XM Satellite Radio is 'kicking off' their biggest package of college football programming ever, with games for the six power conferences - ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10, and SEC - starting August 30.
XM is dedicating 15 radio channels to live play-by-play coverage of college football games for listeners across the continental United States. A channel guide is available online at xmradio.com/collegesports
"If you're a Texas fan, you can tune into your favorite team on XM, whether you're in Austin or you're two thousand miles away in Seattle." said Eric Logan, XM's executive vice president of programming. "You can be a Wisconsin fan vacationing in Florida, a Virginia Tech alum who lives in Phoenix, or a Cal fan headed to New England, and you can hear your teams on XM. This year, we've got the most college football games, the most teams, and the most conferences we've ever had."
On top of the games, the XM's sports talk radio channel XM Sports Nation (ch 144) will broadcast gameday reports each week from the host city of a major game.
XMSN will be in Starkville, Miss., on August 29th and 30th for the first SEC game of 2007 as LSU takes on Mississippi State. Gameday news and analysis, on-site interviews, and call-in shows from the MSU campus will be broadcast by the XMSN team. Fans can hear the Mississippi State game feed on SEC channel 199 and the LSU feed on SEC channel 200 on August 30th, starting with the pre-game shows at 6pm ET.
XM Sports Nation has also bumped up their on-air team of football analysts, led by former coach of the Oklahoma Sooners and Dallas Cowboys, Barry Switzer. Switzer now appears live on the show "XM Sports Nation This Morning" on Mondays and Fridays to talk football with host T.J. Rives.
Go Big Orange! S-E-C!
E-Lo? Wow I thought he was dead.
Not dead, as best I can tell. But the Texas and LSU fans still holding Sirius radios? Pretty dead.