“We are very excited about this new working partnership with My Network TV,” said Hixon.  “Not only will there be more games broadcast this season than the last two, but WQMY’s reach across the region means more than half a million area residents will be able to view the Penguins from the comfort of their own homes.

“Additionally, the ability to promote the Penguins across three stations (WQMY, WOLF and WSWB) provides us with expanded coverage that we think all area hockey fans have been craving.”

The first televised game will take place on Saturday, October 6, when the Penguins play host to the Syracuse Crunch at 7:05pm, and the schedule will wrap up with the Pens’ final game of the regular season on April 12 against the Norfolk Admirals.  The full schedule of live broadcasts follows.

In addition to the 13 regular season broadcasts, the Penguins and WQMY will produce a half hour season preview show, tentatively scheduled to run beginning on October 2.  WQMY will also carry the 2008 AHL All-Star Skills Competition and AHL All-Star Game live from Binghamton, NY on January 27 and 28.

"We're thrilled by this announcement," said Michael Yanuzzi, president of New Age Media, the Wilkes-Barre company that recently purchased WQMY as part of a multi-station purchase this past April. "Our goal as a company is to localize our stations with sports, news and other community oriented projects. This announcement is a major step towards those goals.”

“This joint venture between the Penguins and My Network TV WQMY-TV is the perfect collaboration of one of this area’s most popular sports franchises and the station which carries more sports than any other broadcaster in the market,” said Jon Cadman, general manager of WQMY-TV.  “WQMY is carried on every major cable system in Northeast PA except Comcast.  It is our hope that Comcast will soon agree to carry our free broadcast signal to their cable subscribers.”

My Network TV WQMY is the My Network TV affiliate in Northeast & Central PA market, which serves over 500,000 households in the Nations 53rd largest television market. Along with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and My Net programming, My Network TV WQMY broadcasts some of the top syndicated shows, Big Ten/Big East Basketball and Football along with Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees baseball, Philadelphia Flyers hockey and Philadelphia 76ers basketball games.

Full season ticket packages, partial ticket plans, and the special ‘Bonvie Brigade’ ticket packages are on sale now, and available by calling 570-208-7367.

FULL 2007-2008 PENGUINS/My Network TV BROADCAST SCHEDULE 
DATE                                        OPPONENT                              TIME

Saturday, October 6                   Syracuse Crunch                       7:05pm
Saturday, October 13                 Philadelphia Phantoms               7:05pm
Saturday, October 27                 Binghamton Senators                 7:05pm
Saturday, November 3                Norfolk Admirals                        7:05pm
Saturday, December 22              Albany River Rats                      7:05pm
Saturday, December 29              Binghamton Senators                 7:05pm
Saturday, January 12                 Philadelphia Phantoms               7:05pm
Sunday, January 27                   AHL ALL-STAR SKILLS COMP   TBA
Monday, January 28                   AHL ALL-STAR GAME               TBA
Saturday, February 2                  Norfolk Admirals                        3:05pm*
Saturday, February 9                  Hershey Bears                           7:05pm
Saturday, March 1                     Philadelphia Phantoms               7:05pm
Saturday, March 22                    Providence Bruins                      7:05pm
Saturday, April 5                        Philadelphia Phantoms               7:05pm
Saturday, April 12                      Norfolk Admirals                        7:05pm
* Game scheduled to be carried on WOLF Fox 56

WHERE YOU CAN WATCH WQMY My Network TV
Cable Company                                               Channel

Service Electric Cable Wilkes-Barre                       4
Service Electric Cable Hazelton                              8
Service Electric Cable Shamokin                         14
Service Electric Cable Sunbury                             14
Service Electric Co. Delano and Mahanoy          98
Blue Ridge Cable Stroudsburg                             16
Blue Ridge Cable Lehighton                                 16
Blue Ridge Cable Tunkhannock                             8
Beaver Valley Cable                                                   9
CATV Danville                                                           11
Commuter East                                                        11
Herr Cable                                                                    8         
Adams Cable                                                             18
Metrocast                                                                      8
Shen-Heights TV                                                       11

WQMY is also available over the air on channel 53 and on digital channel 56.3. All cable companies in Northeast and Central Pennsylvania can pick up WQMY for FREE.  If your cable company is not listed above, call them and ask them to add My Network TV WQMY to their line-up.