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RELEASED:
Thursday, March 2, 2006
Contact: Brian Peterson, FSN North, (612), 486-9520
Gary Karner, WIAC (608) 263-4402
FSN North to Televise WIAC Men's and Women's Basketball Championships and Men's Wrestling Championships
FSN
North has reached an agreement to televise the Wisconsin Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference's (WIAC) men's and women's basketball championship
games and the WIAC's men's wrestling championships.
2006 WIAC Championships
Telecast Schedule
Championship Date Time
Women's Basketball--Saturday, March 11, 2006 (tape delay) 1:00 p.m.
Men's Basketball--Sunday, March 12, 2006 (tape delay) 5:00 p.m.
Wrestling--Saturday, April 1, 2006 (tape delay) 1:00 p.m.
All of the WIAC championships on FSN North will be produced by Madison-based When We Were Young Productions.
Mitch Henk will call the play-by-play and former University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point head basketball coach Jack Bennett will provide analysis for the men's basketball championship game. Bob Bradovich (sports anchor for WQOW in Eau Claire, WI) will handle the play-by-play duties and Lois Heeren (head women's basketball coach at UW-La Crosse) provides color for the women's basketball championship game.
The wrestling play-by-play announcer is Joe Miller and former Wisconsin All-America Kevin Black offers analysis.
"The WIAC is extremely excited about the opportunity to showcase three of its premier championships on Fox Sports Net North to a statewide television audience," said WIAC Commissioner Gary Karner. "While the WIAC enjoys great fan support and interest from our statewide media, these telecasts represent a significant step in what we anticipate will lead to many more WIAC championship and regular-season events appearing on FSN North in the future."
FSN North reaches more than 3 million homes throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and North and South Dakota and telecasts nearly 2,600 hours of locally produced programming per year. The Emmy Award-winning regional sports network provides comprehensive coverage of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves and Milwaukee Bucks, MLB's Minnesota Twins and Milwaukee Brewers, the NHL's Minnesota Wild and the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx well as the University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin athletic events.
The Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) is composed of nine prominent NCAA Division III Wisconsin universities, including UW-Eau Claire, UW-La Crosse, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Platteville, UW-River Falls, UW-Stevens Point, UW-Stout, UW-Superior, and UW-Whitewater.
-FSN NORTH-
