NCAA Field Hockey Selection Show To Be Aired On CSTV
11/8/2004 12:00:00 AM | Field Hockey
Nov. 8, 2004
New York, NY - CSTV TO EXCLUSIVELY PRESENT THE FIRST OFFICIAL NCAA FIELD HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP SELECTION SHOW LIVE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 CollegeSports.com To Stream Selection Announcement Live; CSTV To Televise NCAA Field Hockey Championship Live November 21
College Sports Television (www.collegesports.com), which televises more women's sports than any other network, will exclusively present the first-ever NCAA Field Hockey Championship Selection Show Tuesday, November 9, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT live from the CSTV Fieldhouse in New York. The CSTV selection show will also be streamed live online:
College Sports TV's live selection show, hosted by Adam Zucker, will feature the official announcement of the 16-team NCAA Field Hockey Championship field. Zucker and special guests to the show will analyze the brackets, preview first-round games and call out the players, teams and prospective games to watch. The NCAA Field Hockey Championships are scheduled for Friday-Sunday, November 19-21, at Kentner Stadium on the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.
College Sports TV will televise the Championship Game live Sunday, November 21 (12:30 p.m. ET/9:30 a.m. PT), with Beth Mowins calling the action, Siri Lindley handling color commentary and Jenny Cavnar providing sideline analysis.
Wake Forest, which captured its second straight NCAA Field Hockey Championship in 2003 with a 3-1 victory over Duke, is currently ranked #1 according to the coaches poll, followed in descending order by fellow ACC powers North Carolina, Duke and Maryland. Michigan State completes the Top 5.
College Sports TV, which televises more women's sports than any other network, has aired more than 2,000 hours of women's sports programming since launching in April 2003. The network presents NCAA Championships in field hockey, Division I, II and III women's lacrosse and women's water polo, as well as the NCAA Women's Frozen Four Division I Hockey Championships. It also televises championship action from conferences such as the Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Mountain West, Conference USA, Conference USA, Big West, West Coast Conference, Ohio Valley, Horizon League, the Big South and America East, and regular season action from every conference.
In addition, CSTV covers and promotes women's sports within its studio and original programming, as well as on its CollegeSports.com Web site and network of official athletic sites of colleges, conferences and athletic associations. CSTV is a multi-media company that consists of the first-ever 24-hour college sports television network, College Sports TV; the leading college sports online network, CollegeSports.com; and the first ever 24-hour college sports radio network, SIRIUS College Sports Radio. Through its numerous platforms, CSTV provides more live college sports games, events, news, information, analysis and broadband content, and reaches more college sports fans, than any other company.
College Sports TV, voted the #1 emerging cable network in the 2003 Beta research study, televises regular season and championship event coverage from over 35 men's and women's sports across every major collegiate athletic conference as well as many select NCAA Championships. College Sports TV currently has agreements with the top three national distributors - Comcast, DirecTV and Time Warner Cable, among others.
CollegeSports.com, the most-trafficked college sports Web site, and its network of nearly 160 official athletic sites are the number one online source for college sports broadband content, news, information, scores and analysis. SIRIUS College Sports Radio will broadcast a comprehensive package of college football and basketball games from teams in the Big 10, Big 12, Big East, Pac 10, and SEC conferences, as well as from Notre Dame.
CSTV was co-founded by President and CEO Brian Bedol, Chairman Steve Greenberg and Executive Vice President Chris Bevilacqua. Bedol and Greenberg co-founded Classic Sports Network, which they sold to ESPN. It is now ESPN Classic. Bevilacqua is a former senior executive with Nike Inc., where he headed the company's successful foray into the college market.