Las Vegas Aviators Sign Broadcast Deal With FOX5, SSSEN for 2026 Season

The Las Vegas Aviators secured a broadcast partnership with KVVU FOX5 and the Silver State Sports & Entertainment Network to televise select games during the 2026 Pacific Coast League season, bringing Triple-A baseball to over-the-air and cable audiences across Southern Nevada and into Reno.

SSSEN, which airs on channel 5.2 over the air and on Cox cable channel 125, has long billed itself as the home of Aviators baseball. The network and FOX5 together claim over 450 live sporting events annually as the Official Broadcast Partner for a roster of Las Vegas-area teams that includes the Raiders, UNLV Athletics, the NBA G League, Vegas Knight Hawks, Las Vegas Desert Dogs, Vegas Thrill, Las Vegas Lights, and the Tahoe Knight Monsters. Adding the Aviators' 2026 regular-season slate to that lineup extends a relationship between the two broadcasters and Las Vegas professional baseball that has been building for at least two seasons.

The partnership has roots in the 2025 Spring Training. A year ago, SSSEN and FOX5 jointly covered a two-game exhibition series at Las Vegas Ballpark pitting the Arizona Diamondbacks against the Athletics, with SSSEN handling the Saturday, March 8 telecast at 1:05 p.m. and FOX5 carrying the Sunday, March 9 game at the same start time. That arrangement previewed what became a fuller 2025 season commitment: FOX5 simulcast 15 Athletics games produced by NBC Sports California, all of which also ran on SSSEN. The stations paired that game coverage with a weekly show hosted by Kevin Bolinger and Mike Davis that featured Athletics news, analysis, interviews, and features.

The 2026 deal shifts the primary focus from the parent-club A's broadcasts to the Aviators themselves. The Aviators, now entering their 44th season of professional baseball in Nevada, play at Las Vegas Ballpark, which seats 8,196 fans. The franchise calls itself Nevada's longest enduring professional sports franchise, a distinction it has held across 43 prior calendar seasons in the Pacific Coast League.

The specific number of Aviators games included in the 2026 broadcast package, production details, announcer assignments, and the exact channel lineup for the Reno distribution footprint had not been disclosed as of the announcement. Those details, along with any streaming platform specifics, remain the next piece of the schedule puzzle for fans planning how to follow the club through the 2026 PCL season.