Clippers launch ClipperVision as 77-game home after FanDuel Sports Network exit

LOS ANGELES — Oct. 14, 2026 — The LA Clippers have settled where their games will live this season, and the answer is a team-run channel. ClipperVision takes over from FanDuel Sports Network SoCal and will carry 77 Clippers games in 2026-27, with 10 of them simulcast over the air on KTLA 5. Subscriptions opened Wednesday, the same day the team announced the plan.

The key business detail is how the channel reaches homes. Instead of selling to one regional sports network, the Clippers built what they call a direct-to-distributor partnership. ClipperVision will sit on the same providers fans across Southern California, Hawaii and parts of Nevada already used: Spectrum on cable, DIRECTV on satellite and streaming, and the streaming service Fubo. It will also stream through the LA Clippers + Intuit Dome app, NBA.com and the NBA App, including on connected TVs and game consoles. The team says fans keep the same providers and the same programming packages as past seasons.

Why the Clippers went this way

The regional sports network model that carried most NBA teams for two decades has been falling apart. Main Street Sports Group, the operator behind the FanDuel Sports Network channels, is now defunct, and close to half the league had aired local games on those channels. A Sports Business Journal report on Oct. 13 described the Clippers arrangement as a one-year direct-to-distributor deal. A one-year term gives the team flexibility while the league works on a bigger change.

That change is a national, aggregated home for local NBA games planned for 2027-28. The same report said Clippers broadcasts are expected to be produced by the NBA’s in-house broadcast group, a preview of how a league-run hub could work. For now, Steve Ballmer’s team holds the carriage relationships itself instead of handing them to a regional network.

Who sells the ads

Advertising moved too. Playfly Sports, which had sold only the Clippers’ national inventory, will also handle local ad sales across ClipperVision broadcasts this season. Main Street had handled the team’s local sales last year. It is Playfly’s first full local-and-national NBA package, following similar hybrid deals in baseball with the Cubs, Guardians, Rockies and Twins. That puts the company in position for a bigger role if the league’s 2027-28 hub needs a single ad-sales partner.

Same voices, one new face

On air, little changes. Brian Sieman starts his 20th season on play-by-play. Jim Jackson, a 14-year NBA veteran, returns for a sixth season as lead analyst, and Mike Fratello and former Clipper Brent Barry are back as game analysts. The new addition is ESPN’s Ohm Youngmisuk, a veteran NBA reporter who covered Los Angeles sports for more than 20 years before joining the network in 2006. He will work the sideline, host pregame and postgame shows and write features for the team’s website.

ClipperVision’s schedule includes all four Emirates NBA Cup group games: Oct. 30 at Minnesota, Nov. 13 against Oklahoma City, Nov. 25 at Memphis and Nov. 27 against New Orleans. Two more December games will be added based on Cup results. The regular season starts at Intuit Dome on Oct. 21 against Sacramento.

How many fans actually sign up will be the number to watch. The Clippers have a large market and a new arena, but they still share Los Angeles with the Lakers. If a team-owned channel keeps the same carriage and sells its own ads well for one season, it becomes a working test case for the league’s push to bring local games under one national roof.