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Big Ten Network on DIRECTV

If you're one of the millions that have been waiting for the thrill and excitement of the Big Ten Network to flash across their screen, your wait is over. DIRECTV proudly offers you all the best that the Big Ten Network has to offer. If you're not as familiar with the Big Ten Network as you'd like to be, although you've probably heard all about it from friends, here are some informative tidbits and updates about this popular network that's now available with DIRECTV.

If you want to experience the passion and enthusiasm that's only seen with the Big Ten Conference, you'll want to sign up for the Big Ten Network today. The Big Ten Network first launched in 2007 and runs 24/7. Unlike some sports networks that only offer you a few games and subject you to recorded games that have already taken place and sports reporters giving you the details over and over, the Big Ten Network offers you unprecedented coverage of everything you want to see in sports. It's easy to see all this and more when you sign up at DIRECTV.

Big Ten Network offers you 39 football games with many of these being exclusive prime time games as well as live games, over 55 women's and 140 men's basketball games and over 170 Big Ten sporting events that include volleyball, baseball, hockey, gymnastics, track and much more. . In addition to all these games, the Big Ten Network offers some extra special sports programming including:

• Friday Night Tailgate-This program is seen every Friday night at 8:00 p.m. ET and is to allow the viewers to get in on the action on Big Ten campuses as the students, fans, players and faculty prepare for Saturday's game. The football experts will use the campus and studio give you an in-depth football ball analysis of what's going on with the players and teams, an unprecedented look at Saturday's games as well as what's going on at the "tailgate" on Friday night
• Big Ten Tonight-This show has their own studio at each campus, which gives Big Ten Network availability to coach and player interviews every day. This show will bring you sports features, analysis, interviews, late breaking news and Big Ten highlights that you just won't get from other sports shows.
• Coaches Q&A-This one hour long week show gives you all the recaps of important details and transactions that took place during the press conferences with the coaches, players and media.
• Big Ten Extra Points-If you missed a really great football game because you were watching a different show, Big Ten Extra Points gives you the chance to catch up on what you missed including every field goal, touchdown, extra points and everything that got them the final points they had. This show is on every Monday.
• Big Ten Football Saturday-This show will give your expert coverage of the entire day's events including a one-hour Pre-Game show as well as a Post-Game show with in-depth analysis and special highlights of all the games.

Although nothing is set in stone in the world of sports, there are certain things you can count on with the BIG Ten Network and DIRECTV. The Big Ten Network guarantees that every home Big Ten football game will be produced for a national audience. Every football team will make an appearance on their network at least two times and one of these times will be a conference game. Each of the Big Ten football teams will appear on the Big Ten Network from 3 to 6 times this fall. For instance, of the 12 games Illinois is scheduled to play this fall, 3 of them will be on the Big Ten Network, whereas of Indiana's 12 games, 4 of them are scheduled to be on the Big Ten Network. Of all the football games televised on the Big Ten Network, a large majority of them will be in high definition.

When you sign up for the Big Ten Network, you'll get to see all the schools in the Big Ten Conference with include:

• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Michigan
• Michigan State
• Minnesota
• Northwestern
• Ohio State
• Penn State
• Purdue
• Wisconsin

When you sign up for the Big Ten Network with DIRECTV, you'll get over 400 great sporting events each year. It's easy to get the Big Ten Network when you choose the CHOICE programming package or above.