Farmingdale Games to air

Sports Radio Network (WSRN) will be presenting live and exclusive audio game coverage of the 2003-04 New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (NYCAC) women's and men's basketball championships, emanating from the Pratt Recreation Center on the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University in Brookville, N.Y.

The internet-based station will webcast the conference tournament, beginning with semi-final action on March 6th and the championship games on March 7th. In total Sports Radio Network will webcast six games. The semi-finals will be played Saturday, March 6th at 12 pm, 2:30 pm, 5pm and 7:30 pm. The championship games will be played on Sunday, March 7th at 1:00 pm and 3:30 pm. Each game will be preceded by a 15-minute pre-game show.

The webcasts will be presented live and exclusively on the internet, and can be accessed from Sports Radio Network’s official website at http://www.sportsradionet.com. Archived games will also be available on demand following the completion of each game.

Last year Sports Radio Network was the exclusive home to the NYCAC Championships and the is a follow-up to an earlier agreement which introduced Sports Radio Network (http://www.sportsradionet.com) as the live and exclusive internet broadcast partner of the NYCAC and the home to the 2003 NYCAC tournament.

“The NYCAC is delighted to have Sports Radio Network back to webcast the NYCAC basketball championships,” said NYCAC Commissioner Carmine Calzonetti. “We believe that the exposure for the member institutions and the student-athletes will give them their just due.”

“We are enthusiastic about the prospects of bring the NYCAC Championships back to the web waves.” said play-by-play announcer and Sports Radio Network’s CEO Rob Goldenberg. “The mounting interest shown by the institutions and the encouraging feedback we have received from listeners is proof positive that sports webcasting has a true niche in this marketplace.”

Sports Radio Network unofficially began its association with the NYCAC Conference at the 2002 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Championship - Northeast Regional. Last year the station was the official home for the NYCAC 2002-03 regular season and he 2003 New York Collegiate Athletic Conference women's and men's basketball conference tournament’s.

Sports Radio Network partnered with T & D Sports Video Productions merging the technology of the internet with that of television presenting live audio coverage via the internet, as well as distributing the game throughout the tri-state area for a tape-delayed television presentation.

WSRN burst on to the scene in the spring of 2001with live and exclusive coverage of the United States Basketball League’s (USBL) Long Island Surf franchise. Following its presentation of 13 regular season games, the station carried the summer’s USBL post-season tournament.
Once again in 2002, WSRN was the exclusive home to the USBL Post-Season Festival, with fans in more than 15 countries; including Canada, Israel, Australia, France, Great Britain, Switzerland and Belgium listening to the webcasts. Not only did Sports Radio Network provide audio coverage of the post-season festival via the internet, and were used by Pegasys Video of Enid, Oklahoma for their highly-heralded television broadcasts. Recently clips of the tournament were aired on HBO’s Real Sports.

Sports Radio Network continued to break new ground at the start of 2002, as the web-based station partnered with the National Women’s Basketball League (NWBL) by becoming the league’s official broadcast carrier. With its exclusive live presentation of the 2002 league draft and the spring’s NWBL Pro Cup Tournament, Sports Radio Network reached a nationwide audience of fans, validating the rapidly growing appeal of women's professional sports.

This past season, Sports Radio Network partnered with T & D Sports Video Productions to present The High School Football Game of the Week. A six-game television package, which was aired on Cablevision of Long Island on a tape-delay basis, and webcasted live via the internet (audio only) was produced.

In February, Sports Radio Network was once again home to the 2004 NWBL All-Star Game. Sports Radio Network, will also webcast the 2004 playoffs in March.

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

Date of Press Release - 03/04/04