Gopher Hockey and FSN Reach Broadcast Agreement
Courtesy: University of Minnesota 05/01/2009
One of the nation’s most unparalleled college hockey television contracts will continue in an agreement between Fox Sports North and the University of Minnesota.
The regional television network and the university have reached a contract that features a minimum of 28 exclusive regular season Gopher hockey telecasts per season. In addition, the contract provides coverage of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association first round playoffs and continued half-hour pre-game and post-game shows adjacent to each broadcast.
“We’re very excited about continuing this great relationship with Fox Sports North,” said Tom Wistrcill, Minnesota’s Senior Associate Athletic Director for External Relations. “We believe our storied hockey program and the professional quality of Fox Sports North’s broadcasts make a great partnership. This is exciting news for loyal fans of Gopher hockey to be able to continue to see the vast majority of our games.”
Fox Sports North reaches nearly two million homes throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and North and South Dakota. It is also available on most satellite television packages.
“We are very proud of our continuing partnership with the University of Minnesota,” said Fox Sports North Senior Vice President and General Manager Mike Dimond. “Together, we’ve built a tradition of Gopher hockey and this new agreement allows us to continue that tradition on our network for years to come.”
Monday, May 04, 2009
Wooger and the Rug extended.
Good news for Sioux fans our favorite dynamic duo from Rodentville central Doug Woog and Frank "the Rug" Mazzocco will be back in the announcers booth for Minnesota Golden Gopher hockey team again this season. Recently and Fox Sports Net and the University of Minnesota signed another contract for FSN to cover Gopher hockey. I guess now we better study up on our Woogerism when the Fighting Sioux play the Gophers.
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the goofs could do much worse than the dougie and francis. yeah, they're huge homers, but after hear the poster child of homers on the fsn that does the wisco games, the minnesota homers didn't seem too bad.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. I live in Elk River, MN and subscribe to a sports pack on Direct TV every winter, mostly to watch college hockey. I get a lot of Denver, Minnesota, Michigan/Michigan State, BU/BC/Northeastern, and a few others on all my FSN regional network channels. Wisconsin used to televise a pile of their men's games on FSN Wisconsin, but there's less and less of them every season now.
ReplyDeleteA couple years ago the Gophers GAVE their radio rights to WCCO for FREE! Actually, while they were defending national champs. I wonder if that is still the case. Absolutely crazy when you think about the exploitation of every possible source of income the U engages in.
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