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Friday, May 9th, 2014

NBCSN TO TRANSFORM MORE THAN 70 PUBS NATIONWIDE INTO OFFICIAL PREMIER LEAGUE VIEWING PARTIES IN CELEBRATION OF CHAMPIONSHIP SUNDAY ON MAY 11, 2014

Fans in New York, Washington D.C., Seattle, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Miami to Enjoy NBCUniversal’s Unprecedented Coverage Featuring All 10 Games Live   

New York, NY – May 9, 2014 – NBCSN, home of the Premier League, will turn 70 pubs nationwide into a viewing party extravaganza that will bring fans together to cheer on their favorite teams on the biggest day of the season – Championship Sunday. Top soccer pubs throughout New York City, Washington D.C., Seattle, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Miami will offer NBCUniversal’s most extensive and comprehensive Championship Sunday coverage ever in the U.S. Locals will have the opportunity to experience all 10 matches live simultaneously on 10 different television networks as they are presented by NBCUniversal on Sunday, May 11 at 10 a.m. ET across the company’s umbrella of channels.

The games will be shown on NBC, NBCSN, CNBC, MSNBC, USA, Bravo, E!, Oxygen, Esquire Network and Syfy. In addition, Spanish-language networks Telemundo and mun2 will each televise one match. Click here or visit www.nbcsports.com to view a city-by-city list of NBCSN’s official Premier League viewing party pubs throughout the country. To celebrate Champion Sunday on NBCSN, tweet with #ChampionshipSunday.

“We started the season in soccer bars greeting the fans with the chant – every week, every game, on TV and streaming live,” said John Miller, Chief Marketing Officer, NBC Sports Group. “They liked what they heard so we decided to end the season back in the bars to thank our loyal fans for a great season.”

With only two days to Championship Sunday — the thrilling conclusion to what NBCSN Premier League host Rebecca Lowe said “many believe will go down as the greatest season of the Premier League era” — fans can look forward to watching all 10 matches in a spirited and fully branded Premier League and NBCSN environment. Top quality premium giveaways will include T-shirts, coasters, bottle openers and loyal supporter stickers. High-end prizes will be raffled off, and each bar will be staffed with NBCSN brand ambassadors.

As the exclusive home for the Premier League, NBCSN netted significant Nielsen advances averaging 395,000 viewers, up 80% from the 220,000 watchers during last year’s full season cable average. Nine of the 10 most-watched Premier League games ever on cable have been on NBCSN this season.

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.