SportSouth today announced the debut of Under the Lights: Georgia Southern Football, the next in its series of SportSouth Originals. The 30-minute all-access special spotlights the traditions surrounding the Georgia Southern football program and chronicles the Eagles preparation for their season opener against then top-ranked University of Georgia.
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Under the Lights: Georgia Southern Football premieres on Saturday, October 11 at 6:30 p.m. ET on SportSouth following a live Southern Conference football game between Chattanooga and Wofford at 3 p.m. ET.
The special has additional airings on October 15 at 6 p.m. ET, October 18 at 6:30 p.m. ET and October 23 at 9:30 p.m. ET.
A SportSouth camera and sound crew were embedded with the Georgia Southern football team to cover intense summer three-a-day practices and capture the tradition that embodies the program, from the legend of team’s first head coach Erk Russell to “Beautiful Eagle Creek” and the rundown school buses that take the team to Paulson Stadium on game day. A wireless microphone worn by head coach Chris Hatcher during practice and the game provides unprecedented insight into what Georgia Southern football is all about.
SportSouth has created appointment viewing for its SportSouth Originals franchise. A two-hour block of SportSouth Originals begins every Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET and includes programs such as Under the Lights; In My Own Words; Spotlight; At Home and Straight Up. In the past two years, FSN South and SportSouth have received 14 Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Southeast Chapter, seven of which were awarded to the Original Programming team.
SportSouth is the regional sports network of the Southern Conference, televising live football, men’s and women’s basketball and baseball games and producing ancillary programming featuring Southern Conference schools. Such programming, like Under the Lights: Georgia Southern Football, provides a unique, behind-the-scenes look inside Southern Conference athletics.
SportSouth, the nation’s sixth largest regional sports network, reaches more than nine million cable and satellite homes across a six-state region and FSN South, the nation’s largest regional sports network, reaches more than 12 million cable and satellite homes in seven states in the Southeast. Through its affiliates and other Fox Networks Group-owned networks, FSN reaches more than 70 million homes through 16 owned-and-operated networks. Headquartered in Los Angeles, FSN serves as the television home to more than half of all MLB, NHL and NBA teams based in the United States and produces close to 5,000 live local events each year, including more than 1,600 in high definition.