SAN MARCOS, Texas – The Texas State Athletics Department has announced several coverage options for fans looking to follow the Bobcats this season.

The Bobcats are excited to broadcast more than 80 events on ESPN's new ESPN+ platform. For one low monthly price or yearly subscription Texas State fans can watch Bobcat home and road games of volleyball, football, and soccer. Simply by downloading the ESPN app in Google Play, Apple store, or on a connected TV device (i.e. Fire Stick, Apple TV) you can watch the Bobcats anywhere at any time broadcasted by the leader in sports programming.

Leading the coverage of Texas State Football will be the play-by-play voice of Brant Freeman (Twitter @Brant_Freeman), a 17-year veteran in the television and radio industry. He has also covered the Bobcats since his time as a student at Texas State. Alongside Freeman will be former standout Bobcat linebacker and five-year NFL veteran Joplo Bartu (Twitter @WhoIsJoplo.) Bartu started for the Atlanta Falcons and played with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Arizona Cardinals. Finishing out the broadcast team will be sideline reporter Brooke Shoemaker (Twitter @bnshoemaker). Shoemaker is a former contributor with the Sports2Nite show in San Antonio and is an alumnus of Texas State.

When watching Texas State Volleyball fans will hear insights from Brant Freeman and Mick Haley (Twitter: @VolleyPA). Haley previously served for 17 seasons as the head coach of the University of Southern California women's volleyball team. He has also coached the U.S. Women's National Team at the Olympics. Prior to this he served for 17 years as the head coach of the University of Texas women's volleyball team.

The department also plans to broadcast many home men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, and softball games. Because of the conference wide agreement between ESPN and the Sun Belt, most road games for the Bobcats will also be available on the ESPN+ platform.

Fans can also listen to long-time voice of the Bobcats, Bill Culhane (Twitter: @BillCulhane22) on the Texas State Radio Network presented by Bud Light. The radio network broadcasts Texas State football games on AM 1300 The Zone in the Austin/San Marcos area, on 930 AM The Talk in the greater San Antonio area, and on Texas State's campus radio station 89.9 FM, the Other Side of Radio. It also airs Texas State men's basketball games on AM 1300 The Zone and 89.9 FM. Fans not close to a radio dial can listen to the audio broadcast online at TXST.com or by downloading the TuneIn App in the Google Play or Apple store. Joining Culhane in the football booth will be Clint Shields, (Twitter @CShieldsRadio) who has previously been heard calling Bobcat women's basketball games, and sideline reporter Karina Medellin (Twitter @Karina_Marlene) who previously brought you interesting notes about the games as the sideline reporter during the 2018 football season. Medellin is the Digital Media Coordinator for the Bobcat Club.

Texas State football fans can get a behind the scenes view of the football program by visiting the Jake Spavital "Game Time" Radio Show at Chimy's on Tuesday nights hosted by Bill Culhane and Brant Freeman throughout the season. In total, the show will be live from Chimy's seven times with hour-long shows beginning at 6 p.m. The first show will air on Aug. 27. The remaining live shows will be on Sept. 3, 17, and 24, Oct. 8, Nov. 5 and 12. Download these dates to your calendar by visiting TXST.com/specialevents or going to the Texas State Bobcats Facebook events page (facebook.com/pg/TXStateBobcats/events/).

This fall get an inside view of the Bobcat Football team each week as they push for a conference championship and bowl bid by tuning into "Inside the Lines with Texas State Head Football Coach Jake Spavital" TV show. The 30-minute show airs on AT&T SportsNet Southwest - Fridays at 5:00 PM (CT) & KMYS-TV / CW 35 San Antonio - Saturdays at 10:30 AM (CT).

With exciting highlights, raw game reactions, informative game previews, and behind-the-scenes commentary from Texas State coaches, the show is your weekly dose of Bobcat Football. From the season opener, through the race for the conference championship and beyond, this will be a show for the ultimate Bobcat fan. After the show airs on television it will be available online at TxStateBobcats.com and on YouTube.

Fans looking to follow the Bobcats through other means or to enhance their listening or watching experience can interact with live Stats or follow live tweets on Twitter by searching for @txstatefootball or @texasstatevball.

For links and coverage details for upcoming events visit TXST.com/Coverage.aspx or go to the sport schedule page.

Texas State football will open the 2019 season with a nationally televised midweek game at Texas A&M beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 29.

Texas State opens the home slate against the Wyoming Cowboys at 6 p.m. on Sept. 7. In addition to Wyoming, the Bobcats will host Georgia State (Sept. 21), Nicholls (Sept. 28), ULM (Oct. 10), South Alabama (Nov. 9), and Troy (Nov. 16).

Texas State volleyball play opens at Strahan Arena at noon on Aug. 30 against Liberty.

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