Big Ten and Fox Announce Official Name and Unveil Logo for Big Ten Network."The Television Home of the Big Ten Conference" Launches Mobile Tour; First Stops are Penn State and Wisconsin this Weekend PARK RIDGE Park Ridge, city (1990 pop. 36,175), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb adjacent to Chicago, on the Des Plaines River; inc. 1873. It is chiefly residential. Several national and international corporations have their headquarters in Park Ridge. Nearby is O'Hare International Airport. , Ill. -- The Big Ten Conference and Fox Cable Networks today announced the official name and unveiled the logo for their 20-year broadcast partnership which from this point on will be called the Big Ten Network. The network, which was announced in June, will launch in August 2007 and will operate 24-hours a day, 365-days a year. The Big Ten Network will be majority-owned by the Big Ten Conference, while Fox will hold a minority interest in the new network. The Big Ten Network logo features 11 stars below the "Big Ten Network" text representing the conference's 11 member institutions. "The announcement of the official name of the Big Ten Network and the development of the new logo will aid in creating brand awareness of our network nationwide," said Big Ten Commissioner James E. Delany. The Big Ten Network is dedicated to becoming the destination for Big Ten fans around the country. Showcasing a wide array of classic-to-current sports as well as original programming produced by the conference's 11 institutions, it will be available to all carriers and distributors nationwide. The Big Ten Network's first affiliate, DIRECTV, will deliver the Network through its Total Choice Package to subscribers at launch. In addition to traditional distribution through cable and satellite, select Big Ten Network content will also be available through alternative media platforms such as the Internet, iPods, cell phones and/or other emerging technologies. "Plans for the Big Ten Network are rapidly moving forward, and we are excited about the launch of our new network's identity," said Fox Sports Networks President Bob Thompson. In a joint effort to provide additional information to the public, the Big Ten Conference and Fox Cable Networks will launch the Big Ten Network Mobile Tour this weekend. The mobile tour will visit Penn State University for the Michigan-Penn State football game and the University of Wisconsin for the Minnesota-Wisconsin football game. The Big Ten Network Mobile Tour will visit member institutions throughout the 2006 football season as well as other athletic events in the winter and spring. The Mobile Tour features a branded gazebo gazebo Lookout in the form of a turret, cupola (small, lanternlike dome), or garden house set on a height to give an extensive view. Few late-18th- and 19th-century rustic gazebos survive, but 17th-century turrets built up in an angle of the garden wall are not uncommon. and designated staff who will be providing information and updates regarding the Big Ten Network. For more information regarding the Big Ten Network, visit www.bigten.org. A jpeg version of the logo is available with this release. The Big Ten Conference is an association of 11 world-class universities whose member institutions share a common mission of research, graduate, professional and undergraduate teaching and public service. Founded in 1896, the Big Ten has sustained a comprehensive set of shared practices and policies that enforce the priority of academics in student-athletes' lives and emphasize the values of integrity, fairness and competitiveness. Big Ten universities provide in excess of $89 million in athletic scholarship An athletic scholarship is a form of scholarship to attend a college or university awarded to an individual based predominantly on their ability to play in a sport. They are common in the United States, but in many countries they are rare or non-existent. aid to more than 8,400 men and women student-athletes who compete for 25 championships, 12 for men and 13 for women. Conference institutions sponsor broad-based athletic programs with more than 270 teams. For more information, visit www.bigten.org. Fox Cable Networks (FCN FCN First Coast News (Florida) FCN Function FCN Federation of Canadian Naturists FCN Fox Cable Networks FCN Free Core Nutation FCN Federal Communicators Network FCN Fußball Club Nürnberg (Germany) ), a unit of the Fox Networks Group, a wholly owned division of News Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NWS NWS National Weather Service NWS Naval Weapons Station NWS New World Symphony NWS Nuclear Weapon State NWS Not Work Safe NWS National Watercolor Society NWS North Warning System NWS Nose Wheel Steering NWS National Waste Strategy (UK) ), includes 29 domestic programming services in which News Corporation holds interests. These networks collectively service more than 400 million television homes and represent one of the media industry's largest and most diverse groups of programming operations. FCN networks include FX, FSN (Full-Service Network) A communications network that provides shopping, movies on demand and access to databases and a variety of interactive services. and its 15 owned-and-operated regional sports networks In the United States of America, a Regional Sports Network, or RSN, is a cable television station that presents sports programming to a local market. The most important programming on an RSN consists of live broadcasts of professional and college sporting events, as those games ; National Geographic Channel
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