To celebrate today’s one-year anniversary of SEC Network, ESPN debuted a heartfelt commercial starring some of the Southeastern Conference’s youngest and most adorable fans.

Titled “Babies,” the 60-second spot captures authentic families of SEC fans and alumni with their babies in various scenarios to the sound of The Ronette’s classic tune “Be My Baby.”  Some of babies featured the vignette include a newborn dressed in her University of South Carolina gear meeting her great-grandmother (a devoted USC alum) for the very first time as well as two future University of Georgia’s fans in the hospital nursery.

The integrated initiative, created in collaboration with creative agency McKinney, celebrates long-standing traditions and fandom of the SEC and encourages fans to “Take It All In”. “Babies” is the newest spot in the network’s “Take it All In” campaign which launched last year.

SEC Network’s television launch, one-year ago today, was the most successful new channel launch in cable history. The network was available to 90 million households when the camera switched on at 6 p.m. ET on August 14, 2014. It grew to 70 million subscribers nationwide and has continued to exceed expectations across the board.

In its debut year SEC Network skyrocketed past its goal of carrying 1,000 live SEC events, and produced more than 1,500. Thanks to the new network, the number of SEC baseball games available on national television quadrupled, softball increased threefold, women’s volleyball and soccer coverage quintupled and gymnastics was produced live for the first time. The network carried 48 football games last season, and hundreds of men’s and women’s basketball games on SEC Network and SEC Network +.

To learn more about SEC Network’s first year and for future media updates visit https://espnpressroom.com

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS:

The opening sequence of SEC Network (VIDEO)

SEC Network Studio Photos

Take it All “Babies” (Video)

The SEC Network
The Southeastern Conference and ESPN have a 20-year agreement through 2034 to create and operate a multiplatform network which launched August 14, 2014. The new network and its accompanying digital platform carry SEC content 24/7 and featured more than 1,400 live events the first year. The network televises over 45 SEC football games, more than 100 men’s basketball games, 60 women’s basketball games, 75 baseball games, and events from across the SEC’s 21 sports annually. Programming includes in-depth commentary and analysis in studio shows, daily news and information, original content such as SEC Storied, spring football games, and more. The network has 70 million subscribers in the US and is also available in more than 50 countries throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa via ESPN Player, ESPN’s sports streaming service in the region.   Hundreds of additional live events from various sports are offered exclusively as SEC Network+ events via WatchESPN and SECNetwork.com through authenticated access from AT&T U-verse, Charter, Comcast, Cox, DIRECTV, DISH, Google Fiber, Suddenlink, Verizon FiOS and members of the NCTC, NRTC and NTTC.

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