Fox Sports Net Rocky Mountain and Utah Jazz Ink Long-term Deal for Telecast Rights and Marketing Sponsorship
New Agreement First Step in Plans to Rebrand Network in Utah

Salt Lake City - The Utah Jazz and Fox Sports Net Rocky Mountain signed a new long-term telecast agreement beginning with the 2005-06 NBA season, it was announced today by Randy Rigby, Utah Jazz Chief Marketing Officer and Tim Griggs, Vice President and General Manager, FSN Rocky Mountain. The new contract includes a minimum of 40 regular season games and pregame shows to be telecast annually on FSN Rocky Mountain

As part of FSN's and the Utah Jazz initiative to bring even more local programming to sports fans in the region, FSN Rocky Mountain plans to rebrand its network FSN Utah for viewers in the state of Utah. The timeline and details of the effort will be announced at a later date

"We are extremely pleased to have FSN Rocky Mountain become the largest broadcasting partner in Utah Jazz history," said Rigby. "This partnership involves not just telecasting additional games but an exciting new venture in local sports programming under the brand of FSN Utah. This endeavor will increase our viewer base, expand local sports programming and offer FSN Rocky Mountain an expanded presence in this dynamic media market."

"FSN Rocky Mountain is also pleased to expand its long running partnership with the Utah Jazz and looks forward to bringing fans extensive coverage of the team well into the future," says Griggs. "We're also looking forward to working with Larry H. Miller Sports Entertainment on plans to develop and launch FSN Utah, a network which will enhance our ability to provide even more quality local programming for sports fans throughout the state."

FSN Rocky Mountain serves more than 2.8 million cable and satellite subscribers in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, southern Idaho, western Nebraska, western Kansas and northeastern Nevada. FSN Rocky Mountain, which delivers Utah Jazz games to viewers in Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Wyoming, has held Utah Jazz telecast rights since the 1989-90 season. FSN Rocky Mountain also holds multiyear rights to Real Salt Lake, Colorado Rockies, Denver Broncos, University of Denver, University of Colorado, Colorado State, in addition to Big 12 football and women's basketball, Pac-10 football and basketball and ACC basketball.