Release from
UK Athletics:
The UK-Austin Peay men's basketball game on Saturday at 4 p.m. will be broadcast live regionally on Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast.
CSS is distributed in approximately 10 million homes and is carried by ESPN Full Court and ESPN360.com. For those fans that don't have access to CSS, several affiliates have made the game available to its paying cable customers.
Insight Communications will be providing Saturday's game to all of its customers in Louisville, Lexington, Northern Kentucky, Bowling Green and the Evansville/Henderson area. Jason Keller, director of public affairs for Insight, said the game will be available to all Insight customers in those regions regardless of what programming package they have purchased.
Lexington - channel 17
Louisville - channel 2
Northern Kentucky (Cincinnati area) - channel 6
Bowling Green - channel 5
Evansville/Henderson - channel 2
The broadcast will also be available in select cities outside of Kentucky. The following cable companies have been cleared to show the game on select affiliate channels:
Atlanta - CSS
Tampa - Bright House
Charlotte, N.C. - TW Carolinas
Cincinnati - Cincinnati Bell
New Orleans - COX-NO
Myrtle Beach, S.C. - Conway, Horry, WECHO, Ritter Comm and Frankfurt PB
As a part of the new 15-year ESPN/SEC television agreement, CSS has the rights to a minimum of 20 games per season (eight conference games). This year CSS has been granted 23 television broadcasts.
The Austin Peay game is UK's only televised game on CSS this season.
Direct TV and Dish customers must purchase or have access to the ESPN Full Court package to view the game.
The game is listed on channel 643 on Direct Tv and 455 and 461 on Dish
[***according to some fine folks in the comments, the game will be available for free on channel 447], although it's unclear whether anything has happened between this Tuesday press release and now to change the necessity for a special package to watch it. If anyone has anything to add to the release, please share.
The game doesn't appear to be available at the usual spot on justin.tv, although if anyone finds a place to watch it online enlighten your brethren in the comments, or use them to share your predictions for our mighty Wildcats today. Whatever you do, make sure and ask Matt to run down the TV details in the
LIVEBLOG coming at 3:30. He loves that.
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Update: I forgot to mention that some people will be able to se the game on ESPN360.
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And again: Folks with Comcast in Paducah/Western Kentucky will see the game on channel 96.
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