ST. LOUIS -- A Missouri Valley Football Conference team will be featured on national or regional distribution at least 18 times this fall, including four contests that are part of the Missouri Valley Football-produced television package.

North Dakota State is on television six times this fall including the season opener at Kansas in Lawrence at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 4 on Fox Colllege Sports Central. NDSU director of athletic broadcasting/sales Jeremy Jorgenson said the final TV schedule will be announced in early August.

For the 12th-straight season, the Missouri Valley Football Conference is coordinating an in-house television package. The games will be produced for syndication on over-the-air and cable television stations throughout the Midwest. Each of the four conference-produced games will air live or taped on FS Midwest and Fox College Sports (FCS), which has a national distribution of 56 million homes.

The league's production company is Kansas City-based Niles Media Group.  Niles Media Group coordinates all aspects of production – compliance with Fox Sports Midwest and Comcast SportsNet Chicago on-air guidelines, commercial reels, in-telecast graphics, satellite transmission and uplink, etc. – for each telecast.  Niles Media Group also handles production of public service announcements, commercial spots and video promotional items.  The league's 2010 package, plus other national and regional telecasts, is below (additional clearances may be added at a later date):

Date Game (Network) -- Air Time

Sat., Sept. 4

Youngstown State at Penn State, 11:00 a.m. CT (Big Ten Network)

North Dakota State at Kansas, 6 p.m. CT (FCS Central)

Sat., Sept. 11

Illinois State at Northwestern, 11 a.m. CT (Big Ten Network)

Western Illinois at Purdue, 11 a.m. CT (Big Ten Network)

Indiana State at Cincinnati, 11:05 a.m. CT (FS Ohio)

Southern Illinois at Illinois, 6:30 p.m. CT (Big Ten Network)

*North Dakota State at UNI, 6:37 p.m. CT (KWWL)

Sat., Sept. 25

*Missouri State at Illinois State, 6 p.m. CT (MVFC TV)

South Dakota at North Dakota State, 6 p.m. CT (North Dakota NBC)

Sat., Oct. 9

*UNI at Southern Illinois (Homecoming), 2 p.m. CT (MVFC TV)

*Illinois State at Indiana State (Homecoming), 2:05 p.m. CT (WTWO)

Sat., Oct. 16

*Youngstown State at Western Illinois (Family Weekend), 6 p.m. CT (MVFC TV)

Sat., Oct. 23

*Youngstown State at South Dakota State, 2 p.m. CT (Midcontinent Cable)

*Indiana State at North Dakota State, 3 p.m. CT (North Dakota NBC)

*Illinois State at UNI (Homecoming), 4:05 p.m. CT (KWWL)

Sat., Oct. 30

*South Dakota State at Indiana State (Family Day), 2:05 p.m. CT (WTWO)

Sat., Nov. 6

*Southern Illinois at North Dakota State, 3 p.m. CT (North Dakota NBC)

Sat., Nov. 13

*South Dakota State at North Dakota State (Dakota Marker), 3 p.m. CT (MVFC TV)

*denotes MVFC games

Includes only the conference-produced package and other games targeted for national or significant regional distribution; does not include institutionally produced games targeted for tape-delay.