League Teams with Television Partners

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ALBANY, N.Y. -- ECAC Hockey announced today that it has partnered with Time Warner Sports to televise its 2008 Bank of America ECAC Hockey Championship semifinals and final March 21-22 at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. The contests also will be broadcast via SportsNet New York (SNY), and CN8/Comcast, which will broadcast the final.

"This is a tremendous relationship for our league," said Commissioner Steve Hagwell. "This partnership enables ECAC Hockey fans across the country the opportunity to watch championship action. We are thrilled to partner with all three networks, and look forward to a tremendous postseason."

"Producing and televising the (Bank of America) ECAC Hockey Championship will be one of the absolute highlights of our year," said Time Warner Sports General Manager, Doug Logan. "The extremely high level of play and the competitive balance of the league guarantees this to be another premiere event. I encourage anyone who can to attend this extraordinary tournament, but if you can't make it to the Times Union Center, rest assured we will capture all the excitement and drama as ECAC Hockey crowns its 2008 champion."

The 2008 Bank of America ECAC Hockey Championship semifinals will be held Friday, March 21. The first semifinals contest features seed No. 4 vs. No. 1 scheduled for a 4 p.m. start; the second semifinals contest showcases seed No. 3 vs. No. 2 and is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. The following day, Saturday, March 22, the third-place game will begin at 4 p.m. and the championship final will be held at 7 p.m.

ABOUT TIME WARNER SPORTS
Time Warner Sports is your home for live, local sports, serving 625,000 cable subscribers throughout Central and Northern New York, as well as the Southern Tier. Programming includes exclusive coverage of Syracuse University Football, Basketball and Lacrosse, and extensive coverage of virtually all professional, collegiate and scholastic sports. Time Warner Sports is based in East Syracuse, NY. Coordinating with Time Warner Divisions in Albany, Rochester, Buffalo, and Hudson Valley, Time Warner Sports produced programming reaches 2-million subscribers throughout Upstate New York.

ABOUT SPORTSNET NEW YORK (SNY)
SportsNet New York (SNY), which launched in the spring of 2006, is New York's new regional sports network founded by Sterling Entertainment Enterprises, Time Warner and Comcast. SNY is a 24/7 regional sports and entertainment television network. SNY is available to viewers in New York, Connecticut, most of New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania.

ABOUT CN8/COMCAST
CN8, The Comcast Network (www.CN8.tv) provides more than 9 million Comcast cable viewers with a unique brand of live, interactive television delivered over its own fiber-optic network to 12 states and 20 television markets stretching from Maine to Virginia and Washington, D.C. CN8 was founded in 1996 and has quickly grown to become the nation's leading regional cable network, airing more than 90 hours a week of original programming from its six studios in the Baltimore, Boston, Delaware, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. areas.

ABOUT ECAC HOCKEY
ECAC Hockey boasts elite student-athletes and teams from 12 of the nation's most prestigious institutions - Brown University, Clarkson University, Colgate University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, Quinnipiac University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, St. Lawrence University, Union College, and Yale University.