LOS ANGELES, Calif. | The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) announced a deal with HBCU GO on Thursday, which will allow the streaming platform to feature three Grambling State University football games this season.
 
Fans will have the opportunity to see Grambling State nearly every game this season through a variety of platforms.
 
The Tigers will play three games on HBCU GO, starting on Oct. 1 with the State Fair Classic against Prairie View A&M. GSU will also play at Alabama A&M (Oct. 8) and at home against Florida A&M (Oct. 15), with both games being streamed by HBCU GO.
 
The Tigers open the season on Sept. 3 at Arkansas State, a game streamed live on ESPN+. Two weeks later, GSU and Jackson State will be featured on ESPNU, followed by a road trip to Bethune-Cookman on Sept. 24, a game streamed on ESPN+
 
Grambling State's final two home against Alcorn State (Oct. 29) and Arkansas-Pine Bluff (Nov. 5) will be streamed on ESPN+, with the 49^th Annual Bayou Classic to be televised on NBC/Peacock.
 
That leaves just two games remaining on the schedule – versus Northwestern State (Sept. 10) and at Texas Southern (Nov. 12) – as the lone contests not being streamed.
 
The conference announced the partnership with Byron Allen's Allen Media Group (AMG), for the 2022-23 sports seasons as part of the new carriage deal with CBS owned-and-operated duopoly stations.

Key television markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dallas, Atlanta, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, Tampa, Detroit, Miami, and Pittsburgh. HBCU GO will kick off the fall sports season on September 3rd with a star-studded pre-season show featuring the nation's top Gridiron NFL and Black College Hall of Famers and HBCU alums. With this new carriage deal, HBCU GO is currently in 60 percent of U.S. television households and 70 percent of African-American households.

This news comes on the heels of HBCU GO's recent announcement of the distribution partnership with the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) that grants HBCU GO cable, linear, streaming, broadcast, VOD, and pay-per-view rights to premier NCAA Division I HBCU sporting events.

In addition to the newly announced CBS owned-and-operated duopoly station clearances, HBCU GO has secured distribution with group-owned television stations including Nexstar, Gray, Cox, Scripps, Tegna, Sinclair, Lockwood, Allen Media Broadcasting, Hearst, Circle City Broadcasting, McKinnon Broadcasting, Cowles, Graham, Block, Sun Broadcasting, Tougaloo College, Sagamore Hill, and Marquee.  HBCU GO programming is available on HBCUGO.TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and Apple TV. Viewers can also access programming by downloading the HBCU GO App. 


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