Wittenberg Partners With Stretch Internet to Provide High-Quality Internet Broadcasts of Athletic Events
Tiger sports fans have more reason than ever to be excited about the opening kickoff to the 2003-04 school year. Now anyone, anywhere can listen in on all the action - live via a new, state-of-the-art Internet feed made possible by alumni gifts and the university's athletic department.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - Wittenberg University Tiger sports
fans have more reason than ever to be excited about the opening
kickoff to the 2003-04 school year. Now anyone, anywhere can listen
in on all the action - live via a new, state-of-the-art Internet
feed made possible by alumni gifts and the university's athletic
department.
Wittenberg has partnered with Stretch Internet to make
selected sporting events available around the world. The new age in
Wittenberg athletic broadcasts begins Saturday, Sept. 6, with the
WULM broadcast of the Tiger football game at Albion College.
Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m., with pre-game and post-game
coverage also included in the online broadcast.
Wittenberg fans will not have to pay to listen to broadcasts,
and anyone with a computer and an Internet connection will be able
to log in and listen without risk of getting bumped off due to
listener limitations. Previously, Wittenberg utilized a free
Internet broadcast set-up that allowed a maximum of 25 listeners at
one time and frequently had poor sound quality due to transmission
and encoding problems.
The new service has been partially funded by gifts from
alumni who are members of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Alumni of this
former Wittenberg fraternity mobilized in recent weeks to help make
this exciting new partnership possible.
Stretch Internet utilizes QuickTime, Apple's premiere
multimedia suite of products. Prospective listeners need only to
download the free QuickTime Player (it's already installed on most
computers sold in the last two years), and they're ready to listen
to Wittenberg games live. QuickTime has already reached more than
100 million MacIntosh and PC users and works just like other
popular multimedia applications such as Windows Media Player or
Real Player.
Initially, Wittenberg football, men's basketball and women's
basketball games will be the offered via Stretch Internet, but it
is hoped that other campus and athletic events will be broadcast in
the future. WULM, the only radio station originating from
Springfield and the commercial radio home to Wittenberg Tiger
sports for decades, will broadcast football, men's basketball and
women's basketball games. WULM Sports Director and Voice of the
Tigers Marty Bannister is back on the microphone again in the
2003-04 school year.
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