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DENVER – Mountain West Conference football and basketball games will move from ESPN to College Sports Television in the fall of 2006.
The seven-year, $82-million deal announced Thursday includes coverage on television, radio, satellite radio, video-on-demand and the Internet.
The Mountain West is the first Division I-A football and men’s basketball league to sign with College Sports Television, which went on the air in 2003. Mountain West games have been on ESPN since the league began play in 1999.
“This partnership will provide the Mountain West Conference more exposure over a variety of mediums than any other conference,” MWC Commissioner Craig Thompson said.
The contract includes coverage of 17 other MWC men’s and women’s sports.
College Sports Television, which also runs CollegeSports.com, has agreements with Comcast, DirecTV and Time Warner Cable.
?CSTV has become the on-air and online home for college sports and college sports fans coast-to-coast,? Brian Bedol, President and CEO of CSTV said in a news release. ?In just five years, the MWC has come to represent the best of what college sports is all about. Across all of our media platforms, we will offer MWC sports fans more games, from more sports than ever before.?
?This is an ideal college sports match,? Thompson said. ?Day-to-day, MWC fans will relish the additional exposures provided to all our championship sports.?
BYU Men?s Volleyball
Junior libero Brian Rowley was awarded for his academic achievements last week, receiving the Association of State Dam Safety Officials safety scholarship.
A civil engineer at BYU, Rowley was honored for his work as a student researcher at the BYU Environmental Modeling Research Laboratory and help in developing new watershed modeling software. Rowley also traveled to the University of Chile to train professors there on the software.
Rowley is also a civil engineering department scholar student and has been named an Edwin S. Hinckey scholar this year. Rowley is a BYU Scholar Athlete Award winner as well.
