Rams preseason games are coming to San Diego
Alden Gonzalez ESPN Staff Writer
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The
Los Angeles Rams may have more influence in San Diego now than the
Los Angeles Chargers do.
Fox 5, a local affiliate in San Diego, announced last week that it will air Los Angeles Rams preseason games in the city over the next two years. In 2017, Fox 5 (KSWB-TV) will broadcast three of the Rams' four preseason games -- all of them, oddly enough, except their Aug. 26 home game against the Chargers, which will be broadcast nationally on CBS.
Fox 5, owned by Tribune Broadcasting, will air live coverage of the Rams' home game against the Cowboys (Aug. 12 at 6 p.m. PT), road game against the Raiders (some time between Aug. 17 and 19) and road game against the Packers (Aug. 31 at 4 p.m. PT).
The Chargers, who angered the city by recently uprooting to L.A., will spend the next two years playing out of the 30,000-seat StubHub Center, while the Rams remain at the 90,000-seat Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which resides only 12 miles away. In 2019, the two teams will share the $2.6 billion stadium in Inglewood that is being funded by Rams owner Stan Kroenke.
CBS 2 broadcasts the Rams' preseason games in L.A. Earlier this week, the Chargers announced multi-year television and radio agreements making KABC-TV, iHeartMedia Los Angeles, KAZA-TV Azteca America 54 and KFWB 980 AM the team's official flagship English and Spanish language broadcast partners. There has been no word on whether San Diego's CBS affiliate will once again broadcast Chargers preseason games, as it has in the past.
In a statement released by Fox 5, Rams COO Kevin Demoff said: "As we look forward to our second season back home in Southern California, we are excited to partner with Fox 5 San Diego to bring Rams football to their viewers and our fans across the region."