Red Light Management & Warner Bros. Records Music Featured in ESPN’s College Football Coverage
Highlights:
- Fourteen total artists featured throughout the season
- Multiple songs from OAR, Switchfoot, Mute Math, Parachute, 311 and Gomez
- Red Light Management Artists Exclusively on Saturday Night Football
- Warner Bros. Records used throughout season across multiple games and networks
- ESPN.com to stream Switchfoot’s entire new release
Music from multiple top artists with Red Light Management and Warner Bros. Records will be featured on ESPN’s extensive college football coverage throughout the season across ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3.com.
New and currently released songs will be incorporated in college football games across the ESPN outlets, including multiple segments in each telecast, such as part of highlight montages, and as the networks go to and return from breaks.
Warner Bros. Records artists will be incorporated during every game telecast, while Red Light Management music will be exclusive to the Saturday Night Football Presented by Southwest Airlines series on ABC. Saturday Night Football, Saturdays at 8 p.m. ET and the only weekly prime-time college football series on broadcast television, will also include songs from Warner Bros. Records musicians.
Overall, songs from up to 14 musical acts will be used, including multiple tracks from recent Switchfoot and OAR albums.
Saturday Night Football will showcase seven Red Light Management artists exclusively. As part of the agreement, the September 17 telecast will utilize only songs from Switchfoot’s new album Vice Verses, scheduled to be released on September 27. In addition, ESPN.com will offer the first opportunity for fans to hear the entire record through a free stream on its music page on September 17. Additional artists and songs available include (the lineup could change with additional songs being added or some not being used):
Red Light Management Artist | Songs |
Switchfoot | The Original |
The War Inside | |
Blinding Light | |
Dark Horses | |
Rise Above It | |
OAR | Gotta Live |
Taking on the World Today | |
King | |
Parachute | American Secrets |
Something to Believe In | |
311 | Wild Nights |
Rock On | |
Gomez | Options |
I Will Take Your There | |
Alberta Cross | Get Up |
My Morning Jacket | Victory Dance |
In addition to select Red Light Management songs, ESPN will use select Warner Bros. Records artists and songs including (the lineup could change with additional songs being added or some not being used):
Warner Bros. Records Artist | Songs |
Mute Math | Blood Pressure |
Allies | |
One more | |
The Belle Brigade | Where Not to Look for Freedom |
Goo Goo Dolls | Last Hot Night |
New Boyz | Tough Kids |
Gary Clark Jr | Bright Lights |
Taking Back Sunday | You Got Me |
Theophilus London | I Stand Alone |
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