ACC, Maryland, NACDA join University Netcasting's on-line network of official athletic Web sites.CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 1996--The Atlantic Coast Conference The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953, the ACC's twelve member universities compete in twenty sports in the NCAA's Division I. (ACC), the University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to:
With this announcement, UNI now represents nine major colleges, universities and athletic organizations, including the University of Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame, University of (nō`tər dām, nō`trə), at Notre Dame, Ind., near South Bend; Roman Catholic; coeducational; est. and opened 1842, chartered 1844. Southern California, University of Southern California, University of, at Los Angeles; coeducational; chartered and opened 1880. The university has a liberal arts college and a graduate school as well as schools of architecture, urban and regional planning, engineering, safety and systems management, California, The University of Arizona (body, education) University of Arizona - The University was founded in 1885 as a Land Grant institution with a three-fold mission of teaching, research and public service. , Texas Tech University and the Big 12 Conference. These organizations have joined with UNI to provide the first official web experience for the collegiate affinity audience. UNI builds and maintains each entity's "Official Athletic Site'" (OAS), the institution's exclusive, authorized athletic site on the World Wide Web. Access to each Official Athletic Site will be through a gateway site, FANSonly' (www.fansonly.com). All sites will be updated daily and are free to anyone with Internet access and a frame-compliant web browser such as Netscape 2.0 or higher, Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. 3.0 or America Online 3.0. "Along with our marketing representative, ACC Properties, we are excited about joining with University Netcasting to fully develop an official ACC Internet site," said Rick Chryst, assistant commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference, a nine-member conference covering six states across the Southeast. "We feel the technical and editorial capabilities of University Netcasting in concert with the promotional power of Raycom and the licensing expertise of The Collegiate Licensing Company The Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC) is an American collegiate trademark licensing and marketing company. Founded in 1981 in Selma, Alabama, CLC is the largest and oldest collegiate licensing company in the United States and currently provides its services to more than 200 form the perfect partners to move forward in this new medium." "Our involvement with University Netcasting is a natural extension of Raycom's marketing strength," said Raycom President & CEO Ray Warren. "It allows us to ensure the highest level of service to our rightsholder, the Atlantic Coast Conference, while keeping our highly regarded sales force far out in front of other marketers in the sports industry." "This joint-venture allows us to spread the word about our athletics better than ever before," said Maryland Athletic Director Deborah Yow. "A polished, timely Web site in this network will allow us to provide Terrapin terrapin (tĕr`əpĭn), name for several edible turtles of fresh or brackish water. terrapin Any omnivorous aquatic turtle of the family Emydidae, especially the diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin). athletic information and game results to college sports fans throughout the country." "One of the main purposes of NACDA is to facilitate the education and exchange of information of collegiate athletics administrators. University Netcasting is going to make this exchange faster and easier than we ever thought possible," said NACDA Executive Director Mike Cleary. "We have more than 5,100 members at 1,500 institutions who will now be able to access each other's resources and insights almost instantaneously. Plus, we can promote our association and earn revenue, enabling us to provide more educational opportunities." About University Netcasting Inc. University Netcasting is the outgrowth of some of the most successful companies in the collegiate industry, including Raycom, Inc., a college sports programmer and marketer, The Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC), a professional manager of collegiate licensing, representing more than 150 institutions, bowl games and athletic conferences and Stella Interactive Inc., publishers of ABC Sports Presents the College Sports Series on CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). . Other equity holders in the Internet start-up include Atlanta-based iXL (www.ixl.com), an Internet/multimedia development company chaired by communications entrepreneur Bert Ellis, and venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] Baccharis Capital Inc., of Menlo Park, Calif., and Lawrence & Company Inc. of Toronto. University Netcasting has headquarters in Carlsbad, and led by Stella Interactive founder and CEO Richard Beedon. For more information on University Netcasting, visit the company's corporate Web site at http://www.uninc.com. CONTACT: University Netcasting Inc. Benjamin L. Padnos 619/431-8221, ext. 124 badnos@uninc.com Teri Bruno 714/536-8407 teribruno@aol.com |
|
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion