Network Signs Multi-year Partnership to Broadcast Hockey East Games

 CBS College Sports Network returns to the ice for the Network's eighth year of college hockey programming, which includes a schedule of 24 games to be broadcast in High Definition.   Hockey East games return to the Network this season, as CBS College Sports Network and Hockey East have signed a multi-year programming partnership.  The schedule also features regular season and post-season CCHA Hockey and ECAC Hockey action, as well as Atlantic Hockey contests. 

The puck drops on Friday, October 8 (7:30 PM, ET) with *No. 8-ranked New Hampshire taking on No. 3-ranked Miami (Ohio).  In all, the Network will broadcast five Miami (Ohio) games, as well as feature ten of the top 15 teams in the country.  Top match-ups include: North Dakota at Maine (10/22), Yale at Cornell (11/19), a home and home series between Boston College at Boston University (12/3, 12/4) and Michigan at Miami (2/4), among others.  To view the complete schedule, go to:
http://www.cbscollegesports.com/schedule/hockey.php

Veteran analyst Dave Starman returns to the Network for his eighth year calling games.  Starman teams with play-by-play announcers Eric Frede and Matt Shepard.

CBS College Sports Network annually covers 25 men's and women's sports, while providing coverage of over 250 live events each season, in addition to a variety of studio shows and original programming.   CBS College Sports Network is available across the country through cable and video providers and via satellite on DIRECTV Channel 613 and Dish Network Channel 152. For more information, go to http://www.cbscollegesports.com/getcbscollegesports/.

*USA Today Poll as of 9/27/10