FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, August 26th, 2013
SCHEDULE CHANGE: CARDIFF CITY – AFTER UPSET OF MANCHESTER CITY – FACE TIM HOWARD & EVERTON SATURDAY AT 10 A.M. ET ON NBCSN
All Matches Available on NBC Sports Live Extra
STAMFORD, Conn. – August 26, 2013 – NBC Sports Group’s Premier League coverage continues this week with four games on NBCSN and one on NBC. In a schedule change, the Cardiff-Everton match, featuring Everton and U.S. Men’s National Team goalkeeper Tim Howard and newly promoted Cardiff City, fresh off their win over Manchester City, has been moved into the Saturday 10 a.m. ET slot on NBCSN.
The three additional games in the Saturday 10 a.m. time slot and the additional Sunday game in the 8:30 a.m. time slot will be available on Premier League Extra Time, a bonus television package available to MVPDs at no extra cost for customers who receive NBC Sports Network. The interactive Premier League Game Finder can be accessed at http://www.nbcsports.com/ExtraTime.
Telemundo and mun2 will each telecast a match in Spanish this week (listed in table below).
Lead play-by-play voice Arlo White joins former Premier League star and four-time league champion Lee Dixon to call Crystal Palace-Sunderland on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. ET on NBC. White and Graeme Le Saux, the former Premier League star who played in 36 international matches for England, will call the Arsenal-Tottenham match on Sunday at 11 a.m. ET on NBCSN.
All matches will be preceded and followed by Premier League Live pre- and post-match shows from the NBC Sports Group International Broadcast Center in Stamford, Conn. Rebecca Lowe hosts Premier League Live alongside former U.S. National Team midfielder Kyle Martino and former Jamaican National Team Player Robbie Earle.
All Premier League games will be streamed on NBC Sports Live Extra, NBC Sports Group’s live streaming product for desktops, mobile devices and tablets. Games airing on NBC Sports Network will be live streamed via “TV Everywhere,” the media industry’s effort to make quality content available to MVPD customers both in and out of the home and on multiple platforms.
To date, AT&T U-verse®, Bright House Networks, Cablevision’s Optimum, Comcast’s Xfinity TV, Cox, DIRECTV, Mediacom, Suddenlink, and Time Warner Cable have opted to carry the additional Premier League matches via the Premier League Extra Time package, and AT&T U-verse, Cablevision’s Optimum, Charter, Comcast’s Xfinity TV, Cox, DIRECTV, DISH, Suddenlink and Verizon FiOS will make all Premier League games available through TV Everywhere. Additionally, over 100 NCTC partners have either signed-on to the Premier League Extra Time package or have opted-in via TV Everywhere, including Blue Ridge Communications, Buckeye CableSystem, CenturyLink Prism, and RCN. In some cases, the Premier League Extra Time package will be available in select markets.
Following is the NBCUniversal schedule for the second week of the Premier League season:
Date | Time | Home-Away | Network |
Tues., Aug. 27 | 12 a.m. | Barclays Premier League Review | NBCSN |
1 a.m. | Barclays Premier League Encore: Manchester Monday | NBCSN | |
Wed., Aug. 28 | 12 a.m. | Barclays Premier League Encore | NBCSN |
2 a.m. | Barclays Premier League Review | NBCSN | |
Thurs., Aug. 29 | 7 p.m. | Barclays Premier League World | NBCSN |
7:30 p.m. | Barclays Premier League Match Pack | NBCSN | |
Fri., Aug. 30 | 7 a.m. | Barclays Premier League News | NBCSN |
7 p.m. | Barclays Premier League Preview | NBCSN | |
Sat., Aug. 31 | 7 a.m. | Premier League Live | NBCSN |
7:45 a.m. | Manchester City-Hull City | NBCSN | |
9:45 a.m. | Premier League Live | NBCSN | |
10 a.m. | Cardiff City-Everton | NBCSN | |
10 a.m. | Newcastle-Fulham | Extra Time | |
10 a.m. | West Ham-Stoke City | Extra Time | |
10 a.m. | Norwich City-Southampton | Extra Time | |
Noon | Premier League Live | NBCSN | |
12:30 p.m. | Crystal Palace-Sunderland | NBC | |
11 p.m. | NBCSN’s Match of the Day | NBCSN | |
Sun., Sept. 1 | 8 a.m. | Premier League Live | NBCSN |
8:30 a.m. | Liverpool-Manchester United | NBCSN, Telemundo | |
8:30 a.m. | West Brom-Swansea City | Extra Time | |
10:30 a.m. | Premier League Live | NBCSN | |
11 a.m. | Arsenal-Tottenham Hotspur | NBCSN, mun2 | |
1 p.m. | Barclays Premier League Goal Zone | NBCSN | |
11 p.m. | NBCSN’s Match of the Day II | NBCSN | |
Mon., Sept. 2 | 12 a.m. | NBCSN’s Match of the Week | NBCSN |
NBC Sports Group presents the most ambitious, extensive and comprehensive coverage of the Premier League available anywhere in the world with all 380 Premier League matches available live in the United States on the networks of NBCUniversal, on the Premier League Extra Time bonus TV package, and streamed live on NBC Sports Live Extra. In total, NBC Sports Group will present more than 1,600 hours of Premier League programming.
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