Red Wings games to be live streamed on Fox Sports GO

By @MichaelCaples –

If you have a TV service that provides you with Fox Sports Detroit, you may just be able to watch Red Wings games on your phone or tablet this season.

Announced today, Fox Sports Regional Networks – aka FSD in Hockeytown – will begin live streaming local NHL telecasts beginning with the upcoming 2016-17 campaign through the FOX Sports GO app.

From a Fox Sports release:

As part of a new multi-year agreement, NHL games televised on FOX Sports Regional Networks will be available for live streaming on FOX Sports GO to customers of participating pay-TV providers.

The agreement also allows distributors, including new streaming services, to deliver NHL games via their digital platforms as part of their carriage of the Fox RSNs.

“We are pleased that hockey fans that subscribe to FOX Sports Regional Networks will now have more ways to follow their favorite NHL teams,” said David M. Proper, NHL Executive Vice President of Media Distribution and Strategy / Business Affairs. “We believe increasing accessibility to NHL games benefits not only fans, but the league and its partners.”

“We see in-market streaming as a valuable extension of the customers’ pay-TV subscription,” said Jeff Krolik, President, FOX Sports Regional Networks.  “We’re happy to partner with the NHL to bring in-market streaming to hockey fans, and we look forward to collaborating with the league on this effort.”

The FOX Sports GO app is available for iOS, Android, Android TV, Fire tablets and Fire phones, select Windows devices and online at FOXSportsGO.com.

Fox Sports Regional Networks have local media rights partnerships with the Wings, St. Louis Blues, Anaheim Ducks, Arizona Coyotes, Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus Blue Jackets, Dallas Stars, Florida Panthers, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota Wild, Nashville Predators and Tampa Bay Lightning.