Wednesday, June 15, 2005

UMass 2005 TV schedule

UMass Football will be on TV four times this fall (2005).The entire official schedule is available here.

Three games will be on Comcast’s CN8

Team Location Time

JMU Amherst Noon

UNH Amherst Noon

Delaware Newark 1:00 pm

Army West Point TBA (ESPN network)

CN8 has a page detailing its sports offerings (including I-AA games) here.

CN8 offers a live video feed via the internet from this page. I have Verizon DSL and it works great, with the cravat that you have the choice of small and sharp or full screen and fuzzy. CN8 sometimes blacks out local games. Last year I tried to use it to see the UMass-Northeastern game and the game was blacked out. If you live in the Mid-Atlantic area and you have a fat data pipe, you might want to watch the game via CN8…

The ESPN game may be another story. I have the Dish Network Sports package, which includes ESPN, ESPN2 and the Fox Sports regional networks. ESPNU seems to be "vaporware" as it is impossible to find.