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Friday, April 19th, 2013
NBC SPORTS GROUP’S PRESS PASS – WHAT TO WATCH APRIL 19, 2013
(All Times ET)
The “Press Pass” on the NBC Sports Group Press Box is a quick overview with upcoming program information and highlights from the Communications team. “The Pass” provides upcoming listings, and “The ‘Lights” details the programs.
NBC Sports Live Extra, the NBC Sports Group’s live streaming product for digital, mobile and tablets, will live stream NBC Sports Network live-event content to Cablevision, Comcast Xfinity TV, Suddenlink and Verizon FiOS customers via TV Everywhere. More cable, satellite and telco operators to be announced….
THE PASS
Friday, April 19, 2013
6 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – The Crossover
8:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – NHL: Nashville at Chicago
11:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – NHL Overtime
Saturday, April 20, 2013
7 a.m. on NBC Sports Network – F1: Bahrain Qualifying
1 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – Notre Dame Football: Blue and Gold Game
2 p.m. on NBC – 2013 Heads-Up Poker Championship
4 p.m. on NBC – Fight Night
4:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – F1: Bahrain GP2
7 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – NHL: Philadelphia at Carolina
10:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – MLS: Kansas City at Los Angeles
Sunday, April 21, 2013
7:30 a.m. on NBC Sports Network – F1: Bahrain Grand Prix
10 a.m. on NBC Sports Network – F1 Extra
Noon on NBC Sports Network – F1: Bahrain Grand Prix
2:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – F1 Extra
3 p.m. on NBC – NHL: New Jersey at New York Rangers
3 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – Indy Lights
4 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – IndyCar: Grand Prix of Long Beach
7 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – NHL Live
8 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – NHL: St. Louis at Colorado
Monday, April 22, 2013
6 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – The Crossover
6:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – NHL Live
7:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – NHL: Phoenix at Detroit
10 p.m. on Golf Channel – Feherty
11:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – NHL Overtime
THE PRESS PASS
In bonus coverage on Friday, April 19, the Nashville Predators (38 pts.) travel to the United Center in Chicago, Ill., to take on the Blackhawks (70 pts.). Pat Foley (play-by-play) and Eddie Olczyk (analyst) will call the game at 3 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Network.
On Saturday night, April 20 the Washington Capitals (50) travel to the Bell Centre to take on the Montreal Canadiens (59 pts.). Joe Beninati (play-by-play), Craig Laughlin (analyst) and Al Koken (reporter) will call the game at 7 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Network.
NHL on NBC coverage will continue on Sunday, April 21, at 3 p.m. ET with an exciting Atlantic Division matchup between the New Jersey Devils (42 pts.) and New York Rangers (48 pts.). Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick (play-by-play), Eddie Olczyk (analyst) and Pierre McGuire (‘Inside-the-Glass’) will call the action from Madison Square Garden in New York, N.Y.
Sunday Night on NBC Sports Network, the St. Louis Blues (52 pts.) will travel to the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colo., to take on the Avalanche (35 pts.) at 7:30 p.m. ET. Gord Miller (play-by-play) and Brian Engblom (‘Inside-the-Glass’) will call the game.
On Monday, April 22, the Phoenix, Coyotes (44 pts.) travel to Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Mich., to take on the Red Wings (47) at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Network. John Forslund (play-by-play) and Pierre McGuire (‘Inside-the-Glass’) will call the action.
FORMULA ONE: BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX
NBC Sports Network continues its live coverage of Formula One™ this weekend with the Bahrain Grand Prix, airing at 7:30 a.m. ET on Sunday morning, April 21, followed by F1 Extra at 10 a.m. ET. Extensive coverage of the Bahrain Grand Prix includes live practice on Friday, April 19, at 7 a.m. ET, live qualifying on Saturday, April 20, at 7 a.m. ET, plus GP2, F1’s developmental series, at 4:30 p.m. ET.
Leigh Diffey will serve as lead announcer for this week’s Formula One race. Sharing the booth with Diffey will be former racecar driver David Hobbs and analyst Steve Matchett, a former race mechanic for the Benneton F1 team. Will Buxton, F1 insider and former journalist, will serve as the team’s on-site reporter from Shanghai.
NBC Sports Network’s post-race show, F1 Extra, will air live after the Bahrain Grand Prix with an encore on Sunday, April 14, at 2:30 p.m. ET. The 30-minute wrap-up show will be handled by the F1 team of Diffey, Hobbs, Matchett and Buxton from NBC Sports Group’s International Broadcast Center in Stamford, Conn.
2013 HEADS-UP POKER CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED BY WSOP.COM
The National Heads-Up Poker Championship features 64 of the world’s most compelling poker players as they compete in a series of Heads-Up matches (one-on-one games of No Limit Texas Hold’em). The tournament is a single-elimination, bracket-style format modeled after the NCAA Basketball tournament. A player wins a match and advances to the next round; wins six matches and becomes the National Heads-Up Poker Champion. The finals air at 2 p.m. ET on NBC.
NBC Sports Group’s Fight Night boxing series will return to NBC on Saturday at 4 p.m. ET, with a live main event featuring Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) vs. Steve “USS” Cunningham (25-5, 12 KO’s), from The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York, N.Y.
NBC Sports Groups’ Fight Night broadcast team of Kenny Rice (play-by-play), Hall-of-Fame boxing trainer Freddie Roach (analyst),cruiserweight contender B.J. Flores (analyst) and Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix (reporter) will call the action.
NBC Sports Network’s coverage of the 2013 IZOD IndyCar Series continues with the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on Sunday, April 21 at 4 p.m. ET, live from Long Beach, Calif. The race will be preceded by Firestone Indy Lights at 3 p.m. ET. IndyCar qualifying airs on Saturday, April 20, at 6 p.m. ET.
Brian Till helms NBC Sports Network’s IndyCar booth. He is joined by race analyst and former NASCAR driver Wally Dallenbach, Jr. and IndyCar driver Townsend Bell.
Jon Beekhuis reports from pit road. Veterans Kevin Lee and Marty Snider manage the pit, and are joined by Robin Miller, the network’s IndyCar reporter.
MLS
NBC Sports Network’s Major League Soccer coverage this weekend features defending the MLS Cup champion LA Galaxy hosting Sporting Kansas City on Saturday, April 21, at 10:30 p.m. ET.
NBC Sports Group’s MLS announce team of Arlo White (play-by-play) and Kyle Martino (‘Between-the-Benches’) and Russ Thaler (analyst) will host coverage from The Home Depot Center at Los Angeles, Calif.
David Feherty travels to the North Carolina backcountry for what he calls one of his “most honest and enlightening interviews ever” with two-time major champion and 17-time PGA TOUR winner Curtis Strange on the next episode of Feherty, Monday, April 22 at 10 p.m. ET.