Comcast Sets Channels for Maryland Football Game Against Troy State
11/2/2001 7:00:00 AM | Football
Nov. 2, 2001
BETHESDA, Md. -
Comcast SportsNet has teamed with Comcast Cable to provide pay-per-view college football coverage this weekend when
the 15th-ranked Maryland Terrapins host Troy State in a non-conference game
at 1:00 PM in College Park, Md.
The game will be offered on a pay-per-view
basis by Comcast in order to comply with the exclusive rights of the other
ACC games. Comcast has set a $5 charge for the game, and proceeds will be
donated to the University of Maryland College Park Foundation, including the
Tornado Victims Fund.
Channel locations have been set for Comcast Cable
Systems as follows:
Alexandria: ch 76
City of Annapolis: ch 51
Anne Arundel County: ch 53
Arlington: ch 96
Baltimore City: ch 30
Baltimore County: ch 80
Calvert County: ch 60
Harford County: ch 43
Howard County: ch 82
Montgomery County: ch 37
Prince Georges County: ch 79
Washington DC: ch 30
Digital Customers: Tune to Channel 710 on your digital
box(Baltimore City digital customers, tune to channel 30)
Comcast SportsNet is producing the game for pay-per-view distribution in
Maryland, Washington, DC, and northern Virginia, and the game will be
available through Comcast iN DEMAND. Subscribers can order the game by
calling 1-800-885-TERPS.
*Comcast Cable is offering the game at a reduced fee of $5 throughout its mid-Atlantic region, representing a 50
percent discount of its normal college football pay-per-view fee. All
proceeds from pay-per-view fees will be donated to the University of
Maryland College Park Foundation, for use in such initiatives as the
September 11 Memorial Scholarship and the Tornado Victims Fund.
*The telecast will be sponsored fully by Comcast SportsNet and Comcast Cable, resulting in fewer commercial breaks.
Comcast SportsNet, a division of Comcast Corporation, is a service of
Philadelphia-based Comcast Regional Sports Television serving more than five
million homes in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Washington, D.C., via more than 345 cable systems in the
mid-Atlantic region and major satellite services.
