CBS Sports Network Becomes The Home of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference

Starting with the 2013-14 season, the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference will begin play and it will also have a new TV contract in tow. CBS Sports Network has announced that it will air at least 18 conference games including the semifinals and finals. The NCHC will start play with teams from the CCHA and the WCHA conferences.

Due to the Big Ten starting a hockey conference, the teams left from the WCHA and CCHA decided to form a new league that would begin play at the same time of the new Big Ten hockey conference.

And to help out, CBS Sports Network announced Tuesday that it would carry the league’s games. We have the press release.

CBS SPORTS NETWORK SIGNS MULTI-YEAR DEAL WITH NATIONAL COLLEGIATE HOCKEY CONFERENCE

Network to be Exclusive National Television Partner for New Hockey Conference Featuring Eight of the Nation’s Top College Hockey Teams

CBS Sports Network has agreed to a multi-year agreement with the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference, beginning in the 2013-2014 season. CBS Sports Network will be the exclusive national television partner for the conference, which will feature eight of the nation’s top college hockey programs. The announcement was made today by Dan Weinberg, Senior Vice President, Programming, CBS Sports Network, and Jim Scherr, Commissioner of the National.

The agreement calls for a minimum of 18 conference games, including the National’s semifinal and championship contests. Currently six teams that will be in the new conference are ranked in the USCHO.com Top 20 poll.

“With top teams and passionate fan bases, the National is poised to be an elite college hockey conference, and we’re thrilled to be the national television partner,” said Weinberg.  “College hockey has been a staple of our programming and we’re pleased to expand our coverage and further serve fans with compelling and competitive conference action.”

We are delighted to be associated with the preeminent national broadcaster of college hockey,” said Scherr.  “It is our goal to be the premier single-sport conference in intercollegiate athletics and the unmatched exposure and production quality that will be provided by CBS Sports Network will contribute significantly to realizing that vision.”

Currently, CBS Sports Network’s comprehensive college hockey coverage includes action from Hockey East, ECAC, CCHA, WCHA and Atlantic Hockey.

That will do it. We’ll shut the site down for the night.

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