UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; - The Big Ten Network will air five consecutive days of the Nittany Lions' most memorable victories and events from the past year and campus programming during Penn State Week, July 26-30.
The Nittany Lion basketball, Lady Lion basketball, football, men's gymnastics, women's soccer, men's and women's track and field/cross country and women's volleyball teams will be among the squads featured during Penn State Week. The network also will air Penn State institutional programming, including President Graham Spanier's program, "Expert Opinion," episodes of "We Are: The Millenials" and the highly-acclaimed documentary, "Making The Blue Band."
The Big Ten Network televised more than 500 athletic events in 2009-10, including more than 100 events featuring Penn State. The network is available to approximately 75 million homes through agreements with more than 300 cable, satellite and telco providers in all 50 states and Canada. The network is available on cable in 46 states and 19 of the top 20 U.S. markets.
The Big Ten Network, though, is not carried by Adams, Blue Ridge and MetroCast cable in Pennsylvania. The network also is not available to Armstrong Cable customers in western Pennsylvania and suburban Youngstown, Ohio. A combined total of more than 35,000 Penn State alumni live in communities served by the four cable providers, in addition to thousands more fans and current Penn State students.
The Nittany Lions' football season opener with Youngstown State (Sept. 4) will air exclusively on the network and will be the first of the more than 100 Penn State events that will air on the Big Ten Network in 2010-11. Additional football games will air exclusively on the network this fall, in addition to the women's volleyball, soccer and field hockey events announced earlier this month.
In addition to numerous games, Penn State conference championships in men's gymnastics, women's soccer and women's cross country/track and field will be featured during Penn State Week. Among the highlights of Penn State Week on Big Ten Network:
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