Satnews Daily
November 12th, 2009

Crawford Sat Svcs Has Wazoo Sports For Kentucky (SatBroadcasting)


Crawford homepage Crawford Satellite Services has launched Wazoo Sports, a new regional network dedicated to covering Kentucky sports. Crawford provides the Channel with total broadcast solutions including origination services; encoding; transmission and satellite space segment; around-the-clock engineering support; and a post production graphics package.

Crawford delivers Wazoo Sports' content to AMC-10, transponder 15, for SD distribution to Kentucky cable headends and digital broadcast stations. The Channel officially launched on October 30th to hundreds of thousands of fans across the state, with additional carriage agreements possibly underway. Before becoming a TV channel, Wazoo Sports debuted over the Internet with real-time and on-demand streaming. Today, spectators have another option to watch the biggest state rivalries and hometown teams, live on television. Channel offerings include 24/7 high school, NAIA and NCAA football, basketball, baseball, soccer, softball and volleyball; middle school state championships; and classic University of Kentucky games from the eighties and nineties.