Big Ten Network Launches New Programs For Third Season

September 5, 2009

Big Ten Network started its coverage of the football season with the broadcast of Indiana hosts Eastern Kentucky on Thursday. Iowa, Michigan State, Northwestern, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin Big Ten teams will start this season today and Big Ten cover these games.

Big Ten Network football and men’s basketball broadcast will be available outside USA and Canada on www.BigTenTicket.com.

Big Ten Network has announced six new programs named “Football Four-Pack,” to be broadcast at 10 PM ET Tuesday through Friday. Following are the new programs added:

Breakdown – hosted by Dave Revsine, Howard Griffith and Chris Martin. Breakdown show will use coaches’ film to review what happened during last week’s games and more.

Sites and Sounds – Broadcast on Wednesdays with Rick Pizzo and Troy Vincent, former Wisconsin defensive back and one of the network’s new analysts.

Behind The Schemes – Broadcast on Thursday’s hosted by Revsine along with former Big Ten head coaches Gerry DiNardo and Glen Mason to discuss the X’s and O’s of the coming week’s games.

Big Ten Football and Beyond – Revsine will host Big Ten Football and Beyond along with DiNardo, Griffith, Chicago Tribune college football reporter Teddy Greenstein and Sports Illustrated’s Cory McCartney to get a look at the national games that might affect the Big Ten.

The Big Ten’s Best will pay tribute to Big Ten’s outstanding history and legacy with every episode will rank the conference’s top 10 performers or performances in a particular category and include interviews with players, coaches and media. The series premieres at 8 PM ET on Friday, Sept. 4 with Best Dynamic Football Duos of the 80’s and 90’s. New episodes will air at 8 PM ET each Friday.

Big Ten Network primetime football broadcast will include a special performance by country music superstars and Ohio natives Rascal Flatts interlaced with a montage of Big Ten highlights. The band’s performance will include special lyrics of their single Me and My Gang, tailored to Big Ten football. Their performance was recorded in front of a live audience at a recent concert in Pittsburgh, Pa.

The Big Ten Network launched on Aug. 30, 2007 reaches more than 73 million homes across North America through satellite providers such as DirecTV, DISH Network and Shaw Direct, Telco companies such as Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-Verse, and on cable in 19 of the nation’s top 20 media markets.

The Big Ten Network has carriage agreements with Cablevision, Charter Communications, Comcast Cable, Cox Communications, Insight Communications, Mediacom, Time Warner Cable, RCN, WOW!, Shaw and Shaw Direct and more than 250 additional cable operators across North America.

The Big Ten Network available in following markets on following different operators.

Big Ten Network on Different Service Provider in Various Markets
Market Service Provider
Albuquerque & Santa Fe NM – Comcast
Atlanta Comcast, AT&T U-Verse
Austin TX – AT&T U-Verse
Bakersfield CA – Time Warner
Baltimore Comcast, Verizon FiOS
Birmingham & Tuscaloosa AL – Comcast
Boston Comcast, Verizon FiOS
Charlotte NC – Time Warner
Chattanooga Comcast
Chicago IL – Comcast, Mediacom, RCN, WOW, AT&T U-Verse
Cleveland OH – AT&T U-Verse, Buckeye, Cox, Massillion Cable TV, Time Warner, WOW
Colorado Springs CO – Comcast
The Dakotas (Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Fargo/Morehead, Bismarck Midcontinent
Dallas TX – Time Warner, Verizon FiOS
Denver Comcast
Detroit MI – AT&T U-Verse, Comcast, Time Warner, WOW, Wyandotte, D&P Cable, Broadstripe
Fort Myers/Naples FL – Comcast
Fresno CA – AT&T U-Verse, Comcast
Greensboro NC – Time Warner
Hartford & New Haven CT – AT&T U-Verse, Comcast
Hawaii Time Warner
Houston TX – Comcast, AT&T U-Verse
Indianapolis IN – Comcast, Time Warner
Jacksonville FL – Comcast
Kansas City AT&T U-Verse, Comcast, Sure West Communications
Knoxville Comcast
Lexington KY – Insight
Los Angeles CA – AT&T U-Verse, Verizon FiOS
Louisville KY – Insight
Memphis Comcast
Miami-Fort Lauderdale Comcast , AT&T U-Verse
Minneapolis MN – Comcast, Charter, Mediacom, Midcontinent, US Cable
Montgomery County MD – Comcast
Nashville Comcast
New Castle DE – Comcast
New Jersey (statewide) Comcast, Service Electric
New York City Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner
Oakland CA – Comcast, AT&T U-Verse
Oklahoma City AT&T U-Verse
Orlando AT&T U-Verse, Time Warner, Comcast
Palm Desert CA – Time Warner
Philadelphia PA – Comcast, RCN, Service Electric Cable TV, Verizon FiOS
Phoenix Orbitel Communications, Western Broadband, Cox
Pittsburgh PA – Comcast, Verizon FiOS
Portland OR – Comcast, Verizon FiOS
Providence RI – Comcast, Verizon FiOS
Raleigh NC – Time Warner
Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto CA – Comcast, AT&T U-Verse, Surewest
Salt Lake City Comcast, All West Utah, Inc.
San Antonio TX – AT&T U-Verse
San Diego CA – AT&T U-Verse
San Francisco-San Jose CA – Comcast, AT&T U-Verse
Seattle-Tacoma Comcast, Verizon FiOS
South Carolina (statewide) Time Warner
St. Louis MO – AT&T U-Verse, NewWave
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Sarasota FL – Time Warner, Comcast, Verizon FiOS
Topeka KS – Cox
Tucson AZ- Comcast, Western Broadband, Cox
Virginia Beach VA – Verizon FiOS
Washington D.C. – Comcast , Verizon FiOS
West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce FL – AT&T U-Verse, Comcast
Wichita KS – AT&T U-Verse, Cox

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