Yahoo’s Puck Daddy To Team with Toronto’s theScore for NHL Trade Deadline Coverage

One very nice feature of this year’s NHL Trade Deadline is having Yahoo’s PuckDaddy Radio on top of all of the news. Friend of Fang’s Bites Greg Wyshynski will host five and a half hours of coverage starting at 10 a.m. Eastern time on Monday. Not only will it be heard in Toronto, but all over North America on Sirius Satellite Radio Channel 98 We have the press release.

theScore® Teams Up with Yahoo! Sports To Keep You in the Know on NHL® Trade Deadline Day

Can’t sit for hours in front of the TV?  theScore’s got you covered.

TORONTO, February 25th, 2011 – Score Media Inc. (TSX: SCR) and Yahoo! Sports today announce that they’re joining forces to get you everything you need to know – the way you want it – on NHL Trade Deadline Day.  >From Puck Daddy’s in-depth analysis throughout the day available on theScore Satellite Radio™ SIRIUS Channel 98 and streamed online on theScore.com and Yahoo! Sports along with regular TV updates from Sid Seixeiro and in-depth analysis by 24hrs in 30mins personalities Tim Micallef and Cam Stewart, theScore along with special contributions from Yahoo! Sports analysts will be the ultimate source for all the information you’ll need and want on trade deadline day.

Greg Wyshynski, editor of Puck Daddy, Yahoo! Sports’ infamous and humorous hockey blog and host of Puck Daddy Radio on theScore, will feature a special edition of his popular radio show live from 10-3:30 p.m. giving his analysis of each and every move.  With special guests, live in-studio visitors, and other members of Yahoo! Sports’ respected NHL analysts contributing to the show alongside their regular contributions to the Puck Daddy blog on Yahoo! Sports, this can’t-miss edition of Puck Daddy Radio will also be streamed on theScore.com.

“theScore is known for our authentic and in-depth sports analysis and our partnership with the Puck Daddy blog and Yahoo! Sports will add another level to our coverage that will give sports fans what they want, the way they want it,” says Benjie Levy, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Score Media Inc.

theScore.com, theScore iPad Edition and ScoreMobile will offer you everything you need to know wherever you are.  theScore.com’s talented roster of Sports Federation bloggers will be breaking down trades while the trade tracker will give you each and every move.  theScore iPad Edition will have a trade deadline blog and a trade, rumour and signing tracker available anywhere you are.  As always, the industry-leading app, ScoreMobile®, will have you covered with up-to-the minute reports on trade news and rumours throughout the day, available on your Android, BlackBerry, iPhone or Windows Phone 7 device.

theScore will also feature two special editions of 24hrs in 30mins with Tim Micallef and Cam Stewart, known for their hard-hitting and blunt analysis airing at both 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.  Throughout the day, theScore’s TV coverage will consist of on-going updates hosted by Score personality Sid Seixeiro who will be breaking down every move while paying particular attention to what is being said on Twitter by players, analysts, reporters and management.

And there you have it.

About Ken Fang

Ken has been covering the sports media in earnest at his own site, Fang's Bites since May 2007 and at Awful Announcing since March 2013. He provides a unique perspective having been an award-winning radio news reporter in Providence and having worked in local television. Fang celebrates the three Boston Red Sox World Championships in the 21st Century, but continues to be a long-suffering Cleveland Browns fan.

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