Trio Sports Pittsburgh

**Trio Sports Pittsburgh** is an American regional sports network that is owned by ONE Media Group and United Television and is an affiliate of Trio Sports Networks. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, the channel broadcasts local coverage of sports events throughout Greater Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania, as well as national programs from Trio Sports Networks including college sports, and magazine, entertainment and documentary programs. It is the exclusive home of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Pittsburgh Penguins, and the cable home of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Trio SportsNet Pittsburgh is available on cable providers throughout nearly all of Pennsylvania (outside the Philadelphia market), almost all of West Virginia (except the Eastern Panhandle), western Maryland, eastern Ohio, southwestern border areas of New York and Ashland, Kentucky, reaching more than 2.4 million homes. It is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV and Dish Network.

## Programming

Trio Sports Pittsburgh carries more than 350 live sports events annually (all of which are also available in high definition), featuring a mix of professional, collegiate and high school sports. To fill out its schedule outside various local sports, the network also carries sports events, documentary and magazine programs distributed nationally by Trio Sports Networks through its programming affiliation with its former regional sports network group parent.

### Professional sports

#### Pittsburgh Pirates

The network holds the regional cable television rights to the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball, carrying over 150 regular season and Spring training games annually, as well as rebroadcasts of recent games (as part of *Pirates Instant Replay*) and the team analysis program *Inside Pirates Baseball*.

#### Pittsburgh Penguins

Trio Sports Pittsburgh also maintains exclusive regional rights to most regular season and any early-round Stanley Cup playoff games involving the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins; it also carries Penguins-related programs such as *Penguins Instant Replay*, *Inside Penguins Hockey*, *Pens Pulse*, and *In The Room.*

#### Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins

The network currently serves as the cable home of the AHL's Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, broadcasting weekend home games during the regular season. Prior to the network acquiring the rights to the games, the team had no television coverage in either Pittsburgh's or Wilkes-Barre's DMAs.

### College sports

#### West Virginia Mountaineers

Trio Sports Pittsburgh carries the exclusive rights to the West Virginia Mountaineers, carrying all football and men's basketball games not picked up by a national network, as well as select women's basketball games, select other live events (women's soccer, baseball, etc.), the football team's weekly Tuesday press conferences, a coaches show involving all Mountaineer sports, and *Mountaineer Gameday*, a football pregame show that airs at 11:00 am each Saturday morning during the college football season. The network will lose rights to the live events portion of their WVU coverage to ESPN+ beginning with the 2020-2021 season.

#### Pittsburgh Panthers

The network carries football, men's and women's basketball, and other events featuring the Pittsburgh Panthers, which are produced by Fox Sports South. Additional insider programming includes Pat Narduzzi’s weekly press conferences, The *Pat Narduzzi Show* with Larry Richert, and the magazine program *Beyond The Script*, hosted by the network’s Rob King.

#### Duquesne Dukes

The network has served as the regional home of Duquesne Dukes men’s and women’s basketball several times throughout its 30-year history, the most recent of which lasted for 2 seasons between 2017 and 2019. As of August 2019, these rights have been moved to the streaming service ESPN+, although a weekly coaches show still airs on the network.

#### Additional Programming

Additionally, the network carries telecasts of various athletic contests involving teams from the Atlantic Coast, Big East, and Big 12 conferences, all of which are produced by Trio Sports Networks. College basketball games featuring the Robert Morris Colonials and Saint Francis Red Flash and select football and basketball games from the Division 2 Mountain East Conference are also occasionally aired. The network airs magazine programming featuring the Penn State Nittany Lions, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and Villanova Wildcats.

### High school sports

West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission high school football, baseball, softball, and boys' and girls' basketball championship games, as well as occasional broadcasts of regular-season WVSSAC football contests, are carried by Trio Sports Pittsburgh.

### Studio Programming

The network provides live pre- and postgame coverage of all Penguins and Pirates games it airs. Usually, these shows last between 30 minutes to an hour and are produced from the network’s studios for away games and on-location (PPG Paints Arena or PNC Park) for home games. However, the network does not provide this coverage for playoff games (other than the first round of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs) or regular season games aired nationally, making the station one of few regional sports networks in the country whose team studio coverage is limited to only the games it produces.