ACC Network’s weekday afternoon show ACC PM will be live from iconic Fenway Park on Friday, May 19 ahead of No. 22 Boston College’s matchup against Notre Dame in the Eagles annual ALS Awareness game.
Hosts Mark Packer and Taylor Tannebaum will be joined by college baseball analyst Danny Graves for the three-hour show from 4-7 p.m. ET. ACCN will televise the Eagles-Fighting Irish game with first pitch scheduled for 7 p.m. Mike Monaco, Mike Rooney will have the call from the booth with Dani Wexelman reporting.
ACCN will have unparalleled access while in Beantown, including Boston College head coach Mike Gambino mic’d up pregame as well as interviews with both teams’ student-athletes and more.
The annual game has been played in honor of former BC baseball captain Pete Frates ’07 since his ALS diagnosis in 2012. This year marks its fourth time being played at Fenway Park and 11th overall. Frates passed away in 2019 at the age of 34.
The Eagles (32-16) and the Fighting Irish (29-19) are tied in the ACC’s Atlantic Division standings at 14-13 in conference play and have both clinched a spot in the upcoming ACC Baseball Championship as regular-season play wraps up this week.
About ACC Network
Owned and operated by ESPN in partnership with the Atlantic Coast Conference, ACC Network (ACCN) and its digital platform ACCNX is a 24/7 national network dedicated to ACC sports that launched on August 22, 2019. ACCN televises more than 500 regular-season and tournament games from across the conference’s 27 sponsored sports plus a complement of news and information shows and original programming. Together, ACCN and its digital platform, ACCNX, combine to feature more than 1,500 ACC events each year. ESPN has been televising ACC content since 1979 and has exclusive rights to every conference-controlled game across all sports and championships.
Carriage agreements are in place with the following video providers: Comcast’s Xfinity, Cox, DIRECTV, DIRECTV STREAM, DISH Network, Frontier, fuboTV, Hulu+ Live TV, Mediacom, Optimum, Sling TV, Spectrum TV, Suddenlink, Verizon Fios, YouTube TV, members of the NCTC, NRTC and Vivicast, among others. All ACCN games will also be available on the ESPN App to authenticated subscribers.
