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Soccer Explosion: Premier League comes to NBC

For fans of English Premier League 'soccer' in the USA, more details were released this week of the unprecedented wall-to-wall coverage — like they've never seen before on the far side of the Pond. All 380 matches next season will be shown live in HD.

SB Nation detail the array of channels that will cover the games after NBC announced its Premier League schedule for the first three months of the season:

The main NBC channel will air 10 matches live on Saturday afternoons, while NBC Sports Network (soon-to-be rebranded as NBCSN) will air 57 matches on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. CNBC will chip in with two additional Sunday matches, while Telemundo and mun2 will handle Spanish-language broadcasts of 27 matches.

NBC will also make every game available via TV Everywhere (the NBC Sports Live Extra App) and via a new package that works similar to the MLB Extra Innings or NFL Sunday Ticket packages. This is known as Premier League Extra Time. To date, AT&T U-Verse, Cablevision, Comcast, DIRECTV, DISH and Suddenlink have opted to carry the Extra Time package. Verizon hasn't agreed to carry Extra Time, but does grant access to the NBC Sports Live Extra app. 100 other partners have also opted in.

The way things will work on most Saturdays is as follows: typically, NBCSN will air a game at 7:45 am ET (4:45 am PT) that has already been scheduled. At 10 am ET (7 am PT), they will air a selected match that will be determined as the season goes along. (All the other 3 pm kick-offs in the UK will be shown on the Extra Time package.) The main NBC channel will air 10 matches between now and 1 December, live at 12:30 pm ET (9:30 am PT). It is the largest-ever commitment to EPL (or really any soccer league) by a broadcast network in the United States.

Arlo White is the lead play-by-play man for the EPL on NBC. He'll call two matches per week with either Lee Dixon or Graham Le Saux. Rebecca Lowe hosts NBC's studio show for all Premier League coverage.

Follow the link for NBC's main 69-game schedule of EPL matches through Dec. 1. (This does not include all the others shown on Extra Time package.) Note that some matches are subject to change due to things like Europa League matches moving games back from Saturdays to Sundays, but most of the matches listed here are fairly set in stone.

Quotes or other material sourced from SB Nation

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