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Effective in January, the Official College Sports Network (OCSN) will be operated by College Sports Television (CSTV), the fastest growing independent cable network and first 24-hour college sports network. As a result, a wider range of collegiate athletics will receive television exposure...
...CSTV, the first 24-hour college sports network, announced the series’ first 17 games on yesterday. The remaining games—including post-season—have yet to be determined...
Both Harvard hockey teams will play at least one game on national television this season, as part of Friday Night Hockey on College Sports Television (CSTV...
...CSTV has the cash to give it a go. Bedol and co-founders Steve Greenberg (who helped start Classic Sports) and Chris Bevilacqua (who has negotiated TV deals for Nike) started pitching the concept to athletic conferences and cable operators two years ago. Last spring Bedol, Greenberg and Allen & Co., a New York City investment bank (and Greenberg's employer), put up $10 million. In a viewer survey last fall by a big cable operator naming 40 new or proposed channels, CSTV ranked...
Thus armed, CSTV has secured an additional $90 million, including investments from Constellation Ventures, (a Bear Stearns fund), football legend Joe Namath and Athlon Ventures, a fund whose participants include NBA star Kevin Garnett and Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson. Coca-Cola is in for $10 million, plus a $5 million marketing partnership. For programming, among other deals, CSTV has bought national rights to all sports other than basketball and football from Notre Dame, which has millions of fans. DirecTV, the satellite operator recently acquired (from GM's Hughes Electronics) by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., has agreed to place CSTV...