List of Arizona Coyotes broadcasters
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This is a list of Arizona Coyotes broadcasters from the National Hockey League.
On-air staff
From the team's move to Phoenix in 1996 to the end of the 2006–07 season, the regional television rights for the Phoenix Coyotes were split between Fox Sports Arizona[1] and over-the-air broadcasters including KTVK and KASW (channel 61, 1996–2006)[2][3] and KAZT-TV (channel 7, 2006–2008).[4]
From 2007–08 through 2022–23, Fox Sports Arizona (renamed Bally Sports Arizona in 2021) was the exclusive regional television rightsholder since 2008 for all non-national telecasts.[5] For the final season in 2023–2024, the Coyotes moved to Scripps Sports, with games being broadcast on KNXV-TV 15.2.[6] Partway through the season, co-owned KASW became the team's flagship station when it was relaunched as Arizona 61.[7]
Scripps retained the rights to the team when it relocated to Salt Lake City and became the Utah Hockey Club (later Utah Mammoth).[8] It had broadcast Coyotes games on KUPX-TV in Salt Lake City.[9]
| Years | Play-by-play | Color commentators |
|---|---|---|
| 1996–02 | Doug McLeod | Charlie Simmer[10] |
| 2002–04 | Curt Keilback | Charlie Simmer[11] |
| 2005–07 | Curt Keilback[12] | Darren Pang[13] |
| 2007–09 | Dave Strader | Darren Pang[14] |
| 2009–11 | Dave Strader | Tyson Nash[15] |
| 2011–21 | Matt McConnell[16] | Tyson Nash |
| 2021–24 | Matt McConnell |
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The Coyotes' initial TV broadcast team consisted of Doug McLeod, former Pittsburgh Penguins, Minnesota North Stars, and Minnesota Golden Gophers announcer,[17] and Charlie Simmer.[10] Curt Keilback, who moved with the team from Winnipeg initially as its radio play-by-play voice,[17] replaced McLeod in 2002 as part of a plan to simulcast radio and television.[18] Simmer departed to pursue business interests in Calgary and was replaced as analyst by Darren Pang in 2005.[13] In 2007, Dave Strader replaced Keilback, whose contract was not renewed, as the play-by-play announcer.[14] With no television contract in place for Coyotes games, Pang left in 2009 to join the St. Louis Blues,[19][20] and Strader was joined in the broadcast booth by former NHL player Tyson Nash.[15] In July 2011, Strader left his position with the Coyotes to accept a full-time job with NBC/Versus.[21] From 2011 until the team's relocation in 2024, Matt McConnell served as play-by-play announcer.[16] McConnell followed the team to Salt Lake City.[22]
