NJCAA TV to Deliver LIVE Video Streaming of NJCAA Championships

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Nov. 13, 2009) – The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) is excited to announce the creation of NJCAA TV, which will officially launch Nov. 19, 2009 on the organization’s official website www.njcaa.org. NJCAA TV is the product of a joint venture between the NJCAA and Panhandle Sports Broadcasting and will deliver LIVE video streaming of select NJCAA Championship events.

NJCAA TV will be available on the NJCAA website at www.njcaa.org/tv and is set to launch its first broadcasts Nov. 19-22 as NJCAA TV will video stream all 27 matches of the NJCAA Division I Volleyball Championship LIVE from Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Also scheduled to be carried on NJCAA TV this academic year will be an NJCAA football bowl game (to be selected after Nov. 17), the Division I Men’s Basketball Championship Tournament March 16-20, 2010 from Hutchinson, Kan.; the Division I Women’s Basketball Championship Tournament March 16-20, 2010 from Salina, Kan.; the Division I Softball Championship May 20-22, 2010 from St. George, Utah; and the Division I JUCO Baseball World Series May 29 – June 5, 2010 from Grand Junction, Colo.

Panhandle Sports Broadcasting (www.PSBLive.com ) is a regional sports internet broadcasting company based in Florida that provides coverage of college, high school and youth sports through internet streaming in audio and video media.

The creation of NJCAA TV provides both the NJCAA and Panhandle Sports Broadcasting an opportunity to showcase their organizations to a national audience. NJCAA TV’s home on the NJCAA website (www.njcaa.org ) is the perfect location for the channel as the site averages over a million hits a month and is the official site for two-year college athletics. With the addition of NJCAA TV, the website can now also proclaim itself as the official website of LIVE video coverage of NJCAA Championship events.

“We are very excited about NJCAA TV,” proclaims NJCAA Executive Director Mary Ellen Leicht. “This partnership with Panhandle Sports Broadcasting will go a long way in helping us further promote our great student-athletes and member colleges as well as showcase the great competition at our national championships.”

Since the start of the 2009-2010 academic year, the efforts of the NJCAA National Office has catapulted the organization into the video age first with the creation of the weekly video web show NJCAA 360º, with new episodes uploaded each Wednesday at www.njcaa.org, and now NJCAA TV.

In addition to live coverage, NJCAA TV will also provide archives of previous broadcasts that will be accessible any time. DVD copies of each individual broadcast will be available for purchase through Panhandle Sports Broadcasting.

To learn more about NJCAA TV or to inquire about possible advertising opportunities please contact NJCAA Executive Director Mary Ellen Leicht or NJCAA Sports Information Director Mark Krug at 719.590.9788.

All live and archived broadcasts on NJCAA TV are the exclusive property of the National Junior College Athletic Association. Any rebroadcast, retransmission, or other use of NJCAA TV broadcasts without the express written consent of the National Junior College Athletic Association, is prohibited.