Springfield, Ohio - Wittenberg University athletic teams will appear on Time Warner Cable in the Dayton area over the next few months, beginning with this week's football game on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 1 p.m. between the Tigers and the Allegheny College Gators at Edwards-Maurer Field in Springfield. Time Warner Television will cover other Wittenberg sporting events as well, including a volleyball match at Wittenberg on Wednesday, Oct. 10 and two basketball games in January.

The Wittenberg-Allegheny football game will be cablecast on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 10 p.m., Monday, Oct. 1 at 9:30 p.m. and Thursday, Oct. 4 at 9:30 p.m. The volleyball match will be cablecast on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 10 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 14 at 4 p.m. and Monday, Oct. 15 at 9:30 p.m. The programs can be found on Time Warner Cable systems on channel 25 or 69 in Dayton, channel 30 in the Dayton suburbs, and channel 59 in communities further north. Subscribers are encouraged to check their local listings.

The winner of the annual Allegheny-Wittenberg showdown has gone on to win the North Coast Athletic Conference championship every year since 1990. Wittenberg, which is seeking its fifth consecutive league title in 2001, is off to a 3-1 start. Allegheny, which was picked to finish second to the Tigers in the media preseason poll, is 1-2, but its two losses came against teams ranked in the top five in the country in NCAA Division III.

Time Warner Cable owns and manages the world's most advanced, best-clustered cable television operations, with 90 percent of its 12.6 million customers in systems of 100,000 subscribers or more. It is a division of AOL Time Warner Inc. Time Warner Cable's Western Ohio Division serves more than 400,000 customers in 28 counties.