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KSTC.TV, Channel 45, the Twin Cities only independent television station, begins its second season as the exclusive over-the-air broadcast partner of the Minnesota Wild.

Dan Terhaar serves as the play-by-play announcer, while Mike Greenlay provides the color analysis for all games on KSTC.TV, Channel 45.

FORTY5 delivers the best in local sports action to area viewers.  Key franchise games include Big Ten basketball and football, Minnesota State High School League Championship Tournaments, National Basketball Association’s Minnesota Timberwolves, Saint Paul Saints baseball and the fast-paced action of the National Hockey League’s Minnesota Wild.

Part of the rich broadcasting heritage of Hubbard Broadcasting, one of the only family-owned television groups in the country, FORTY5 is the station to turn to for top rated network syndication including “Friends”, “King of Queens”, “Frasier”,  “According to Jim”, and “Scrubs”.

Reaching more than 1.6 million television homes, KSTC.TV, Channel 45, is also available on cable channel 12 (on most metro cable stations) and is carried on DirecTV and Dish Network satellite systems.

Tune in to Channel 45 on one of the following stations:

Comcast and Time Warner Subscribers - Channel 12
Charter Subscribers - Channel 18

FSN North—the area’s leading supplier of regional sports programming—enters its sixth consecutive year as the Minnesota Wild’s exclusive cable television partner. As part of this long-term partnership, FSN North will telecast 45 regular-season Wild games during the 2006-2007 campaign. In addition to live game coverage, FSN North airs a special half-hour show titled “Wild Live” before and after the games. The FSN North telecasts feature the broadcast team of play-by-play announcer Dan Terhaar and color analyst Mike Greenlay.

FSN North reaches more than three million homes throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and North and South Dakota, and telecasts nearly 2,600 hours of locally produced programming per year. The Emmy Award-winning regional sports network provides comprehensive coverage of the NHL’s Minnesota Wild, the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves and Milwaukee Bucks, MLB’s Minnesota Twins and Milwaukee Brewers, and the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx as well as the University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin athletic events.

Fox Sports Net (FSN), its affiliates, and other FNG-owned networks reach more than 81 million homes through 21 regional networks. FSN owned and affiliated regional sports networks serve as the TV home to 64 of the 82 MLB, NHL, and NBA teams based in the United States. FSN produces more than 4,500 live events each year, including 500 in High Definition. For the latest up-to-the-minute sports news and opinions, visit www.FoxSports.com. Type keyword “North” to view FSN North’s telecast schedule and read more information on the Wild and other local teams. 

The Wild will have four games broadcast on the VERSUS Network  throughout the season including:

November 29 vs. San Jose Sharks
December 5 vs. Chicago Blackhawks
February 6 at Dallas Stars
March 20 vs. Phoenix Coyotes 

CALL OF THE WILD 

The Minnesota Wild and Comcast will team together for the sixth consecutive season to produce “Call of the Wild”, a magazine-style show available exclusively to Twin Cities area cable subscribers.  Fans can watch “Call of the Wild” Saturday mornings on ESPN2 and throughout the week on Comcast channel 13, and channel 23 is the Comcast areas formally run by Time Warner. The program focuses on Wild players, game highlights, special events, Xcel Energy Center,and community relations programs centered on Minnesota’s favorite sport.   In addition, each show features a different Minnesota Wild guest who participates in both host and audience Q&A sessions.

Coverage of the show has also expanded to include the majority of the Metro region with the addition of communities formerly served by Time Warner Cable.  “Call of the Wild” is taped before a live audience in restaurants and other businesses throughout Saint Paul and surrounding areas. With its unique on-air presence, the “Call of the Wild” reaches nearly 600,000 homes, multiple cable zones and fourteen counties on a weekly basis.

 Minnesota Wild Country

The Regional Emmy-nominated Minnesota Wild Country is a weekly magazine show dedicated to everything Minnesota Wild. The show is designed to take fans behind the scenes of the Wild organization. The show airs on KSTC.TV Channel 45 every Saturday at 5:30 PM. The show will re-air on Sunday nights at 11:00 PM throughout the remainder of the season. 

Click here to view videos from Minnesota Wild Country on the KSTC.TV Channel 45 website.

Minnesota Wild Country was recently nominated for a Regional Emmy for Sports Programming.

The thirty-minute show includes weekly highlights, a spotlight feature and news and notes about the Wild and their primary development affiliate, the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League (AHL).  Other features of the show include highlights of the Wild in the community and the organization's grass roots campaign to preserve the interest and history of the state of hockey.

Hosted by Clay Matvick, Minnesota Wild Country includes reports from 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS sports anchors Rod Simons and Anne Hutchinson, as well as former NHL great Phil Housley. 

KSTC.TV, Channel 45, is the Twin Cities’ only independent television broadcast station and debuted in September of 2000. Owned and operated by Hubbard Broadcasting, KSTC.TV joined 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS as Minnesota's first "duopoly": two stations owned by the same broadcasting company in a designated market area.  In addition to being the only fully independent free over-the-air UHF television station, Channel 45 offers unique local and syndicated programming as well as local sports and entertainment. Channel 45 can also be found on cable channel 12 in most areas of the Twin Cities.