Cox Sports Television (CST) announced today that veteran announcer Tim Brando has been named as the play-by-play voice for CST’s preseason New Orleans Saints broadcasts. Joining Brando in the booth will be analyst Solomon Wilcots, while CST reporter Mike Nabors will patrol the sidelines.
Marking his fourth consecutive year calling Saints preseason games, Brando joined the CBS Television Network in 1995 calling NCAA Basketball Tournament games. The Shreveport native also hosts College Football Today for the network. Wilcots, a former NFL defensive back, is in his second season on The Playbook on the NFL Network and also serves as a correspondent for the CBS coverage of the NFL. Nabors, who anchors coverage of Saints training camp for CST, will return as sideline reporter for the second consecutive preseason.
Saints fans can tune to CST year round for coverage of their favorite NFL team. Saints Tonight! is a live thirty minute highlight show each Saints game day at 10:30 p.m. (central). “Outside the Huddle”, the Official Saints Magazine Show, airs weekly on CST during the regular season and monthly during the off-season. The morning following each regular season contest, CST offers live coverage of the Sean Payton press conference and Saintsations fans can watch the annual 30-minute swimsuit calendar show, Home Sweet Home: The Making of the 2008 Saintsations Swimsuit Calendar. For airtime of these shows and other CST programming visit our website, coxsportstv.com.
CST will televise the final three games of the preseason beginning with the August 18 contest on the road against the Cincinnati Bengals at 6:30pm. Preseason coverage on CST will continue with the August 23rd game at Kansas City at 7:30pm and will conclude in the Superdome versus the Miami Dolphins on August 30th at 7:00pm. All games will be preceded by Saints Tonight! and will be broadcast in HD where available.
Along with the games being available throughout the CST Network, the regional network has added other markets to their list of carriers of all three games. In New Orleans, the games will be simulcast on WNOL-TV. Others taking the channel via analog/digital are Comcast (Louisiana – Shreveport/Monroe, Mississippi - Rankin/Jackson/Meridian/Laurel/Hattiesburg/, Alabama – Mobile), Cable One (Mississippi – Biloxi/Gulfport/Longview/Pascagoula).
The following markets will have the games broadcast in spectacular high definition:
New Orleans: Cox HD Channel 737
Baton Rouge: Cox HD Channel 780; Eatel HD Channel 737
Lafayette: Cox HD Channel 780
Morgan City, LA: Allen’s TV Cable HD Channel 733
Reserve, LA: Reserve Telecommunications HD Channel 312
Monroe, LA: Comcast HD Channel 400
Jackson, MS: Comcast HD Channel 400
Pensacola, FL: Cox HD Channel 700
COX SPORTS TELEVISION will present Outside The Huddle every week on Thursdays at 6 pm (with several re-showings during the week). Hosted by Tressy Leindecker, the show focuses on the community efforts of Saints' players and personnel, as well as lifestyle features and interviews.
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