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BTN to Air Seven Winter Championships
Feb. 8, 2012 CHICAGO - For the fifth consecutive year, BTN will televise seven winter Big Ten Championships, including men's and women's swimming and diving, wrestling, men's and women's indoor track and field and men's and women's gymnastics. Every event will be produced in high definition, including live coverage of the entire Big Ten Men's Gymnastics Championships, the final rounds of the Big Ten Wrestling Championships and the final session of the Big Ten Women's Gymnastics Championships. Coverage begins at 11 AM ET on Saturday, Feb. 25, with the Big Ten Women's Swimming and Diving Championships from the University of Iowa. The Big Ten Men's Swimming and Diving Championships will air at 10 AM ET on Saturday, March 3, from Iowa City, Iowa. BTN's coverage of Big Ten Wrestling Championships will be carried live at 3 PM ET on Sunday, March 4, from the campus of Purdue University. The Big Ten Men's and Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships will air at 1:30 PM ET on Saturday, March 10. The University of Nebraska will host both the men's and women's events. On Saturday, March 24, BTN will televise the first session of the Big Ten Women's Gymnastics Championships at 6 PM ET, followed by the second session live at 7 PM ET. Iowa will host both men's and women's events. The network will have live coverage of the Big Ten Men's Gymnastics Championships on consecutive nights at 8 PM ET on Friday, April 6, and Saturday, April 7. The Big Ten currently has 41 teams ranked in the top 25 nationally in Olympic sports programs for the winter season, including top-20 programs in men's gymnastics (No. 2 Illinois, No. 3 Penn State, No. 4 Ohio State, No. 6 Minnesota, No. 8 Michigan, No. 11 Nebraska, No. 12 Iowa), women's gymnastics (No. 8 Nebraska, No. 10 Penn State, No. 11 Ohio State, No. 19 Illinois), men's swimming and diving (No. 4 Michigan, No. 9 Ohio State, No. 11 Indiana, No. 14 Iowa, No. 16 Minnesota, No. 17 Purdue), women's swimming and diving (No. 12 Indiana, No. 14 Ohio State, No. 15 Minnesota, No. 17 Michigan, No. 19 Wisconsin, No. 20 Penn State), men's indoor track and field (No. 10 Minnesota, No. 12 Indiana, No. 13 Nebraska, No. 15 Ohio State, No. 17 Wisconsin, No. 20 Iowa), women's indoor track and field (No. 18 Ohio State) and wrestling (No. 2 Penn State, No. 4 Minnesota, No. 5 Iowa, No. 6 Ohio State, No. 7 Illinois, No. 8 Nebraska, No. 11 Michigan, No. 18 Northwestern).
The complete television schedule for the Big Ten Winter Championships appears below. For more information, go to www.btn.com or www.bigten.org. 2012 BTN Winter Championships Schedule:
About BTN: A joint venture between the Big Ten Conference and Fox Networks, BTN is the first internationally distributed network dedicated to covering one of the premier collegiate conferences in the country. With more than 800 events, all in HD, the 24/7 network is the ultimate destination for Big Ten fans and alumni across the country, allowing them to see their favorite teams, regardless of where they live. Events include football, men's and women's basketball games; dozens of Big Ten Championship events; studio shows; coaches' shows; and classic games. The network televises and streams more Olympic sporting events and women's sports than has ever been aired on any other network. Original programming highlights activities and accomplishments of some of the nation's finest universities. The groundbreaking Student U initiative provides real-world experience for students interested in careers in sports television. The network is available to more than 80 million homes across the United States and Canada, and currently has agreements with more than 300 affiliates, including AT&T U-Verse, Atlantic Broadband, Cablevision, Charter, Comcast, Cox, DirecTV, DISH Network, Insight, Mediacom, Rogers Cable (Canada), Shaw Cable and Shaw Direct (Canada), Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS. For updated information, go to www.btn.com. |
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