Spring game to be televised

Cox Sports Television And WCTX/MyTV9 To Televise Blue-White Spring Football Game

STORRS, Conn. — Cox Sports Television will televise the UConn Blue-White Spring Football Game live on Saturday, April 19, 2008 from Rentschler Field at 12:00 p.m. The 2008 spring game marks the second consecutive year that Cox has broadcast the spring game and this year’s contest will also include involvement from WCTX/MyTV9, including two taped-delayed rebroadcasts.

The rebroadcasts will be on Sunday, April 20 at 7:00 p.m. and then on Saturday, April 26 at noon.

ESPN International play-by-play announcer Mark Brown will call the action of the game for the second-straight year and will again be joined by former UConn All-American (1990 and ’91) and Pittsburgh Steeler Mark Didio. Sportscaster John Pierson of WTNH-TV and MyTV9 will be the sideline announcer.

Cox Sports (Cox channel 3) is a regional sports network that delivers exclusive, high profile professional, amateur and collegiate men’s and women’s sporting events to viewers in its coverage area of Connecticut and Rhode Island. UConn's partnership with Cox Sports started last spring and has televised Husky sporting events in baseball, softball, men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball and women's lacrosse.

The Connecticut cities and towns serviced by Cox include: Cheshire, East Granby, East Windsor, Enfield, Glastonbury, Granby, Hartland, Manchester, Meriden, Newington, Rocky Hill, Somers, Southington, South Windsor, Suffield, Wethersfield, Windsor Locks and Union.

WTNH-News Channel 8 and WCTX-MyTV9 is the local television home for UConn football and men’s basketball through its agreement with ESPN Regional Television. In addition to its game day programming and local sports coverage, the stations also produce a monthly magazine show on UConn athletics titled “Huskies All-Access.”