Sept. 2, 2009

NEW YORK – The YES Network and the University of Notre Dame have reached a multi-year agreement by which YES will air Notre Dame Football Replay – encore presentations of home Notre Dame football games – as well as Inside Notre Dame Football, the weekly show featuring Fighting Irish football coach Charlie Weis.

The season premiere of Notre Dame Football Replay on YES, an encore presentation of the Saturday, September 5 Nevada-Notre Dame season opener, will be on Sunday, September 6 (6 pm ET). NBC Sports will televise all eight Notre Dame home football games live this season. The season premiere of Inside Notre Dame Football on YES will be on Tuesday, September 8 (7:00 pm ET). YES will air each of this season’s 13 episodes of Inside Notre Dame Football several times each week.

In addition to these two Notre Dame shows airing on YES within its traditional New York-area footprint, they will also be included within the network’s national feed distributed by satellite, the telcos and cable.

The YES Network features exclusive telecasts of the 26-time World Champion New York Yankees and the New Jersey Nets, Emmy Award-winning biography, interview and magazine programs, as well as college football and basketball games. The network also presents a live daily simulcast of WFAN’s highly rated Mike’D Up: Francesa on the FAN show. YES is available throughout New York State and Connecticut and in parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania on cable, DirecTV and on the AT&T U-Verse and Verizon FiOS television services. The network is available nationally on DirecTV, U-Verse, FiOS and on select cable systems. Further YES Network information can be found at www.yesnetwork.com.

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