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Comcast Cable deal puts every Kings game on TV in Sacramento, Calif.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2004

The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 9--For the first time in franchise history, every Kings preseason and regular-season game will be televised to Sacramento-area viewers under a new deal reached between the Kings and Comcast Cable.

The agreement calls for Comcast to launch a 24-hour regional sports network that features the Kings as the centerpiece, augmented by the Monarchs and other as-yet-determined programming.

Financial terms were not disclosed Wednesday, but it's a 10-year deal -- a detail that may put increasingly anxious Kings fans at ease over the team's future in Sacramento, where talks on a new arena have crumbled.

It's unclear whether the contract includes an escape clause that would...

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