VGK TV broadcaster Dave Goucher. Photo credit: J. Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com
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Final Local TV Broadcast Of Vegas Golden Golden Knights On AT&T SportsNet For Season; VGK’s TV Future Will Be Announced May 4

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer

When the Vegas Golden Knights knocked out the Winnipeg Jets from the Stanley Cup playoffs Thursday and advanced to Round 2, workers for the TV network that broadcasts VGK games to Las Vegas and other markets must have experienced a variety of emotions.

They covered the Golden Knights’ Game 5 series-clinching win as pros while knowing it was their final playoff broadcast this season with team TV broadcaster AT&T SportsNet/Rocky Mountain West.

Knights knocked out Winnipeg from the playoffs Thursday. Photo credit: Omer Khan/LVSportsBiz.com

VGK TV play-by-play broadcaster Dave Goucher informed viewers after the Knights’ win Thursday that it was the final game on AT&T SportsNet for the season. The local/regional TV future is unknown for VGK.

After the game, members of the broadcast team were on the ice.

On social media, Golden Knights TV crew member Ashali Vise, who covers the team, used the term, “bittersweet,” to describe the final game of the season for herself and her co-workers.

VGK owner Bill Foley is quite an entrepreneurial businessman. He has put together a sports group of his sports teams, wine properties, restaurants and hospitality interests, so creating his own TV network to broadcast and promote his empire of brands could be a possibility if there is enough volume of programming.

Foley named AT&T SportsNet as the team TV rights holder right before Season 1 began in 2017.

 

Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.

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