Farmingdale Games to air

Sports Radio Network (www.sportsradionet.com) and T & D Sports Video Productions (www.tdsportsvideo.com) and The Farmingdale State Athletics Department will be teaming up to provide live audio and video webcasts of the upcoming Skyline Men’s and Women’s Conference Tournament.

The coverage will kick off with women’s basketball on Tuesday, February 21 at 5:45, when Third-seeded Farmingdale State (8-3) will host sixth-seeded Manhattanville (4-8). Immediately following that game will be men’s quarterfinal action. For the second straight season, Farmingdale State University earns the top seed in the eight-team tournament. The Rams, who finished Skyline Conference play with a 12-2 record will play Kings Point (5-9).

During the regular season, Farmingdale State and eighth-seeded Kings Point (5-9) split their two games. The Mariners earned a 30-point victory in Kings Point, N.Y., on Jan. 19, snapping the Rams' 22-game conference winning streak. Farmingdale earned a 74-63 win on its home court on February 1.
Coverage would conclude with the 2006 Skyline Conference Championship on Saturday, February 25 should Farmingdale earn a spot.

The Video webcasts will offer an exciting change for Farmingdale State’s Athletics. Athletic Director Mike Harrington is excited to see the programs improve each year, “we love to expose our student-athletes, at the Division III level its tough to get your name out there, especially since we are a small school who moved up into the NCAA just five years ago.”

The program is moving in the right direction. In 2003, Farmingdale State’s women’s basketball team received a bid to the NCAA Tournament. Last season, the men’s basketball team went undefeated in the conference during the regular season. To add to that, Farmingdale State had their first NCAA Champion last year in Indoor Track, they are close to finishing up the new baseball stadium and just added women’s lacrosse as the 16th Intercollegiate sport. According to Associate AD Tom Azzara, “the department is excited to broaden the exposure of our athletics program and we hope to expand further after seeing the type of feedback we receive from the broadcast.”

“We are excited to team up with Farmingdale State,” said play-by-play announcer and Sports Radio Network’s CEO Rob Goldenberg. “The internet will give us the ability to offer the most comprehensive coverage possible with our audio and video webcasts of the games, and will also continue to develop the importance of the internet and its emergence as a legitimate form of broadcast media.”
For the past ten years, T & D Sports Video Productions, a full service video production company that services high school and college athletic programs with professional video tapes T & D's crystal clear videos have allowed coaches and athletes to analyze there own performances, providing the needed edge to excel on the court.

Sports Radio Network – a full service broadcasting outlet for amateur and professional sports –has been broadcasting live sporting events and other sports entertainment for the last four years. Using the internet as its medium, the company has reached fans in more than 15 countries, including Canada, Israel, Australia, France, Great Britain, Switzerland and Belgium with their coverage of the United States Basketball League (USBL) and the National Women’s Basketball League (NWBL).

Their partnership originally began in 2003 when they covered the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (NYCAC) women’s and men’s basketball championship games, providing live audio coverage via the internet, as well as distributing the game throughout the tri-state area for a tape-delay television presentation.

This past year T & D Sports and Sports Radio Network teamed up to produce a High School Football Game of the Week exclusively for the internet with. An audio stream of each game was webcasted live via the internet, and then a video stream was aired on a tape-delayed, pay-per-view basis later that same day.

Robert Goldenberg
917-747-0617
Sports Radio Network
sportsradionet@aol.com
www.sportsradionet.com

Date of Press Release - 02/18/06