Per a release from ESPN’s Media Zone, the SEC Network will provide the sights and sounds of the halftime band performances live during each of the network’s football games throughout the remainder of the 2016 season.
In addition, coverage of the marching bands will be offered as a second-screen experience on SEC Network +, which is an alternate channel that carries streaming-only events available to SEC Network subscribers via WatchESPN and the ESPN app.
“Each year we look for new ways to further enhance our presentation of college football for the viewer,” said ESPN coordinating producer Steve Ackels. “We are particularly interested in opportunities to visually showcase the fanfare of an SEC game. The infrastructure that has been built at SEC schools offers a unique opportunity for us to capture the incredible halftime shows that dazzle hundreds of thousands every weekend.
“In the SEC, the game day experience is much bigger than the action on the field. It’s the spirit of the 12th man at Texas A&M, Sandstorm at South Carolina and the running through the ‘T’ at Tennessee,” said Ackels. “The fanfare of an SEC football game is like nothing else you’ll find in sports and it’s our job at SEC Network to find ways to bring it home.”
This Saturday, SEC Network + is set to stream Auburn, Georgia, Ole Miss, Missouri and Texas A&M.
Tyler Waddell is a member of the Saturday Down South news team. He brings over five years of professional journalism experience and is closing in on a Bachelor's in sports management. Follow him on Twitter (@Tyler_Waddell).
