April 20, 2007

JACKSON -- On their way up from Hattiesburg with destinations set in Oxford and Starkville, Miss., CSTV.com roadsters Evan Markfield and Matt Myers made a stop in the capital city of Jackson on Thursday afternoon to spend a day with the Millsaps Majors baseball team.

Markfield and Myers are nearly 20 days into a new online series called “Going Yard” in which the pair embarks on a three-month long road trip around the country covering baseball with only a video camera and a laptop. The show is a video-enhanced baseball post that gives fans an inside look at everything college baseball and can be accessed by visiting www.cstv.com/goingyard.

With a final destination at the Division I College World Series in the historical Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Neb., set to begin June 15, the duo are wrapping up a four-day road swing through Mississippi that will conclude Saturday night at Mississippi State University’s Dudy-Noble Field in Starkville.

College Sports Television (CSTV) officially began in April, 2003 as the first 24-hour network devoted exclusively to college sports, The debut was also noteworthy as College Sports Television was the first independent cable channel to appear on the nationwide DirecTV satellite system at launch.

Since then, CSTV has televised more than 6,000 hours of original programming, features, talk shows and documentaries as well as more women’s sports coverage than any other network. CSTV televises 30 men’s and women’s college sports including football, basketball, baseball, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, wrestling and volleyball from every major conference.

With nearly 15 million subscribers, College Sports Television currently has agreements with distributors representing more than 52 million homes nationwide, including Adelphia, Charter, Comcast, Cox, DirecTV, Dish Networks and Time Warner Cable. It is now one part of CSTV Networks, Inc., the leading digital sports media company, connecting more fans to more college sports than any other company with programming content distributed through cable and broadcast television, pay-per-view, satellite television and radio, in-flight entertainment, wireless networks and more.