Hawks Announce TV Plans

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    <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Sixty-one Thrashers games and 75 Hawks games will be televised this season on the two Atlanta-based, Fox-owned regional sports cable networks.

    The Thrashers games will be on the to-be-renamed Turner South, which Fox Cable Networks bought earlier this year from Turner Broadcasting, while the Hawks games will be split between Turner South and FSN South.

    games, in its $375 million purchase of Turner South.

    Turner Broadcasting, which previously controlled the Hawks and Thrashers television rights, opted in recent seasons to farm out many of the games to "i" TV, formerly PAX-TV. Fox will not do that, said Jeff Genthner, vice president and general manager of FSN South and Turner South.

    "One of the big advantages is that all of the local televised Hawks and Thrashers games are under one roof and will be on one of two networks," he said.</div>

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