Get ready for Ivy League sports over the satellite radio waves. Sirius today said they’d inked a deal with the big eight – Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale – to broadcast a game of the week plus a select number of other events.
Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Sirius said, the game of the week to be broadcast will draw from the sports of football and men’s basketball. Men’s hockey and other games across the Ivy League sports scene, meanwhile, will fall into the select number of broadcasts category.
The Ivy League football season kicks off Saturday, September 17 and men’s basketball tips off Friday, November 11. The complete Sirius broadcast schedules for both football and basketball will be announced at later dates.
“We’re thrilled to add the Ivy League to our roster of sports offerings on SIRIUS,” said Steve Cohen, Vice President of Sports Programming for SIRIUS. “Not only can alumni and fans of the Ivies follow their teams from anywhere in the country, but fans everywhere will be able to experience some of the most historic rivalries in sports.”
“SIRIUS Satellite Radio offers an outstanding sports lineup and we’re very excited to be a part of it,” said Ivy League Executive Director Jeff Orleans. “Our League is a truly national one, with our football players alone coming this year from 46 states plus the nation’s capital and Canada. Joining with SIRIUS gives us a wonderful opportunity to provide Ivy League sports to a national and growing audience.”
