🇮🇹 Serie B: TV channel, kick-off times and live streaming in the US

Serie B has a reputation that fits in one sentence: it is the hardest second division in Europe to get out of. Twenty clubs, thirty-eight rounds from August to May, and a table so tight that ten teams can still be chasing promotion with three matches left. Two go up directly; the third place is decided by play-offs between the sides finishing third to eighth, a tournament the best-placed team loses more often than not. You find clubs with heavy pasts here - Sampdoria, Palermo, Bari and Genoa have all passed through - discovering that a crest does not win promotion. Midweek rounds are added to the calendar, and the league is so dense that three points sometimes separate sixth place from fourteenth.