US Field Hockey News
College Sports Television to Broadcast DI Field Hockey Championship
 NEW YORK, November 17, 2003 - CSTV:
College Sports Television, the fastest-growing independent cable network, will present the
first-ever live national telecast of the NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship Sunday,
November 23 (12:30 p.m. ET/9:30 a.m. PT), from Garber Field on the University of
Massachusetts campus in Amherst, Mass. Wake Forest takes on Michigan and Maryland battles
Duke in the semifinals, which take place Friday, November 21 in Amherst.
CSTV (www.cstv.com ), the first 24-hour college sports network, is available to approximately 15
million homes nationally on cable and satellite. The network is available on Adelphia and
Insight systems and on DirecTV. For information on CSTV availability in particular
markets, consumers can log on to www.cstv.com/getcstv.htm or call
their cable or satellite operator. Fans can also sign the CSTV online petition at www.cstv.com/petition.htm to help get college sports on tv.
CSTV's November 23 telecast is the first in a series of NCAA Championships the network
will present as part of an agreement it reached earlier this month with CBS Sports. The
agreement enables CSTV to present the first-ever live, national television coverage of the
NCAA championships in Division I women's ice hockey, Division II and III men's lacrosse,
Division I, II and III women's lacrosse, Division I field hockey and men's and women's
water polo.
College Sports Television has aired several NCAA regular season field hockey games this
fall, including Ohio State, Maryland, Michigan State and Penn State. The network's field
hockey coverage extends to its CSTV Primetime and CSTV Scoreboard live studio shows,
originating from the CSTV Fieldhouse in New York City, as well as other programs and
features on CSTV and www.CSTV.com.
"November 23 is a landmark day for this fast-growing sport," said Chris
Bevilacqua, co-founder and executive vice president, CSTV. "CSTV will bring the 'best
of the best' of NCAA field hockey to a national audience, which is consistent with our
efforts to raise the visibility of traditionally underserved sports and student-athletes
while expanding the entire scope of intercollegiate athletics."
"The NCAA Field Hockey community is extremely excited to be the first in the
series of NCAA Championships televised by CSTV," said Nance Reed, chair of the NCAA
Field Hockey Committee. "The National Championship game marks the best field hockey
has to offer of this fast paced sport at the college level. This has been an exciting year
for collegiate field hockey with the ACC and Big Ten Conferences dominating competition
nationally. However, any one of the 16 teams selected for the tournament could be in the
final game. We are looking forward to an outstanding tournament, which will cumulate with
the NCAA Championship game on November 23."
CSTV: College Sports Television televises regular season and championship event
coverage in football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer and other sports from the ACC,
Atlantic 10, Big East, Big Sky, Big Ten, Big 12, Big West and Conference USA, as well as
the Ivy League, Mountain West, Sun Belt, WAC and West Coast Conferences. CSTV also
presents NCAA postseason action in baseball, lacrosse, women's ice hockey, field hockey,
men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's water polo, gymnastics and track &
field. For more information on CSTV, log on to www.cstv.com.
College Sports Television was co-founded by President/CEO Brian Bedol, Chairman Stephen
Greenberg and Executive Vice President Chris Bevilacqua. Bedol and Greenberg co-founded
Classic Sports Network, which they sold to ESPN and which 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.
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