Michigan football opens 2023 season exclusively on Peacock Network
Michigan football played in the first game on the Big Ten Network. And now, they are breaking in a new TV platform.
The Wolverines will play in the first Big Ten conference game streamed exclusively on the Peacock Network. U-M will open the 2023 season against East Carolina at noon on Sept. 2, and the only way to watch it if you're not at Michigan Stadium that day will be the streaming-only network, an arm of the NBC/Universal media conglomerate and a new TV partner with the conference.
The NFL, despite its agreement to stream Thursday night games on Amazon Prime, requires those games to be broadcast to over-the-air channels locally in the markets of the two teams playing.
The new TV media rights deal includes games on CBS, too, and Michigan will be on the Tiffany Network in Week 2 when it hosts UNLV. Kickoff of that game is 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 9.
As for Michigan this season, the Sept. 16 game against Bowling Green at 7:30 p.m. on BTN. And U-M's games at Penn State on Nov. 11 and at home against Ohio State on Nov. 25 will both be at noon on Fox.
U-M fans may remember the Wolverines played in the first game on the Big Ten Network, on Sept. 1, 2007. No. 5 Michigan was upset at home, 34-23, in the season opener.
Free Press sports writer Chris Solari contributed to this report.
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