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Sacramento Kings games to be broadcast on Comcast....

For the first time in franchise history, every Kings preseason and regular-season game will be televised to Sacramento-area viewers under a new deal reached between the Kings and Comcast Cable.

The agreement calls for Comcast to launch a 24-hour regional sports network that features the Kings as the centerpiece, augmented by the Monarchs and other as-yet-determined programming.

which is all well and good, perhaps I'll be able to watch more Sacramento games this year, but this quote is great:

Chris Woods, a Sacramento legislative consultant and DirecTV subscriber, said he's confident the satellite company will reach a deal to carry the new Comcast channel.

"I can't imagine the Maloofs shutting out a portion of their audience," he said.

If no deal occurred, though, Woods said he wouldn't switch to his old cable carrier. "We're happy with DirecTV - and to be honest, I don't know if (new Kings center) Greg Ostertag is enough reason to go back to Comcast."

ha! Of course, Vlade now has some spinal injury and wouldn't have played any better than Ostertag.