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Lehigh Football on TV
Distinctive and the model for which all other Division I Football Championship Subdivision television packages strive, Lehigh Athletics enters its 22nd season of local, regional, and national football coverage on commercial television. Lehigh broadcasts are the most-watched in the Patriot League (source: Nielsen). Nationally, Lehigh football can be seen on both DirecTV and DISH Network, as well as on Fox College Sports (available in over 56 million homes via digital cable systems nationwide). Regionally on FSN Pittsburgh, fans in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Scranton and parts of Maryland, West Virginia, and Ohio can follow Lehigh football, while the WFMZ-TV signal can be seen in the Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia, Reading, and Western New Jersey. Locally, Lehigh football home games can be seen in the Lehigh Valley on Service Electric Cable’s 2 Sports. Service Electric is the area’s largest cable provider.
Nationally known and respected announcing teams plus high-quality production are also distinctions of Lehigh football telecasts. Steve Degler (Lehigh Valley IronPigs baseball telecasts), former Lehigh quarterback and Penske Hall of Fame member Marty Horn ’86 and former Lehigh linebacker Mike Yadush '93 call the action on a national and regional level. Locally, Mike Zambelli (Service Electric Sports Director) joins Yadush ‘93 to handle the announcing duties.
The Lehigh Sports Magazine Television Show
The Lehigh Sports Magazine airs nationally on Fox College Sports Atlantic each Thursday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. The show can be seen regionally and locally on Mondays on WFMZ-TV at 8:30 p.m. Locally, Service Electric 2 Sports airs the LSM every Tuesday afternoon at 5:30 p.m. This half-hour show features Lehigh head coaches, student-athlete guests, highlights, and much more. WFMZ-TV sports anchor Jim Vaughn hosts the weekly broadcast. The show can also be seen on the Lehigh web site each Monday at 8:30 p.m. and is available on-demand as part of the Lehigh Yahoo! Sports broadcast package.
Lehigh on the Radio
Lehigh football can be heard on commercial radio exclusively on the home of Lehigh Athletics, ESPN Radio of the Lehigh Valley (1230 and 1320 AM). Well-respected veteran Matt Kerr is back to call the play-by-play for his 13th season. Kerr will be joined in the booth by former Lehigh standouts Marty Horn '86 and Kody Fedorcha '00, as they team up to provide color commentary. For the third consecutive season, ESPN Radio's Matt Markus will patrol the sidelines for every Lehigh football broadcast. Radio coverage begins an hour prior to kick-off, with Markus and ESPN Program Director Tom Fallon anchoring the pre-game, halftime, and post-game activities.
ESPN Radio also broadcasts exclusive coverage of every Lehigh men’s basketball game, nearly all Lehigh wrestling dual meets, and up to ten Lehigh women’s basketball games. All Lehigh women’s basketball games can be heard live on WLVR-FM, Lehigh University’s radio station. Select wrestling matches, baseball and softball games will air on WLVR as well.
Lehigh Video and Audio Broadcasts On-Line
The Patriot League's annual leader in on-line broadcasts, Lehigh will stream 57 events – including soccer, field hockey, volleyball, and football – live on Lehighsports.com this fall through industry pioneer Yahoo! College Broadcast. This season, as work continues on a new Lehigh Athletics web site which will feature an array of Internet broadcast options, the live game broadcasts will be available free of charge. Lehigh evaluated several options for distributing streaming video and decided to remain with Yahoo! which has adjusted its business model by eliminating subscriber fees and revenue sharing. The cost of producing the fall season broadcasts will be absorbed by the Lehigh Athletics Partnership, in the aim of increasing the visibility of Lehigh’s expanding multimedia programming and to avoid any further confusion regarding subscription options for Lehigh Internet broadcasts. Since 2002, live Lehigh sports broadcasts had been available through Yahoo! for a $4.95 monthly access fee, and since 2007, Patriot League basketball broadcasts have been available through the CBS College Sports All-Access package at a $9.95 monthly access fee.
The Lehigh Athletics Partnership is an Athletics Department and Athletics Alumni and Friend organization focused on alumni relations, communications, and raising annual funds for athletics through gifts which help ensure that Lehigh remains competitive within the Patriot League and beyond. Annual gifts to the Athletics Partnership program supplement institutional funding and are used for student recruitment, staffing, student-athlete recognition programs and program-specific prioritized initiatives such as out of region scheduling or special equipment needs.
Over the upcoming school year, Lehigh will broadcast over 200 events on the Athletics Web site, including every football and basketball game, every wrestling dual meet, and most home contests for men’s and women’s soccer, field hockey, volleyball, baseball, softball, and men’s and women’s lacrosse.
For a complete list of schools participating in the Yahoo! Sports College Pack, please visit the Yahoo! Sports web site (sports.yahoo.com).
Lehigh Podcasts
Lehigh University has teamed up with Apple's iTunes to launch a University iTunes store. Lehigh Athletics provides a vast array of free content for download to an iPod, PC, Macintosh, or other portable media player. For more information on Lehigh podcasts, or to subscribe to this free service, visit the Lehigh Athletics podcast home.
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