter Kayce Smith will call the action from the Bradley Center. The Hawks, currently in eighth place, are pushing for a seventh consecutive playoff berth, which would be the longest current streak in the Eastern Conference.
The game will be available on SportSouth in Georgia, Alabama (excluding the Mobile and Huntsville DMAs), Tennessee (excluding the Nashville, Memphis and Jackson DMAs), the Charleston, Augusta and Savannah DMA of South Carolina, the counties of Graham, Jackson, Macon and Swain in the Greenville-Spartanburg DMA of North Carolina, and the counties of Abbeville, Anderson and Oconee in Greenville-Spartanburg DMA.
The FOX Sports regional networks serving the Southeast â FOX Sports South, FOX Sports Tennessee, FOX Sports Carolinas and SportSouth â collectively reach more 13 million cable and satellite households in seven states across the Southeast. They are the television home of the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Dream, Atlanta Hawks, Carolina Hurricanes, Charlotte Bobcats, Memphis Grizzlies, Nashville Predators, Cincinnati Reds, Indiana Pacers, New Orleans Pelicans, and St. Louis Cardinals, as well as the Atlantic Coast Conference, Conference USA, Southeastern Conference, and Big 12 Conference, and offer expanded coverage of the University of Kentucky, University of South Carolina and University of Tennessee. Combined, the four networks produce more than 800 live local events and televise more than 1400 live local events each year. For more information, please visit FOXSportsSouth.com, FOXSportsTennessee.com, and FOXSportsCarolinas.com.