The Big Ten Network (BTN) is an American regional sports network dedicated to the Big Ten Conference, jointly operated by the conference itself and Fox Sports, and is the first internationally distributed network dedicated to covering a single college conference. The network's lineup includes telecasts of Big Ten events, archived events involving Big Ten schools, studio shows, coach's shows, documentaries, and other programming related to the conference.
The network currently reaches approximately 40 million households nationwide and is available up to an estimated 73 million households in the United States and Canada. It is headquartered in the former Montgomery Ward & Co. catalog building at 600 W. Chicago Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.
The network currently has agreements with more than 300 providers. It is carried nationally on DirecTV and Dish Network; and regionally on AT&T U-Verse, Verizon FiOS, Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications, Insight Communications, Mediacom Communications, Time Warner Cable, Cable One, Cablevision and several others. In Canada, it is available on Shaw Direct, Shaw Cable, Rogers Cable, and East Link. The network is available on cable in 19 of the 20 largest U.S. media markets.
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