The football season is one of the most defining moments for avid sports enthusiasts who keenly wait for their preferred teams to engage on the football field each weekend. Now let’s assume that you are a television service user of Dish Network. You will probably be interested to know which channel has the football games on. Below is the information that may assist the Dish Network customer in finding out where to tune in to football games depending on the package and the channels the customer subscribes to during the football season.
Football Channels Provided by the Dish Network for Watching NFL Football
For NFL football games, the viewers who have Dish Network can make use of the following options to watch the live events.
- NFL Network – We get this channel on cable at number 154.
- NFL RedZone – This channel is easily accessible under channel number 155.
- Fox Sports – Channel 150
- CBS Sports – Free to air/scheduled on channel number 152
The NFL Network and NFL RedZone are included in Dish Network Packages that are known as America’s Top. NFL Network displays a package of current regular season and preseason games, whereas NFL RedZone offers subsequent looks at games and brief highlights of all the Sunday afternoon contests simultaneously.
National games airing on Sunday afternoons and Sunday evenings can be watched on your local Fox and CBS channels on Dish Network and NFL Thursday night, Sunday night, and Monday night football broadcasts. Just remember that the exact number of channels with the local affiliates will vary by region and Dish package.
Dish Network College Football Channels
In addition to pro football, Dish Network offers several channels for viewers to watch top college football games:
- ESPN - Channel 140
- ESPN2 - Channel 141
- ESPNU - Channel 141
- SEC Network - Channel 611
- I am familiar with the Big Ten Network, and it can be found on channel 610.
These stations broadcast college football games each week for all the NCAA’s major conferences and all divisions. ESPN and ESPN2 are especially involved in broadcasting particularly highlighted meetings in special TV slots such as Saturday Night College Football. Meanwhile, ESPNU has more emphasis on college sports and this has a lot of emphasis on football.
ESPN stations are usually numbered, but the numbers may differ, and most of the ESPN stations are included in the Dish Network’s programming packages even in the most basic package. Sports conference channels like SEC Network and Big Ten Network, therefore, are typically excluded from the basic packages and instead are normally included in the higher priced packages and bundles.
Trying to locate your favorite channel numbers
Huge national stations for sports are provided by Dish Network for all the regions of the country, however, local network affiliates’ numbers may vary depending on the area and chosen TV package. This means your CBS (channel 152) might be 152 in one city and 652 in another city, so the actual number may vary depending on that.
To find which channel airs your local CBS, Fox, NBC, or other station:
- Press the guide button to display the guide menu on your Dish remote.
- Select "Local Channels"
- It is very easy to locate your local CBS, Fox, NBC, etc, and make sure you jot down the channel position number.
After football season begins, you can switch to the said channel number on the game day to catch more primetime and nationally televised games airing on the Dish Network in your broadcasting region.
More Dish Network Packages to Watch Football
Beyond the main football channels highlighted above, Dish Network offers a few more ways to make sure you catch all the football action during peak season:
- Multi-channel viewer: One of the features of the multi-channel viewer lets you view up to four channels at the same time which will be quite useful to keep an eye on multiple games simultaneously.
- Hopper 3 DVR: As for Dish’s Hopper 3 DVR, it allows the simultaneous recording of up to 16 different programs from any channel. It enables you to record football games that may clash and even watch exciting goals moments over and over again.
- Sports bar finder: Stuck without a television? Go to Dish’s sports bar finder to see what will be showing the football games near you, to ensure that even when you are not around your own television set you can still be able to watch that match that you have been looking forward to.
- NFL Sunday Ticket: An additional service you might want to consider included but is not part of Dish Network's standard packages is the NFL Sunday ticket which gives you access to all out-of-market Sunday regular season games for you to be able to follow the progress of your favorite team regardless of where you are.
By adhering to these tips, you should be able to acquire as much information as possible to determine the channel on which the football game can be viewed under Dish Network. You can look for the schedule in your local newspaper, set the game to tape using your TiVo, use the multi-window viewer, or go to any establishment in your area that has live coverage of the football season so you don’t miss any plays!
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