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FOX Sports Southeast to Televise 80 Hawks Games for 2019-20 NBA Season

Schedule to include Season Opener on October 24 and Home Opener on October 26 with Hawks LIVE expanded coverage

Network to televise Hawks vs Pelicans preseason game on October 7 featuring NBA debut of De’Andre Hunter, , ,

Rathbun, Wilkins, Aldridge, Jurenovich and Glenn return to broadcast team

ATLANTA (October 2, 2019) – FOX Sports Southeast, exclusive regional broadcaster of the , will televise 80 regular season games during the 2019-20 NBA season. All games televised on the network will also be available on the FOX Sports GO app, and all telecasts will be anchored by the network’s flagship pre- and postgame show, Hawks LIVE, delivering expert insight and analysis before and after each game.

To begin the regular season, FOX Sports Southeast will televise the Hawks’ season opener on Thursday, October 24, at the . The network will then present a special one- hour edition of Hawks LIVE prior to the team’s home opener on Saturday, October 26, against the . Coverage for both games will begin at 6:30 p.m. ET.

Prior to the season opener, the network will also deliver special coverage of three Hawks preseason contests, beginning with a match-up versus the on Monday, October 7, at 7:30 pm ET. The game will feature the NBA debut of four top ten draft picks: Hawks forwards De’Andre Hunter and Cam Reddish along with Pelicans forward Zion Williamson and Jaxson Hayes. The network’s preseason Hawks schedule will also include the Orlando Magic on Wednesday, October 9, and the on Monday, October 14, both at 7:30 p.m. ET.

FOX Sports Southeast’s legendary broadcast team – whose accolades include Emmy® Awards, Hall of Fame inductions, and a statue in front of – will continue to deliver in-depth Hawks coverage, featuring Emmy winner Bob Rathbun (@BobRathbunTV), the longest tenured TV play-by-play announcer in Hawks history, returning for his 24th season. He will be joined by analyst and Naismith Memorial Hall of Famer (@DWilkins21), who will return for his eleventh season, and Andre Aldridge (@Voceroy), in his ninth season as sideline reporter.

Hawks LIVE will be hosted by Emmy winner Jerome Jurenovich (@JeromeOnSports) alongside analyst and Georgia Sports Hall of Famer Mike “Stinger” Glenn.

The complete television schedule is attached and local channel listings can be found here.

Atlanta Hawks on FOX Sports Southeast FOX Sports Southeast is the exclusive regional broadcaster of the Atlanta Hawks, televising 80 games during the 2019-20 NBA season to over 6 million households across Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee. Atlanta Hawks content from the network is available year-round on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

FOX Sports GO FOX Sports GO is currently available on mobile and tablet devices, including iOS and Android as well as foxsportsgo.com. FOX Sports GO is also available on connected devices including, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Google Chromecast, Roku Players and Roku TV, and Xbox One. Fans can download the app for free from the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Amazon App Store, Roku App Store, XBOX One App Store and Windows App Store.

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