SAC adds Tennessee, Hickory, NC outlets to its television package

ROCK HILL, SC - The South Atlantic Conference has added a pair of outlets to its already announced television package.

Charter Communications in Hickory, North Carolina, will air the SAC games on Wednesdays following the game at 7 p.m. This will add 122,000 homes in Catawba, Alexander, Watauga, Avery, Caldwell, Burke, Lincoln, Wilkes, McDowell, Mitchell and Yancey counties. The games will air on channels 10 and 33.

Also, WVLT-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee will air the games on Sundays the week after the game, at 5 p.m. The first game to air will be the Carson-Newman at Newberry game on Sunday, October 8. WVLT will add another 723,000 households to the SAC television network.

This week's television game is Tusculum at Lenoir-Rhyne. Other games in the package are Presbyterian at Catawba on Nov. 4 and Mars Hill at Wingate on Nov. 11.

Previously announced, the games will be available on Time Warner Cable outlets in the Charlotte region of North Carolina, reaching approximately 400,000 homes, as well as Charter Cable Systems in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson market, which has an additional 300,000 homes. Charter Cable subscribers in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson market will also be able to view the games on video on demand.

The games will air on Thursdays following the game on Time Warner outlets in the Charlotte region. In Mecklenburg, the games will air at 12:30 p.m. on channel 9. The Metrolina system, including Salisbury and Albemarle, will carry the games at noon on channel 19. In Gastonia, the games will air on channel 9 at 12:30 p.m. In Shelby, the games will be at 1 p.m. on channel 9. Rockingham will have the games at 1 p.m. on channel 15, while Monroe will have the games on channel 9 at 12:30 p.m.

The games will be available on channel 10 on Charter Cable throughout the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson market.

The games will air in Greenville, Spartanburg & Anderson at 8 pm on Wednesdays and 4 pm on Wednesdays in Asheville.

The South Atlantic Conference is one of the premier NCAA Division II conferences in the country and strives for academic success and athletic achievement. Member schools include Catawba College in Salisbury, NC; Carson-Newman College in Jefferson-City, TN; Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, NC; Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, TN; Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, NC; Newberry College in Newberry, SC; Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC; Tusculum College in Greeneville, TN; and Wingate University in Wingate, NC.