12/13/2009 5:01:28 PM
MOREHEAD, Ky. – Morehead State athletics has entered into an agreement with Wazoo Sports Television to broadcast 13 Eagle home athletic events during the 2009-10 season MSU Athletic Director Brian Hutchinson announced Tuesday.
“This agreement allows us to showcase our programs and our student-athletes across the Commonwealth of Kentucky,” Hutchinson said. “Our alumni, fans and family of our student-athletes will have opportunities to watch Eagle athletics on television. This is a major part of our efforts to increase our visibility, both statewide and regionally.”
The schedule includes 10 basketball games, one football game, and baseball and softball games. The basketball lineup has several marquee matchups, from Kentucky and OVC Rival Eastern Kentucky for the women’s basketball team, to EKU and OVC co-preseason favorite Murray State for the men’s basketball teams. The November portion of the agreement was completed as a successful test of the partnership and included the first television football game from Jayne Stadium in recent years.
“We are thrilled about our relationship with Morehead State University and even more excited about the unprecedented exposure we can help bring to the athletics department as a whole and to the student athletes specifically ,” says Doc Carpenter, President of Wazoo Sports, Inc. “It is an exciting relationship and we are looking forward to seeing how it develops and matures. We are very pleased to be working with Morehead State.”
Wazoo Sports, Inc. is a Regional Sports Network that delivers original Kentucky sports programming twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, including LIVE broadcasts of high school, NCAA, NAIA and youth sports on television and over the Internet. Wazoo Sports has aired over 325 live games online since December 2007 and has broadcast 37 games on television including NBC, ABC and FOX affiliates during the 2008-2009 basketball season.
The schedule includes:
Nov. 14 Football vs. San Diego 1: 00pm
Nov. 17 Women’s Basketball vs. Kentucky 7:00 pm
Nov. 29 Men’s Basketball vs. Kent State 7:00 pm
Dec. 13 Women’s Basketball vs. Detroit 2:00 pm
Jan. 4 Women’s Basketball vs. Tennessee State 5:00 pm
Jan. 16 Women’s Basketball vs. Eastern Illinois 2:00 pm
Jan. 19 Men’s Basketball vs. SIU-Edwardsville 7:00 pm
Feb. 6 Men’s Basketball vs. Tennessee Tech 8:00 pm
Feb. 17 Men’s Basketball vs. Eastern Kentucky 7:00 pm
Feb. 20 Women’s Basketball vs. Eastern Kentucky TBD
Feb. 25 Men’s Basketball vs. Murray State 8:00 pm
April 3 Softball vs. Jacksonville State
April 18 Baseball vs. Eastern Kentucky 1:00 pm
OVER THE AIR: WHAS 11 Digital Channel 11.3; Lex 18 Digital Channel 18.2
CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEMS: Insight Louisville, Channel 524; Insight Lexington, Channel 524; Intermountain Cable, Channel 256; Access Cable, Channel 65; Access Cable, Channel 58 (Cumberland, Lynch, Benham); Bracken Cablevision, Channel 16.2 – (Basic Tier); Bracken Cablevision, Channel 111 – (Digital Boxes, Mason & Bracken Co.); Bracken Cablevision, Channel 16.2 – (Basic Tier, Robertson Co.); Frankfort Plant Board, Channel 147; TV Service & United Cable, Channel 48 – (Knott, Perry, Letcher, Breathitt & Wolfe); House Enterprise Inc, Channel 14 – (Manchester, KY); Harlan Community Cable, Channel 18.12, Channel 65