While high school football is normally reserved for Friday across the WPIAL, a quartet of Beaver Valley programs have the opportunity to be regionally televised with the announcement of WPIAL Insider Thursday Night Primetime on SportsNet Pittsburgh, marking the return of high school football on Thursday nights. Starting in Week 2 on Sept. 3, Moon Area will open up the Thursday primetime slate as it travels to take on Bethel Park. Three weeks later on Sept. 24, the reigning WPIAL 4A champion Aliquippa will travel to take on New Castle in a non-conference matchup that is a rematch of last year’s 4A semifinals. Week 8 caps off the Beaver Valley slate of games on Thursday nights, with Ellwood City facing off against Ambridge in a Western Hills Conference showdown on Oct. 15.
Dig Deeper: Comprehensive coverage for the 2026 high school football season Required Reading: Five intriguing Beaver Valley high school football teams to watch Required Reading: Beaver County Times' 2026 top 50 football players in the Beaver Valley Each week’s coverage will kick off with a pregame show at 6 p.m., featuring Matt Farago, the “WPIAL Insider” Karlo Zovko, along with Pittsburgh Steeler and Chartiers Valley alum Christian Kuntz and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Brad Everett. Each game will then kick off following the pregame show at 7 p.m., featuring the broadcast crew of Jack Ridenour, Johnny Petrishen and sideline reporting from Zovko. The Thursday night games will run throughout the end of the regular season, featuring eight games from Class 1A to 6A across five counties in Western Pennsylvania. Here is a look at the full slate of games. All games will either be televised on SportsNet Pittsburgh or SportsNet Pittsburgh+. Bold denotes Beaver Valley teams Week 2 Moon Area at Bethel Park - SportsNet Pittsburgh Week 3 South Park at Elizabeth Forward - SportsNet Pittsburgh+ Week 4 Propel at McKeesport - SportsNet Pittsburgh Week 5 Aliquippa at New Castle - SportsNet Pittsburgh Week 7 Uniontown at Ringgold - SportsNet Pittsburgh Week 8 Ellwood City at Ambridge - SportsNet Pittsburgh Week 9 Fort Cherry at Jeannette - SportsNet Pittsburgh+ Week 10 Hempfield at Central Catholic - SportsNet Pittsburgh+ Ethan Morrison is the sports reporter for the Beaver County Times. Contact him at emorrison@usatodayco.com and follow him at EthanMorrison26 on X. This article originally appeared on Beaver County Times: Four Beaver Valley football teams to be featured in WPIAL Thursday Night Primetime