NHL’s Coyotes extend Fox Sports Arizona partnership

NHL ice hockey franchise the Phoenix Coyotes has agreed a multi-year extension to its regional rights deal with cable and satellite broadcaster Fox Sports Arizona.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the Coyotes said Fox Sports Arizona will remain the team’s exclusive local television partner “well into the next decade”.

Under the new agreement, Fox Sports Arizona and Fox Sports Arizona Plus will televise 70 Coyotes regular season games during the 2013-14 season, reaching over 2.5 million cable and satellite households throughout Arizona and New Mexico.

Fox Sports Arizona has been the Coyotes television partner since the team’s inaugural season in 1996.