LINCOLN — Nebraska announced Friday that it will start another season under the Memorial Stadium lights and that each of its first two football games will be pay-per-view telecasts.
NU has set a 6 p.m. kickoff for its Sept. 4 home game with Western Kentucky. It will be the fifth time in the past six seasons that the Huskers’ opener is a night game.
On Sept. 11, the Nebraska-Idaho game will be played at 11:30 a.m.
Nebraska possibly could have just one of its four nonconference games carried by the Big 12 and its television partners for the second straight year. The Huskers had three pay-per-view telecasts last September.
According to Marc Boehm, NU’s executive associate athletic director, pay-per-view telecasts generally net the university between $300,000 and $500,000, although revenues vary from game to game.
Pay-per-view contests will be available in high-definition for the first time. The games will be produced by Fox Sports Net and available on participating cable systems in Nebraska as well as nationally.
The price for the pay-per-view telecasts will be $39.95 — up from $29.95 in recent seasons — and full ordering details will be available in coming weeks.
NU is waiting on a TV assignment for its Sept. 25 home game with South Dakota State, which also could be shown on a pay-per-view basis if not selected by the Big 12. That game and several other choices will be made six to 12 days in advance of kickoff.
Nebraska’s only nonconference contest with a network or cable assignment is the Sept. 18 game at Washington. That game will kick off at 2:30 p.m. CDT and be televised by ABC.
Other previous selections for NU are its Big 12 opener at Kansas State on Thursday, Oct. 7 (6:30 p.m., ESPN), and its regular-season finale against Colorado on Friday, Nov. 26 (2:30 p.m., ABC).
Nebraska also announced Friday that its annual fan day will be Aug. 7, also the first day of practice for the Huskers. Fans will have from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. on the Memorial Stadium turf to meet with NU players and coaches and get autographs.
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