University of Southern Mississippi Athletics
CBSC Broadcast of Saturday's Doubleheader Available Online
4/24/2009 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 24, 2009
The University of Southern Mississippi and CBS College Sports Network have announced that both games in Saturday's baseball doubleheader (3 p.m. and 7 p.m. CT) in Greenville, N.C., between two of the elite teams in Conference USA, the Golden Eagles (25-15, 9-6 C-USA) and No. 24 East Carolina (30-12, 10-5), will be available live and on-demand around the world via Internet video streaming as part of special online events. ECU and Southern Miss enter the weekend sitting second and third, respectively - behind only No. 2 Rice - in the league standings.
Current annual subscribers to Southern Miss All-Access will receive both broadcasts for FREE as part of their annual package. Those subscribers can just log in with their Southern Miss All-Access account and begin watching the games. All others can access the live video streams for a payment of $7.95 per game. Please note that monthly subscribers will have to purchase the pay-per-views. As always, monthly and annual subscribers will have access to live audio coverage of the games.
The game also will be broadcast nationally on CBS College Sports Network, which is channel 735 on Comcast cable in the Hattiesburg area, as well as channel 613 on DirecTV and channel 152 on Dish Network/Echostar. For information on the availability of CBS College Sports in your area, click here.
The online video streams of the broadcasts also will be free for current annual subscribers to Pirates All-Access (ECU's All-Access product) and to current annual subscribers to CBS College Sports XXL - which gives fans additional access to content from schools in the CBS Interactive network across a variety of sports. For more information about CBSC XXL, click here.
The broadcasts are just two of the hundreds of events to be offered on a pay-per-view basis by CBS College Sports Network during the 2008-09 school year. Those include football, men's and women's basketball, soccer, volleyball, baseball and softball games. For a listing of upcoming pay-per-views, visit www.cbssports.com/ppvonline. To see a list of upcoming pay-per-view events involving Conference USA teams, check out the C-USA Network page.
Annual subscriptions to Southern Miss All-Access are $79.95 for a 12-month period. Fans who wish to purchase an Annual subscription to Southern Miss All-Access can do so by clicking here. Annual subscribers receive all CBS College Sports pay-per-view broadcasts for free as part of their subscription. Every game in the upcoming Conference USA Baseball Championship will be a pay-per-view, meaning that Southern Miss All-Access annual subscribers will be able to watch all Southern Miss games in that tournament for free.
Other Content In Southern Miss All-Access Annual Subscription:
- Baseball video coverage of most home games and select road games, plus audio coverage of all other games
- Football video coverage of home games and C-USA road games (subject to TV rights agreements)
- Football audio coverage of all games
- Men's and women's basketball video coverage of home games and C-USA road games (subject to TV rights agreements)
- Men's and women's basketball audio coverage of away games
- Live video of the television feed of all Southern Miss games (in any sport) shown on CBS College Sports Network
- Audio coverage of the football, men's basketball and women's basketball coaches' shows
- Audio plays of the game for football and men's basketball
- Football video coverage of the weekly coaches' show
- Softball video coverage of selected games
- Volleyball and women's soccer video coverage of home matches and selected road matches
- Various CBS College sports features and highlights of Southern Miss athletics
- Selected other features, press conferences and game coverage
Note: Broadcast schedule is tentative and subject to change.
About CBS College Sports Network
CBS College Sports Network, is the leading digital and cable programming company dedicated to college sports. Connecting more fans to more college sports than any other company, its many platforms for programming distribution include CBS College Sports Network, televising regular-season and championship events for 35 men's and women's college sports; CBSSports.com/CBSCollegeSports and its network of nearly 250 official athletic sites; CBS College Sports All-Access, broadband services providing live audio and video of more than 10,000 events annually; as well as satellite television and radio, in-flight entertainment, wireless networks and more. Further information is available at CBSSports.com/CBSCollegeSports.
