FOX Sports North announces expanded Minnesota Lynx TV schedule
FOX Sports North and the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx announced a 17-game television schedule on Thursday for the 2017 season.
The regional sports network’s schedule includes an increased number of games with coverage planned for FOX Sports North, FOX Sports North PLUS, as well as FOX Sports GO. The 17-game schedule features the most games for the network in its 19 years of televising Lynx games and includes all home games.
“We have worked closely with the team and some of our key stakeholders in order to help expand coverage of this great game,” said Mike Dimond, Senior Vice President and General Manager of FOX Sports North. “We are especially proud to provide more Lynx coverage than ever before.”
FOX Sports North’s coverage begins on Sunday, May 14, with the Lynx’s home opener against Chicago.
DATE | DAY | OPPONENT | TIME |
May 14 | Sunday | Chicago | 6 p.m. |
May 20 | Saturday | at Dallas | 7 p.m. * |
May 28 | Sunday | San Antonio | 6 p.m. |
June 11 | Sunday | at Dallas | 3:30 p.m. +* |
June 17 | Saturday | Connecticut | 7 p.m. + |
June 25 | Sunday | San Antonio | 6 p.m. |
June 30 | Friday | at Phoenix | 9 p.m. +* |
July 16 | Sunday | Phoenix | 6 p.m. |
July 19 | Wednesday | Dallas | 12 p.m. ** |
July 28 | Friday | at Atlanta | 6:30 p.m. ** |
July 30 | Sunday | Seattle | 6 p.m. + |
Aug. 8 | Tuesday | at Atlanta | 6 p.m. +* |
Aug. 11 | Friday | Los Angeles | 7 p.m. + |
Aug. 18 | Friday | Indiana | 7 p.m. + |
Aug. 22 | Tuesday | Phoenix | 7 p.m. + |
Sept. 1 | Friday | Chicago | 7 p.m. + |
Sept. 3 | Sunday | Washington | 3 p.m. |
+ airs on FOX Sports North PLUS
*FOX Sports Simulcast
**Available exclusively via FOX Sports GO
This season marks the seventh consecutive season that Marney Gellner will serve as the television play-by-play announcer and the ninth year Lea. B. Olsen will serve as the Lynx television color analyst for FOX Sports North.
FOX Sports North reaches more than 2 million homes throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and North and South Dakota and telecasts nearly 2,600 hours of locally produced programming per year. Follow FOX Sports North on Facebook and Twitter.