ESPN and Time Warner Cable Launch 'ESPN Goal Line'

Time Warner Cable Customers Will Have Access to New Weekly Network Featuring Highlights from Top College Football Games

On September 4, ESPN will launch ESPN Goal Line, a new HD network available at launch to Time Warner Cable Sports Tier subscribers. ESPN Goal Line features unlimited live cut-ins and highlights from numerous top college football games during each Saturday of the college football season, plus up-to-the-minute commentary from ESPN analysts and experts, including ESPNEWS anchor Anish Shroff, who will serve as the primary host, and Rod Gilmore, who will be the main analyst. Time Warner Cable customers will be the first in California, Arizona and Hawaii to have access to ESPN Goal Line.

Games featured on ESPN Goal Line will include those airing on ESPN’s family of networks, as well as syndicated and locally-produced games from Football Bowl Subdivision conferences, capturing the best live action of the day.

For the 2010 season, the ESPN Goal Line programming will be weekends only, starting Saturdays at Noon ET until games are complete, around 11:30 pm ET. A similar service called Buzzer Beater is planned in time for college basketball season.

ESPN Goal Line will be available on channel 392 from customers is the Los Angeles area*, channel 803 for customers in San Diego and North County (Carlsbad), channel 503 for customers in Desert Cities, Yucca and Banning, channel 1239 for customers in Hawaii and channel 797 for customers in Yuma, Arizona. For more information on Time Warne Cable’s Sports Tier, call 1-800-TWCABLE.

* Beginning Saturday, September 4th, ESPN Goal Line will be available in the West Valley, South Pasadena, San Marino, San Fernando, Stevenson Ranch, Canyon Country, Ventura, Moorpark, Thousand Oaks/Camarillo, Oxnard/Port Hueneme and Simi Valley. ESPN Goal Line will be available throughout the entire Los Angeles market area September 18th.


About Time Warner Cable:
Time Warner Cable is the second-largest cable operator in the U.S., with technologically advanced, well-clustered systems located mainly in five geographic areas — New York State (including New York City), the Carolinas, Ohio, southern California (including Los Angeles) and Texas. Time Warner Cable serves more than 14 million customers who subscribe to one or more of its video, high-speed data and voice services. Time Warner Cable Business Class offers a suite of phone, Internet, Ethernet and cable television services to businesses of all sizes. Time Warner Cable Media Sales, the advertising arm of Time Warner Cable, offers national, regional and local companies innovative advertising solutions that are targeted and affordable. More information about the services of Time Warner Cable is available at www.timewarnercable.com, www.twcbc.com and www.twcmediasales.com.
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