The Minnesota Timberwolves are about to sound very different on TV.
With media day set for Monday, training camp opening Tuesday and the first preseason game coming Oct. 5 in Milwaukee, the Wolves also rolled out the voices fans will hear on their new broadcast home. On Friday, the team announced its 2026-27 TV roster, and the headliners are Kevin Calabro and Jon “Boog” Sciambi, two veteran play-by-play announcers with national pull. Jim Petersen is back as the color analyst.
The Wolves’ move to DAZN, announced in July, made the streaming platform the exclusive local home for Minnesota basketball after years on Fox Sports North, Bally Sports North and, most recently, FanDuel Sports Network North. Fans looking to watch the team’s 67 local broadcasts will need a subscription that runs from $19.99 a month to $139.99 for the season.
The broadcast setup is not fully sorted out yet, but Howard Sinker of The Daily Agenda, who first reported the hires on Thursday, said Calabro and Sciambi are expected to handle most of the schedule.
Calabro brings a long NBA track record. He spent 21 seasons as the voice of the Seattle SuperSonics beginning in 1987, then worked nine seasons calling Trail Blazers games in Portland.
He also served as the lead radio play-by-play announcer for the NBA Finals in 2014, 2015 and 2016. According to The Daily Agenda, Calabro left this summer after turning down a low contract offer from the Blazers’ new ownership.
Sciambi is better known to many fans as a baseball broadcaster, and that’s fair - he’s the current TV voice of the Chicago Cubs on Marquee Sports Network and one of ESPN’s top MLB voices. But he’s got plenty of basketball on his résumé too, including college basketball for ESPN since 2005 and Big 12 games for more than a decade.
Michael Grady is still in the mix as well. He took over as the Wolves’ TV voice in 2022 and enters his fifth year with the broadcast, though his national work with NBC and Amazon has forced him to scale back locally.
Alan Horton also remains part of the picture. He’s back for his 20th season with the franchise as the full-time radio voice, after calling more than 1,500 Wolves games, including the 2024 and 2025 runs to the Western Conference Finals. He’ll also handle a select number of TV games again.
Petersen’s role stays intact, too. The St. Louis Park native and former Gopher played 491 NBA games over eight seasons with the Rockets, Kings and Warriors, and this will be his 29th season on Wolves broadcasts.
The other notable addition is Meghan McPeak, who joins as sideline reporter and studio show host for road games. McPeak spent nearly eight years with the Washington Wizards, Mystics and Capital City Go-Go, and in 2015 became the first female play-by-play broadcaster in the G League as the voice of Raptors 905.
For home games, Marney Gellner returns to host “Wolves Live,” with analysis from Lynx assistant coach Rebekkah Brunson and former Minnesota men’s basketball captain Parker Fox.
The team still has one more broadcast wrinkle to reveal: 15 of the 67 local games will also air on an over-the-air provider, but the channel and the games have not been announced yet.
Fans will get their first look at the new group soon enough. DAZN is producing three preseason telecasts locally - Oct. 5 at Milwaukee, Oct. 14 against Detroit and Oct. 16 at Chicago - before the regular season opens Oct. 21 in Miami.
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