Heart of America Conference Signs TV Deal.

Heart of America Athletic Conference commissioner Lori Thomas has signed an historic agreement with the Niles Media Group to televise football games, including two Culver-Stockton Wildcat games, for the 2015 season.

Niles Media will produce a 13-game schedule that will be carried live in the Kansas City area on KSMO-TV as well as on ESPN3 with a consistent kickoff time of 11:00 a.m. central time. All 12 teams in the conference will make at least one appearance on the schedule, while 11 of the 12 teams will have the opportunity to show off its respective campuses with a home contest.

The Culver-Stockton College football program is slated to be featured in two games of the 13-game slate with one of those games being a home game. The Wildcats will appear in back-to-back weeks beginning with a game against four-time defending conference champion Missouri Valley College in Canton on October 3. The following week, Saturday, October 10, the Wildcats will be featured in their game at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas.

Founded in 1971, the Heart of America Athletic Conference currently has 12 member schools from Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, and will expand to 14 teams by the start of the 2016-17 academic year and all 12 current schools are members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.

2015 Television Schedule

Aug. 29 – Baker at Grand View, 11:00 a.m.

Sept. 5 – Graceland at Missouri Valley, 11:00 a.m.

Sept. 5 – Grand View at Central Methodist, 2:30 p.m.

Sept. 12 – Missouri Valley at Benedictine, 11:00 a.m.

Sept. 19 – Benedictine at MidAmerica Nazarene, 11:00 a.m.

Sept. 26 – Central Methodist at Graceland, 11:00 a.m.

Oct. 3 – Missouri Valley at Culver-Stockton, 11:00 a.m.

Oct. 10 – Culver-Stockton at Benedictine, 11:00 a.m.

Oct. 17 – William Penn at Peru State, 11:00 a.m.

Oct. 24 – MidAmerica Nazarene at Baker, 11:00 a.m.

Oct. 31 – Benedictine at William Penn, 11:00 a.m.