XM Satellite Radio will air all five Bowl Championship Series (BCS) football games in January 2008.
The Allstate BCS National Championship, FedEx Orange Bowl, Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, and AllState Sugar Bowl are all broadcast by XM thanks to a multi-year agreement with FOX Sports. These will air on XM Sports Nation. And XM will air the Rose Bowl as part of their partnership with ESPN, so it will air on... wait for it... ESPN Radio.
According to Eric (E-Lo) Logan, EVP of programming at XM, over 1.3 million listeners are tuning in to XM every Saturday to hear the games. That's a pretty big turn out.
"XM is now the satellite radio home for all five BCS games, which bolsters our standing as the ultimate destination for college sports fans." added Logan.
College Football Hall of Famer Barry Switzer noted, "I can listen to all the BCS games on my radio wherever I am, anywhere across the country. That's what makes college football on XM so powerful. You can listen to hundreds of games from all over the place, wherever you are."
Check out see the full BCS games schedule after the jump...
Rose Bowl presented by Citi
January 1, 2008, at 4:30PM ET/1:30PM PT
USC vs. Illinois
ESPN Radio (ch 140)
Allstate Sugar Bowl
January 1, 2008, at 8:30PM ET/5:30PM PT
Georgia vs. Hawaii
XM Sports Nation (ch 144)
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
January 2, 2008, at 8:00PM ET/5:00PM PT
Oklahoma vs. West Virginia
XM Sports Nation (ch 144)
FedEx Orange Bowl
January 3, 2008, at 8:00PM ET/5:00PM PT
Virginia Tech vs. Kansas
XM Sports Nation (ch 144)
Allstate BCS National Championship Game
January 7, 2008, at 8:00PM ET/5:00PM PT
Ohio State vs. LSU
XM Sports Nation (ch 144)
Pack your bags E-Lo, your ass is done. Mel needs your office for his new bathroom.
yay e-lo
Go Buck's
mel quickly added, "I can listen to all the field hockey games on my radio wherever I am, anywhere across the country."
I'm guessing the Anonymous Coward who posted the first message is a low-level Sirius manager sitting on two -- count 'em two -- thousand shares of SIRI. Geaux XM! Geaux Tigers!
It was nice of Switzer to throw in a plug. God f'ing forbid Oprah do anything like that.
Nice, E-Lo. NCAA Bowl games are the next best thing to a box of Gamecocks! Go University of Southern Carolina!
You see, no matter what is posted, Anonymous Coward chimes in with some hack anti-XM comment... Like he is relevant to Sirius. Like he works for them. If he died today, Sirius would not care (They count his subscribtion as 2.5 people anyway) yet he acts as if he is Mel and Howard's best friend.
Anonymous Coward + mom's basement = his location.
Fanboys are annoying, Anonymous Coward... But I guess you feel better believing you are a part of something... anything. Now if only that devotion to Sirius and Howard could get a girl to... well even notice you.
:-)
All right, that does it. E-Lo's bullshit has gone too far! Yeah, Eric, we know every channel has 1.3m listeners. I've had all I can stand! meow
"According to Eric (E-Lo) Logan, EVP of programming at XM, over 1.3 million listeners are tuning in to XM every Saturday to hear the games. That's a pretty big turn out. "
this is the same spin monger that said 0.0 had more listeners than howard right?isn't lying repeatedly grounds for termination? wait forget it,mel will take care of that