2018-19 Missouri Valley Conference News Release Missouri Valley Conference MVC Contact 1818 Chouteau Ave. ▪ St. Louis, MO 63103 Mike Kern (
[email protected]) Phone: 314-444-4300 Fax: 314-444-4333 Associate Commissioner for Communications Website: www.mvc-sports.com Office: 314-444-4300 x 4326 Cell: 314-435-4779 October 23, 2018 ▪ For Immediate Release www.mvc-sports.com MVC RELEASES WINTER PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE FOR THE VALLEY ON ESPN Valley Schools, Conference Combine to Produce More than 300 Live Events for ESPN3 and ESPN+ ST. LOUIS -- The Missouri Valley An additional 63 linear live events -- In all, 96 exclusive regular-season Conference and its 10-member schools productions by institutional partners and men’s hoops games will be produced, will combine to produce more than 300 Niles Media Group (the league’s Kansas with 45 linear productions being made live events in the months of November, City-based linear production agency) -- available for ESPN distribution. December, January, February and March, will be made available for distribution via Women’s basketball coverage begins distributed exclusively on The Valley on the ESPN App. Those include regular- on November 9, when Northern Iowa ESPN -- the league’s co-branded digital season and post-season coverage of plays host to Delaware. network. men’s basketball and regular-season A total of 131 exclusive women’s hoops Originally branded and launched as programming for women’s basketball. contests will be shown, and an additional The Valley on ESPN3 in August 2015, the Since the launch of institutional eight linear productions will be made league’s new digital initiative is available production units, the Conference and its available for ESPN distribution.