Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Night Fever -- ABC Announces Primetime College Football

(From Sports Business Daily)

ABC SPORTS will launch ABC SATURDAY NIGHT COLLEGE FOOTBALL next season, which ABC calls the first season-long primetime college football series on a broadcast network.

The series begins September 2nd with Notre Dame/Georgia Tech.

All telecasts in the 12-week series, an expansion of last year's offering of four Saturday primetime games, will have 8 pm ET start times and air in HD.

Play-by-play announcer BRENT MUSBERGER will be joined in the booth by analyst BOB DAVIE and, in certain weeks, analyst KIRK HERBSTREIT. LISA SALTERS will serve as sideline reporter.

ESPN's COLLEGE GAMEDAY will kick off its season from the site of ABC's first two games.

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