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3/17 game vs Braves, 1:00pm will be on FS Florida statewide. Rich Waltz will be paired with FS South/Braves' Joe Simpson in TV booth and Chip Caray from FS South/Braves will report from Braves dugout and Craig Minervini from Marlins.

Hey, for those who follow @SunSportsFOXFL on Twitter, just launched new Twitter feed specific for Marlins - @FSMarlins - so you'll need to follow that to get FS Florida's tweets from Craig, et al.

Yes, Comcast throughout South Florida is electing to offer all 150 Marlins games this season on FSN Florida and Sun Sports.

Here's the reason some of you may not be seeing all 150 regionally televised Marlins games on FSN Florida and Sun Sports this season in your particular area. Your particular cable company may not be electing to enter into an agreement to offer a bonus package of 55 Marlins games (15 airing on FSN Florida and the 40 airing on FSN's sister network Sun Sports) that FSN Florida, the Marlins' exclusive regional TV rightsholder, is making available to its cable and satellite system affiliates this season. Those 55 games will continue to be listed in guides because other area cable and satellite providers, such as DirecTV and DISH, have chosen to offer those games to their customers in your area. On those 55 nights, Sun Sports and FSN Florida provide other programming to your cable system since, to date, they are not electing to offer those Marlins game telecasts to their customers in your area. You will, however, see the other 95 of the 150 Marlins game telecasts that FSN Florida is distributing this season and those are all scheduled on FSN Florida. Many FSN Florida cable and satellite system affiliates are electing to offer the additional 55 games, including Comcast throughout South Florida as mentioned earlier in this thread and DirecTV and DISH Network statewide. If you would like your provider to offer these additional 55 games, you should contact your provider and let them know you would like to see all 150 Marlins games telecasts that are available to them, including that added 55-game package. They do keep records of requests from customers. Also, to the person who said they did not see Miami HEAT games on Sun Sports during the second half of last season via DirecTV in South Florida, you should definitely contact DirecTV about that because provided you are in the NBA-approved Miami HEAT home TV territory in South Florida, there is no reason you should not see all 70 HEAT games on Sun Sports. You should not have to sign up for any extra package of any kind to see those games on Sun Sports if you're in South Florida. Also, regarding HD, there is a link on www.sunsportstv.com and www.fsnflorida.com toward the bottom of the page that says "Check HD Listings." There you can find the list of all area cable and satellite companies who are electing to offer Sun Sports HD and FSN Florida HD games for the various teams and the HD channels those cable and satellite companies are assigning to those games in your area. Keep in mind, DirecTV chooses to offer most of these local FSN Florida and Sun Sports HD games to their HD customers in Miami, Tampa and Orlando markets only on Ch. 96 or 97. They offer a few to their HD customers statewide on Ch. 94 or 95.