Women's Soccer: CSTV Big East Coverage
November 06, 2003 05:19 PM | General
November 6, 2003
NEW YORK – CSTV: College Sports Television, the fastest-growing independent cable network, will provide national television coverage of the Big East Men’s and Women’s Soccer Championships starting this Saturday, November 8.
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 or call their cable or satellite operator.
CSTV will televise the Big East Women’s Soccer Championship semifinals on Saturday, November 8. The network will televise the Notre Dame-Boston College semifinal at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT, followed by the Villanova-West Virginia semifinal at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. Marc Stout will call the action from Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J., while Tom Stone will provide color commentary.
On Saturday, November 15, College Sports Television will air the Big East Men’s Soccer Championship semifinals, the first at 2:30 p.m. ET/11:30 a.m. PT and the second at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT. Stout and Stone will call the action from the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Conn. Tournament quarterfinal games will be played this weekend.
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.
