SUNBURY -- Big Ten football, including Penn State, is coming to area cable TV, Dwight Walters, general manager for Service Electric Cablevision, announced Friday afternoon.
"It's been a long time coming," he said. "Our customers should be very pleased. We finally got it done."
Although a start date has not yet been set, Walters said the channel will be available for the Penn State-Akron game on Sept. 5. The channel is available to customers who have Service Electric's premier packages on HD channel 514. The five overflow games will be on channels 181-185.
Customers who have the Classic Cable package without a converter box will have to come to the Sunbury office to pick up a QAM tuner device, Walter said. The QAM unit is easily self-installed and will allow the games to be viewed on Channel 30.People on limited basic cable will be unable to access the Big Ten games at all, he said, and those with older analog sets are also out of luck.
In addition to the Big Ten channel, Walter said, the Fox Business channel will also be available on digital cable.
Service Electric serves customers in Sunbury, Northumberland, Selinsgrove and surrounding communities.
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