Phoenix Suns Offer Free TV Antennas For Local Broadcasts

By Phillip Swann
The TV Answer Man – @tvanswerman

The Phoenix Suns, which will play 70 games this season on local and free channels, is giving away free indoor antennas to help fans tune in. The team, which began the promotion yesterday, tells ESPN that it already has to order more. You can sign up for your free antenna here. The antenna is valued at $20. (The antenna may be sold out now. If so, try again later when the team has restocked.)

Below are the local channels that will broadcast the Suns games this season:
Phoenix – 3TV (Channel 3), Family Sports (Channel 44 or 3.5 on cable and satellite)
Flagstaff – 3TV (Channel 3), Family Sports (Channel 32 or 3.5 on cable or satellite).
Tucson – Family Sports (Channel 13.5).
Yuma – Family Sports (KAZS Channel 27).

You can see the entire Suns broadcast schedule here.

Kiswe will stream the 70 games as well with the rest scheduled for national networks such as ESPN and TNT. The Suns say they will provide pricing details on Kiswe closer to the season which begins in October. Cox Cable will carry the Family Sports channels in Phoenix, Tucson and Flagstaff. The team says it’s negotiating more carriage deals with pay TV providers. Update: The site now says Dish, DIRECTV, YouTube TV will also carry games.

The Suns and the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury announced in April that they had signed a deal with local broadcaster Gray to air their entire regular seasons on local Arizona TV channels starting with the 2023-23 season. Diamond Sports, the owner of 18 Bally Sports regional sports channels, including Bally Sports Arizona, objected to the Suns portion of the deal, saying it had the right to match the Gray offer under a provision in its expired agreement with the basketball team. After a court filing by Diamond, the two companies settled their differences, allowing the Suns to go forward with the local TV deal. The Suns say 2.8 million Arizona households will have access to the games via the local channels which can be seen for free with an antenna.

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— Phillip Swann
@tvanswerman