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Information about how to purchase the telecast, including a list of participating cable systems and satellite providers, is attached. It will be updated frequently in the days leading up to the game. Details will be posted on Huskers.com and FoxSports.com, search: Midwest as they become available.
Suggested retail price for residential purchase is $29.95. Big 12 Special Order Sports, Fox Sports Net’s pay-per-view division, will produce and distribute the telecast.
The game is being televised on pay-per-view because it was not selected for over-the-air broadcast or cable television coverage. Participating cable and satellite providers will offer the telecast to their customers on a specially designated pay-per-view channel. The telecast will not pre-empt FSN’s regularly scheduled programming.
FSN Nebraska basketball television announcer Greg Sharpe will call the play-by-play alongside former Husker Matt Davison as analyst, with FSN’s Stacy Paetz as sideline reporter.
The Nebraska-BallState game will be the ninth Nebraska football game distributed on pay-per-view, following: Oct. 12, 2002 vs. Missouri; Oct. 25, 2003 vs. IowaState; Sept. 4, 2004 vs. Western Illinois; Oct. 2, 2004 vs. Kansas; Sept. 3, 2005 vs. Maine; Oct. 15, 2005 at Baylor; Sept. 23, 2006 vs. Troy; and Oct. 14, 2006 at KansasState. Nebraska won all eight of those games.
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To date, the following programming providers have agreed to offer the Nebraska-BallState pay-per-view telecast. For availability in their specific areas, customers should contact their cable or satellite provider. Additional providers and ordering information will be announced in the days leading up to the game. Check Huskers.com or FoxSports.com (search: Midwest) for updates.
Programming Provider
Ordering Information
Location(s)
NEBRASKA
Arapahoe Cable TV
Call (308) 962-7298; channel 10
Arapahoe
Cable TV of Stanton
Call (402) 439-5000; channel 99
Stanton
CableOne
Channel 299
Norfolk
Cable Nebraska
Call (877) 234-0102
Kearney, additional areas
Charter
Order on screen or call (888) GET-CHARTER;
channel 701
Kearney, additional areas
Comstar
Call (402) 228-0683; channel 97
Beatrice, Pickrell
Cox
Order on screen or call (402) 933-3000; channel 516
Omaha, additional areas
Galaxy
Call (402) 362-3332 or (800) 365-6988; channel 18 in Gretna and 19 in Wilber
Gretna, Wilber, additional areas
Glenwood Telecomm
Call (402) 756-3131; channel 19
Blue Hill
Great Plains Cable TV
Call (888) 343-8014; channel 830
Bloomfield, additional areas
Huntel Cablevision
Call (402) 426-6200 in Blair; call (888) 262-2661 in Wayne; channel 97 in Blair; channel 3 in Wayne
Blair, Wayne
Nebraska Central Telecom
Call (888) 873-6282; channel 18
Gibbon
Qwest
Call (402) 691-1999 Option 1; channel 76
Omaha
Time Warner
Order on screen, at timewarnercable.com or call (402) 421-0300; channel 102
Lincoln, Superior
IOWA
Cable One
Order on screen; channel 299
Sioux City
NATIONAL
DirecTV
Channel 696; Notes: Customers may order on screen; on-screen ordering likely won’t be available until the morning of the game; Customers can order via phone at 1-800-DirecTV, beginning sometime on Friday
Dish Network
Order on screen or call; Channel number and ordering information TBA
KANSAS AND MISSOURI
Comcast
Call (816) 795-1100; channel 698
Independence, Mo., Olathe, Kan.
Cunningham
Call (800) 287-8495; channel 312
Glen Elder, Kan.
Pioneer
Order on screen or call (800) 308-7536; channel 340
Ulysses, Kan.
Sunflower
Order on screen or call (785) 841-2100; channel 356
Lawrence
Time Warner
Order on screen or call (816) 358-8833; channel 498
Kansas City area
Some cable providers may also accept orders in person at local offices.