Detroit Lions Television Network
The Detroit Lions Television Network is a network of six television stations in Michigan that broadcast the NFL's Detroit Lions preseason games as well as its weekly regular season pregame show The Ford Lions Report. As of 2011, WXYZ-TV in Detroit is the flagship station. [1]
Affiliates
The stations in the network and the areas they serve are: [2]
* Due to E/I requirements, WNEM-TV does not air The Ford Lions Report; its sister station WNEM-DT2 does so instead.
Pre-season games
The network carries all preseason games, except those picked for national broadcast by CBS or Fox. WXYZ-TV has announced all games will be in high definition.[1] WNEM-TV and WSYM-TV also air games in high definition. The announcers are Matt Shepard with play-by-play, Rob Rubick with color commentary, and Tom Leyden with sideline reports. [1] Because of the NFL's local television blackout policy, Lions home games that do not sell out 72 hours before the game are not permitted to be broadcast live on stations whose normal coverage area is within 75 miles of the stadium (specifically WXYZ-TV, WNEM-TV, and WSYM-TV) [2] so they are broadcast on tape delay on those stations. However, all Lions road games are broadcast live on all affiliates.
The Ford Lions Report
The Ford Lions Report is a live regular season pre-game show from the game site and WXYZ-TV's studio. On WXYZ-TV the show is 60 minutes, however the affiliates only air the second half of it. Don Shane is the host, Rob Rubick is the analyst, Matt Shepard (joined by Charlie Sanders for home games and and Tony Ortiz for road games) serve as the field reporters, Tom Leyden does post-practice locker room interviews, Mike Valenti and Tom Leyden do the fantasy football report and game preview, and Brad Galli does special features. The show also includes interviews with Lions head coach Jim Schwartz by Don Shane and a one-on-one teammate interview by wide receiver Nate Burleson with a different player each week.[1] It also includes highlights from the previous game with players wired for sound coupled with the Detroit Lions Radio Network's Dan Miller's play-by-play.
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