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The ESPN College Football Best Saturday Ever Sweepstakes: a local ad sales promo that offers your affiliates a piece of the action

A sports-filled weekend as a VIP guest of ESPN = solid business for your local ad sales affiliates and value for ESPN.

In July & August over 50 systems from many of our top affiliates including: Comcast, Cox, Charter, Insight and CableOne signed up to participate in this fall's biggest College Football promotion. The promotion will reach over 9.9M subscribers and drive viewers online to signup for a College Football experience only ESPN can deliver.

This November, one lucky winner and a guest will tour the ESPN studios in Bristol, enjoy a live college football viewing experience and spend Sunday at the ESPN Zone in New York City, with travel, hotel and meals all on ESPN

In addition, select Time Warner Cable markets are participating in a customized version of the promotion (reaching an additional 4M subscribers).

Promotion support includes a suite of customizable marketing materials including sweepstakes spots and POP materials. In opting in to partcipate, affiliates agree to run a minimum of 300 tune-in spots between September 1 and September 30 (Suggested target networks: BET, Comedy, Discovery, MTV, TBS, USA).

Have an affiliate looking for more Football? Check out ESPN U and ESPN Monday Night Football taggable spots and materials now available on the Affiliate Zone

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ESPN College Football Best Saturday Ever Sweepstakes