Detroit — Detroit SportsNet, the Tigers’ new home for television game broadcasts, will debut Thursday for the season opener.
The Tigers and Major League Baseball on Wednesday announced three of the cable distribution agreements have been finalized for in-market customers:
Those cable companies and channels are as follows:
Comcast/Xfinity: Channel 1253
Charter/Spectrum: Channel 213 (Detroit, Flint-Saginaw, Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo, Lansing, Traverse City, Marquette, Alpena, Duluth-Superior); Channel 291 (Livonia); Channel 307 or 1307 (Toledo, Fort Wayne, Green Bay-Appleton); Channel 436 (through the Spectrum app)
DirecTV: Channel 663-3 (U-verse 739 or 1739)
The Tigers’ season opener against the San Diego Padres is 4:10 p.m. Thursday. MLB Media is now handling the Tigers’ broadcast distribution. All cable and streaming companies that carry the Tigers’ former broadcast home, FanDuel Sports Network Detroit, are expected to carry the new channel, and have it available on the same tier package with a similar channel number. That will include Fubo, among others.
For in-market fans who don’t have cable but want Detroit SportsNet for Tigers games, it is available via streaming at Tigers.com/DetroitSportsNet, starting at $189.99 for the year or $19.99 a month.
For out-of-market customers, games are available on cable through “Extra Innings” packages, and via streaming through MLB.TV.
Starting in 2026-27, Red Wings broadcasts also will move to Detroit SportsNet, with FanDuel Sports Network Detroit’s parent company, Main Street Sports Group, set to cease operations at the end of the NHL and NBA seasons.
The Pistons, also on FanDuel Sports Network Detroit through the end of their season, haven’t yet announced their future broadcasting plans.
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This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: Here’s where you can find Tigers games on Xfinity, Spectrum, DirecTV
Reporting by Tony Paul, The Detroit News / The Detroit News
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