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The Big Ten Network will cover the Big Ten Men's Gymnastics Gymnastics Championships at the Bob Devaney Sports Center March 27-28. It will be the first time Nebraska has
played host to the Big Ten Championships, but the Devaney Center has been home to national and conference championship events for nearly 40 years, including the NCAA
Championships in 1980, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994 and 1999. The 1994 team (pictured above) won the NCAA title at the Devaney Center.
Big Ten Network
Headquartered in Chicago, the Big Ten Network is the first internationally
distributed television network dedicated to covering one of America’s premier
collegiate conferences.
With more than 400 live sports events, and
virtually all of them in high definition, the Big
Ten Network is the ultimate destination for
Big Ten fans and alumni across the country.
The network is on the air 24 hours a day, 365
days a year.
The network is available to an estimated
80 million households, through agreements with more than 300 cable/satellite
affiliates. In 2011 and 2012, every Big Ten home football game was nationally
televised. Including road and neutral games, 99 percent (95 of 96) of Big Ten
games were televised nationally in 2012, while the other road game appeared
on ESPN3.com.
“The Big Ten provides our young men
with many opportunities to strive for
success both in competition and in the
classroom. We have competed against
the Big Ten's best schools for decades,
so we know the caliber of gymnasts in
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the conference. We are certainly excited
• The Big Ten’s media agreements with CBS, ABC/ESPN, Fox and BTN provide the
conference with its greatest television exposure ever.
• In 2006, the Big Ten created the first national conference-owned television
network devoted to the athletic and academic programs of a single conference.
The Big Ten Network launched on Aug. 30, 2007, and became the first new
network in cable or satellite television history to reach 30 million homes in its
first 30 days.
• Since the current media agreements began in 2007-08, every home football
and men’s basketball game has been produced while women’s basketball has
received more coverage than any other conference.
• The Big Ten’s new media agreements have resulted in the broadcast of nearly
1,000 events nationally and regionally on an annual basis, compared to 300
events in the final year of the previous agreements.
about our future in such a tradition-rich
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league. We hope to add to their tradition
and ours in the years to come.”
Nebraska Coach Chuck Chmelka
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