ST. LOUIS -- The Missouri Valley Football Conference will have more than 60 events on ESPN networks and streaming services during the 2019 season, Commissioner Patty Viverito has announced. The Conference will produce eight league games as part of its 2019 Game of the Week package, with each streaming live as part of the “Valley Football on ESPN” – the league’s co-branded digital presentation.
 
Youngstown State kicks off the season as it faces Samford on ESPN (2 pm CT) in the Guardian Credit Union FCS Kickoff in Montgomery, Ala., on Saturday, Aug. 24.  The league's eight-game production schedule begins on Saturday, Oct. 12, with a doubleheader featuring South Dakota at Missouri State at 2 pm CT and Illinois State at Southern Illinois at 6 pm CT.  An additional 60 games will stream live in conjunction with MVFC institutional packages, with all the games carried on “Valley Football on ESPN.”  Of the league's 62 regular-season home contests, 13 will stream on ESPN3, and the remaining 49 will appear exclusively on ESPN+ -- the leading multisport streaming service.  Notably, for the fourth-straight year, the league will utilize DVSport instant replay during all of 40 of its conference games. 
 
"We are proud to partner exclusively with ESPN to distribute our MVFC football games," says Commissioner Patty Viverito.  "Our fans can find every game we produce on ESPN+ or ESPN3, with many of these games also aired on local stations."
 
The league’s digital initiative is part of its 10-year agreement with ESPN which runs through the 2023-24 academic year, and is available through the ESPN app and features live-event programming on both ESPN3 and ESPN+. 
 
Most of the events will be produced and transmitted by production units on each of the league’s campuses or by regional sports networks, while the league’s 8-game package will be produced and distributed by Tupelo Raycom of Indianapolis, Ind. -- the Conference’s digital production agency.
 
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