Southland Television Network Debuts Saturday

FRISCO, TEXAS (October 3, 2008) The new Southland Conference Television Network makes its live broadcast debut Saturday at 5 p.m. with the non-conference college football game between Texas Southern and Texas State in San Marcos, Texas. The homestanding Bobcats enter the game with a 2-2 record, while Texas Southern is 3-2 this season after winning its last three games.

In addition to numerous Southland network affiliates in the Southwest and South Central U.S., the football schedule will also be available nationally on Fox College Sports. Additionally, this week’s broadcast will also be seen on DirecTV, Channel 617.

The game will also be available on SLC NOW, the Southland's subscription-based on-line video and audio streaming channel. Pricing for the SLC NOW webcast is $5.95 per game, $39.95 for a season pass, or $59.95 for an annual pass, which entitles the subscriber to every live event broadcast by the league.

As one of the nation’s newest and innovative broadcast opportunities, the Southland Conference Television Network will televise 35 events during the 2008-09 academic year. A total of eight football games, 16 basketball contests along with the championship games of the Southland volleyball and baseball tournaments will be featured on the network that will serve numerous television stations and cable systems in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. In addition, the network package includes “Inside the Southland Conference,” a nine-episode monthly magazine show that highlights each of the league’s 12 campuses and their surrounding communities.

The Southland Network presently has the following affiliates: KWCE in Alexandria, La.; WBTR in Baton Rouge, La.; KFDM/Time Warner Cable in Beaumont, Texas; KTBU in Houston; KVHP in Lake Charles, La.; KKYK in Little Rock, Ark.; WVUE 8.2 in New Orleans; Texas State Cable Ch. 17 in San Marcos, TX; KPXJ in Shreveport, La.; MYTX in Tyler, Texas; and select Time Warner Cable systems in Texas (including Austin and Waco). Numerous network broadcasts are also available nationally (including in the Dallas, San Antonio and Corpus Christi areas) on Fox College Sports. Following the game and throughout Texas, the broadcast will be available on Time Warner Cable’s Video-On-Demand service.

Broadcast veteran Doug Anderson will handle play-by-play duties and LaDarrin McClane will be the color analyst. Dave Knobler, the host of “Inside the Southland Conference,” also serves as the sideline reporter during live game telecasts.

Originally, the network was scheduled to debut Sept. 13 for the Grambling State at Northwestern State contest, but safety concerns related to Hurricane Ike’s landfall forced the game to be postponed and the telecast to be cancelled.

For more information on the Southland Conference TV Network and SLC NOW, visit http://www.southland.org/