MediaFLO Adds Three News Channels, College Football To Its Lineup

Sep 10, 2008 12:55 PM

MediaFLO has expanded its news coverage to include three new standalone full-time news channels—CNBC and MSNBC from NBC Universal and Fox News. It also will carry live, full-length college football games featuring the top teams in the country. MediaFLO’s mobile television service is available to AT&T subscribers as AT&T Mobile TV and to Verizon Wireless customers as V Cast Mobile TV.

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All three news channels will offer simulcast programming, airing content at the same time it appears on cable. Viewers will be able to watch some of cable TV’s most popular shows on the go, including Mad Money with Jim Cramer on CNBC, Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, and The O’Reilly Factor with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News.

The football programming will include more than 200 hours, including all six Notre Dame home games and match-ups like Florida at Tennessee, Georgia at LSU, the SEC Championship game, and action representing every Bowl Championship Series conference. And once the 2008 season wraps up, MedioFLO will provide more than 20 bowl games.

This programming joins previous MediaFLO news and entertainment offerings like NBC’s The Today Show, CBS’s CSI, and MTV’s The Hills. All programs are available to AT&T and Verizon Wireless subscribers in 58 major metropolitan areas nationwide, including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.