College Sports Television Announce Exclusive High-Definition Agreement

[Gregg Lengling]

Source: INHD / CSTV
Sep 8, 2004, 08:07


Co-produced Weekly College Sports Coverage Kicks-Off With BYU @ Stanford Football

NEW YORK, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- INHD, cable's most widely distributed all high-definition network, has teamed up with CSTV: College Sports Television, (http://www.collegesports.com/) to broadcast numerous top collegiate sports telecasts live, in high definition, starting with the Brigham Young at Stanford college football match-up Saturday, September 11, 2004 from Palo Alto, CA (10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT). The announcement was made by Senior Vice President of Programming of iN DEMAND Networks, David Asch and Co- Founder and Executive Vice President of CSTV, Chris Bevilacqua.


The agreement provides INHD the right to air the events in high definition, while CSTV will simultaneously carry the standard definition broadcasts. The co-produced telecasts will include regular season football, basketball, ice hockey, baseball, volleyball, soccer, water polo and swimming events, as well select conference tournaments and NCAA National Championships. Under the agreement, INHD has also acquired rights for encore presentations. This is the second consecutive year INHD will produce live college sports with CSTV.


The following INHD and CSTV co-produced telecasts will be a part of the 2004-2005 season:


* 9/11 - (Football) BYU @ Stanford
* 10/8 - (Men's Ice Hockey) North Dakota @ Maine
* 11/12 - (Men's Ice Hockey) Yale @ Harvard
* 11/14 - (Soccer) Big Ten Men's Championship
* 11/19 - (Men's Basketball) 2004 Pete Newell Challenge:
* North Carolina vs. Santa Clara
* Stanford vs. San Francisco
* 11/20 - (Football) Rutgers @ Navy
* 12/5 - (Water Polo) NCAA Division I Men's Water Polo Championships


"Our relationship with CSTV helps us bring some of college's most exciting match-ups to the growing audience for high definition television," said Asch. "Presenting these matches in high definition gives college sports fans the best possible viewing experience available on television."


"High-definition telecasts enhance the intensity, energy and pageantry of college sports, making for a more compelling viewing experience for fans," said Bevilacqua. "Our partnership with iN DEMAND is consistent with CSTV's mission of using the latest technologies to connect college sports fans with college sports anytime, anywhere, anyplace. These telecasts will bring viewers closer than ever to the action."


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. CSTV and the Mountain West Conference recently announced a fully integrated multi-media partnership, beginning in Fall 2006 that will deliver more games to more people in more homes across more sports than any other Conference partnership. College Sports TV currently has agreements with the top three national distributors -- Comcast, DirecTV and Time Warner Cable, among others.


INHD and INHD2 comprise a suite of 24/7 high definition networks that features commercial-free movies, professional and college sports and general interest programming which maximize the HD television experience. INHD provides superior images and sound and more native HD programming than any other network.


INHD is owned and operated by iN DEMAND Networks. Company shareholders are Comcast iN DEMAND Holdings, Inc., Cox Communications, Inc. and Time Warner Entertainment -- Advance/Newhouse Partnership. INHD and INHD2 are available on Adelphia, Bright House, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox, and Time Warner cable systems. Further information about INHD can be found on the Internet at http://www.inhd.com/.


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