BYU Athletic Events to be Broadcast on BYU Radio

PROVO -- Beginning September 2002, the BYU Athletic Department will partner with BYU Broadcast Services to broadcast more than 120 athletic events during the 2002-03 season on newly-created BYU Radio.

A sister to BYU Television, BYU Radio was born in 2002 out of Bonneville International's LDS Radio Signal. The station officially launched August 1, 2002, bringing its programming to home, computers, and televisions all over the world.

BYU Radio is currently available 24-hours per day on the Dish Network, channel 980 (extended package) and is also available on the Internet at byuradio.org/streaming.

"We have been laying the ground work for this partnership for several months," said Duff Tittle, BYU associate athletic director for communications. "This broadcast package will provide BYU with one of the most comprehensive radio packages in all of college athletics. We are really excited about the national and even global exposure BYU Radio will bring to BYU Athletics."

BYU Radio's primary signal includes musical, devotional, and sports programming. In addition to BYU Athletic events, daily programming includes, BYU devotionals and forums; CES and Church firesides; General Conference broadcasts and rebroadcasts; BYU Education Week and Women's Conferences; BYU musical performances; Music and the Spoken Word; and LDS-themed music and related performances.

The first live sports broadcast took place on Thursday, September 5, as the BYU women's volleyball team tookk on PAC 10 powerhouse USC in the Smith Fieldhouse. A second volleyball match was broadcast two days later when the Cougars took on the Florida Gators.

In addition to women's volleyball, BYU will air live broadcasts of the entire women's basketball season, select conference games in baseball and softball, as well as some men's volleyball matches. BYU has also created an unique partnership with KSL Radio in Salt Lake City, that will allow BYU Radio to air taped-delayed broadcasts of football and men's basketball games.

A complete schedule from September through December 2002 is listed below. A January through May schedule will be announced in mid October.

"We are excited about the opportunity to provide BYU athletic events to our listening audience," said John Reim, CEO and general manager of BYU Broadcasting. "BYU has one of the best athletic programs in the country and we are looking forward to a successful partnership."

Veteran broadcaster, Jay Monsen will provide play-by-play commentary for most of the women's volleyball and women's basketball games. Monsen is well know for his years of broadcasting BYU sports on KBYU.

An up-to-date broadcast schedule, including starting times, can be found at www.byucougars.com. Information about the Dish Network is available at www.byuradio.org/getbyuradio/.

In addition to the Dish Network and the Internet, BYU Radio is available as the SAP channel on BYU Television to All-American Cable System subscribers in the Mesa, Arizona area (channel 97). For "backyard" dish owners BYU Radio is also available on a digital receiver at the following coordinates: Telestar 5, transponder 11; Downlink Frequency: 3934.8 MHz; Data Rate: 3.648 Mb/s; Symbol Rate: 2.639 MS/s; FEC: 3/4 (BYU Radio is on the second audio PID).

September
	5	Thur.	W-Volleyball	USC
	6	Fri.	Football	Hawaii
	7	Sat.	W-Volleyball	Florida
	14	Sat.	Football	@ Nevada
	19	Thur.	W-Volleyball	Arkansas
	21	Sat.	Football	@ Georgia Tech
October
	4	Fri.	Football	@ Utah State
	5	Sat.	W-Volleyball	New Mexico
	12	Sat.	Football	@ Air Force
	19	Sat.	Football	UNLV
	24	Thur.	Football	@ Colorado State
	25	Fri.	W-Volleyball	UNLV
November
	2	Sat.	Football	San Diego State
	8	Fri.	W-Volleyball	Utah
	9	Sat.	Football	Wyoming
	15	Fri.	W-Volleyball	Wyoming
	16	Sat.	Football	New Mexico
	22	Fri.	W-Basketball	Texas
	23	Sat.	Football	@ Utah
	26	Tue.	W-Volleyball	Hawaii
	27	Wed.	W-Basketball	Boise State
	30	Sat.	W-Basketball	Weber State
	30	Sat.	Basketball	Rice
December
	3	Tues.	W-Basketball	@ Southern Utah
	4	Wed.	Basketball	@ Arizona State
	5	Thur.	W-Basketball	@ U of San Francisco
	7	Sat.	W-Basketball	@ Oregon
	7	Sat.	Basketball	@ Creighton
	11	Wed.	W-Basketball	@ George Washington
	11	Wed.	Basketball	U of San Diego
	14	Sat.	W-Basketball	@ North Carolina St.
	14	Sat.	Basketball	Utah State
	21	Sat.	W-Basketball	@ Triple Crown
	21	Sat.	Basketball	UC Santa Barbara
	28	Sat.	Basketball	Southern Utah
	30	Mon.	W-Basketball	Montana State