CBSC Broadcast of Saturday's Doubleheader Available Online
April 24, 2009 | Baseball
April 24, 2009
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East Carolina University and CBS College Sports Network have announced that both games in Saturday's baseball doubleheader (4 p.m. and 8 p.m. ET) between two of the elite teams in Conference USA, the 24th-ranked Pirates (30-12, 10-5 C-USA) and Southern Miss (25-15, 9-6), will be available live and on-demand around the world via Internet video streaming as part of special online events. ECU and the Golden Eagles enter the weekend sitting second and third, respectively - behind only No. 2 Rice - in the league standings.
Current annual subscribers to Pirates All-Access will receive both broadcasts for FREE as part of their annual package. Those subscribers can just log in with their Pirates All-Access account and begin watching the games. All others can access the live video streams for a payment of $7.95 per game. Please note that monthly subscribers will have to purchase the pay-per-views.
The games also will be broadcast nationally on CBS College Sports Network, which is channel 255 on Suddenlink and channel 93 on NTC Communications in the Greenville area, as well as channel 613 on DirecTV and channel 152 on Dish Network/Echostar. For information on the availability of CBS College Sports in your area, click here.
The online video streams of the broadcasts also will be free for current annual subscribers to Southern Miss All-Access and to current annual subscribers to CBS College Sports XXL - which gives fans additional access to content from schools in the CBS Interactive network across a variety of sports. For more information about CBSC XXL, click here.
The broadcast will be just one of the hundreds of events to be offered on a pay-per-view basis by CBS College Sports Network during the 2008-09 school year. Those include football, men's and women's basketball, soccer, volleyball, baseball and softball games. For a listing of upcoming pay-per-views, visit www.cbssports.com/ppvonline. To see a list of upcoming pay-per-view events involving Conference USA teams, check out the C-USA Network page.
Annual subscriptions to Pirates All-Access are $79.95 for a 12-month period. Fans who wish to purchase an Annual subscription to Pirates All-Access can do so by clicking here. Annual subscribers receive all CBS College Sports pay-per-view broadcasts for free as part of their subscription. Every game in the upcoming Conference USA Baseball Championship will be a pay-per-view, meaning that Pirates All-Access annual subscribers will be able to watch all ECU games in that tournament for free.
Other Content In Pirates All-Access Annual Subscription:
- Baseball video coverage of home games and C-USA road games (subject to TV rights agreements)
- Baseball audio coverage of road games
- Live video of the television feed of all East Carolina games (in any sport) shown on CBS College Sports Network
- Football video coverage of home games and selected road games (subject to TV rights agreements)
- Football audio coverage of all games
- Men's and women's basketball video coverage of home games and C-USA road games (subject to TV rights agreements)
- Men's basketball audio coverage of road games
- Women's basketball audio coverage of selected games
- Audio coverage of weekly Skip Holtz Show
- Audio coverage of post-game and post-practice interviews with Skip Holtz
- Audio coverage of weekly Mack McCarthy Show
- Volleyball and women's soccer video coverage of home matches and selected road matches
- Softball video coverage of selected games
- Various CBS College Sports features and highlights of East Carolina athletics
- Selected other features, press conferences and game coverage
Note: Broadcast schedule is tentative and subject to change.
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About CBS College Sports Network
CBS College Sports Network, is the leading digital and cable programming company dedicated to college sports. Connecting more fans to more college sports than any other company, its many platforms for programming distribution include CBS College Sports Network, televising regular-season and championship events for 35 men's and women's college sports; CBSSports.com/CBSCollegeSports and its network of nearly 250 official athletic sites; CBS College Sports All-Access, broadband services providing live audio and video of more than 10,000 events annually; as well as satellite television and radio, in-flight entertainment, wireless networks and more. Further information is available at CBSSports.com/CBSCollegeSports.
