SEC Network to Feature a Record 47 Hours of Original Studio Programming for 2023 SEC Kickoff Presented by Regions, Live from Nashville July 17-20

SEC Network to Feature a Record 47 Hours of Original Studio Programming for 2023 SEC Kickoff Presented by Regions, Live from Nashville July 17-20

SEC Network to Feature a Record 47 Hours of Original Studio Programming for 2023 SEC Kickoff Presented by Regions, Live from Nashville July 17-20

  • Documentary debuts include Roy Kramer: A Vision for the SEC and Them Dawgs
  • SEC Nation primetime special airs Tuesday on SECN and ESPN2 with live guests
  • More than a dozen on-air personalities to provide commentary and perspective from Music City

SEC Network will boast 47 hours of original programming surrounding the 2023 SEC Kickoff Presented by Regions, the most in the network’s history. SEC This MorningSEC Now and The Paul Finebaum Show will showcase complete coverage from the annual media days event, set in Nashville, Tenn., for the first time – the third city to host the event, and featuring a special edition of SEC Nation on Tuesday night.

An expansive roster of college football analysts will contribute to SEC Network’s presence in Nashville at the Grand Hyatt, including Jordan Rodgers, Greg McElroy, Roman Harper, Paul Finebaum, Takeo Spikes, Benjamin Watson, Chris Doering and more. Studio hosts for the four-day conference media day kickoff include Joe Tessitore, Dari Nowkhah, Peter BurnsAlyssa Lang, Marty Smith and Finebaum.

SEC This Morning
SEC This Morning, hosted by Burns and Doering, returns for its fifth SEC Kickoff. The duo delves into all things SEC, with all the headlines, highlights and hijinks from around the conference. The show will be simulcast on SEC Network (and Sirius XM channel 374) live from Music City, and will air at 8 a.m. ET until the start of each day’s podium action.

SEC Now
SEC Now: 2023 SEC Kickoff Presented by Regions will have full coverage from Nashville beginning Monday, July 17 at 11 a.m., with analysis and insight of the day’s proceedings. Coaches and players from all 14 SEC teams will stop by the set during their time at the media event. Tessitore, Nowkhah and Lang will rotate duties in the anchor chair, with nearly two dozen hours of SEC Now surrounding all 14 coaches’ podium trips.

The Paul Finebaum Show
The network’s coverage will also be anchored by The Paul Finebaum Show Presented by Regions each afternoon, with various coaches, players and media cycling through the SEC Network set. The show, which will have reaction to the latest news and buzz of the annual college football kickoff event, will also air on ESPN Radio.

SEC Nation
GRAMMY-nominated band Midland will headline a free concert on Tuesday, July 18. The event on Lower Broadway will activate at 6 p.m. and will be part of a special edition of SEC Nation Presented by Regions on ESPN2 and SEC Network at 7 p.m. The street concert will follow at approximately 8 p.m. Regions will host fan engagement opportunities on site throughout the evening, and SEC Network will have its own brand activation featuring a photo booth, free swag and more. Full details.

Planned in-person guests for the SEC Nation primetime show include comedian Nate Bargatze, SEC head coaches Josh Heupel (Tennessee) and Clark Lea (Vanderbilt), and SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. Head coach Kirby Smart of two-time defending champion Georgia is also expected to join

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Eglin Air Pressure Base opens online video gaming centre presented by USO

Eglin Air Pressure Base opens online video gaming centre presented by USO

EGLIN AFB — The official ribbon-reducing for the new video clip gaming centre at Eglin Air Force Foundation was nonetheless a half-hour absent, but the 24 gaming stations supplied by the USO ended up by now crowded Thursday afternoon by airmen eagerly tests their capabilities.

But the games ended up only a part of the purpose the airmen were so eager to test out the new facility in the base’s Legends constructing, situated amongst base dormitories and the fitness centre in the vicinity of the East Gate.

“It enables us to come with each other … and get to know each other in a unique way,” explained Airman 1st Class David Burrow of the 96th Communications Squadron.

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And in fact, it was the social facet of the gaming centre, which also is stocked with totally free beverages and snacks, that enthusiastic the USO and Eglin management to establish what Jim Whaley, president of the USO’s Southeast Area, called the “flagship gaming middle for the USO worldwide.”

“The complete strategy is to give them a very little little bit of property,” Whaley mentioned of the USO’s function to deliver the Eglin Gaming Intricate to the installation’s airmen. 

An airman plays a game of "Halo Infinite" during the grand opening of the state-of-the-art Gaming Complex at Eglin Air Forde Base. The games will provide a way for airmen to connect with one another and their family and friends at home.

The centre, valued at a lot more than $1 million — together with the condition of the artwork gaming computer systems donated by Xbox, specialised gaming chairs, keyboards and headsets donated by Razer Inc., and more assistance from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation — acknowledges that, just as bowling alleys and film theaters provided sites for navy personnel to connect in a long time past, today’s airmen, troopers, sailors and Marines socialize in excess of movie games.

Ross Ledford, the USO’s regional gaming gatherings manager, who was instrumental in location up the Gaming Complex, manufactured that point by noting that the USO’s possess survey of male assistance associates among the ages of 18 and 34 confirmed that 70% of them named movie gaming as their favored leisure exercise.

It should be observed that a selection of female airmen ended up at the complex for the grand opening. 

In addition to supplying airmen with an chance to connect with 1 another, both equally in the Eglin complex and digitally with other gamers close to the planet, the Gaming Advanced makes it possible for them to enjoy video games and connect with family members members.

“Each console in the middle is like a portal to their relatives and close friends,” explained Place Drive Master Sgt. Michael Sullivan, who functions in that service’s Business office of Inspector Common at Eglin.

Brig. Gen. Scott Cain, commander of the 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, and Jim Whaley, president of the USO's Southeast Region, wield the scissors during the grand opening of the base's video gaming center.

Sullivan, a deeply significant gaming aficionado who presided about Thursday’s opening, explained it just helps make perception to tie the attractiveness of online video gaming to airmen’s capability to get to

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