FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, March 30th, 2015

86TH ANNUAL NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL BLUE-GOLD GAME SATURDAY, APRIL 18 AT 12:30 P.M. ET ON NBCSN

Spring Scrimmage Provides Look at Early Enrollee Freshmen and 2015 Fighting Irish Football Team

Head Coach Brian Kelly & Players Wired For Sound; Current and Former Players to be Interviewed Throughout Game

NBC’s 25th Season Televising Notre Dame Football Home Games Begins Saturday, September 5 vs. Texas Longhorns

STAMFORD, Conn. – March 30, 2015 – Notre Dame Football’s 86th annual Blue-Gold game will be televised Saturday, April 18 at 12:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN. The spring football scrimmage will provide fans with their first look at the team’s early enrollee freshmen, as well as a preview of the 2015 Fighting Irish football roster. NBC Sports Live Extra – NBC Sports Group’s live streaming product for desktops, mobile devices, and tablets – will stream coverage of the Notre Dame Blue-Gold Game via “TV Everywhere.”

NBCSN’s coverage of the Blue–Gold game will feature enhanced production elements to give viewers access to additional sights, sounds and aspects of the scrimmage. Elements will include in-game audio from head coach Brian Kelly and select players. In addition, NBCSN will conduct interviews with current players and former Notre Dame standouts.

Due to the renovation of Notre Dame Stadium, the 2015 Blue-Gold game will take place at LaBar Practice Complex in South Bend, Ind.

NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL ON NBC

NBC’s 25th season of broadcasting Notre Dame Football home games begins on Saturday, September 5 when the Fighting Irish host the Texas Longhorns in their season opener. NBC’s broadcast time for the game, as well as a complete TV schedule of NBC Sports Group’s coverage of Notre Dame Football’s 2015 home games, will be announced at a later date.

NBC SPORTS LIVE EXTRA

NBC Sports Live Extra – NBC Sports Group’s live streaming product for desktops, mobile devices, and tablets – will stream coverage of the Blue-Gold Game via “TV Everywhere,” the media industry’s effort to make quality content available to authenticated customers both in and out of the home and on multiple platforms. In addition, NBC Sports Live Extra will stream all Notre Dame football home games for the upcoming 2015 season.

For desktops, NBC Sports Live Extra can be accessed at NBCSports.com/liveextra.

The Blue-Gold Game on NBCSN will live stream to PCs, mobile devices and tablets through NBC Sports Live Extra, and to the digital platforms of participating cable, satellite, and telco services, via “TV Everywhere,” which is available on an authenticated basis to subscribers of participating MVPDs.

Click here for the participating cable/satellite/telco companies offering NBC Sports Live Extra: http://nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com/2013/08/16/nbc-sports-live-extra-providers/

–NBC SPORTS GROUP–