Chase Chevrolet ECHL All-Star Game Broadcast Live On 10 Radio Stations In Eight ECHL Markets
January 8, 2008 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
PRINCETON, N.J. - The ECHL announced that the audio broadcast of
the 2008 Chase
Chevrolet ECHL All-Star Game presented by Bud Light and
Jackson Rancheria will be broadcast live on 10 radio stations in
eight ECHL markets.
Hosted by the Stockton Thunder and the City of Stockton at Stockton Arena,
the 2008 Chase
Chevrolet ECHL All-Star Game presented by Bud Light and
Jackson Rancheria will be played on Jan. 23 with the 11th edition of
the Chase
Chevrolet ECHL All-Star Game Skills Competition being held on Jan.
22.
The stations carrying the game are KGEO-AM 1230 in Bakersfield, Calif.;
1640 WTNI and 1490 WXBD in Biloxi, Miss.; 1350 KTIK - The Ticket in Boise,
Idaho; 790 ESPN Radio, The Deuce in Fresno, Calif.; AM-970 ESPN Radio in
Modesto/Stockton, Calif.; ESPN 910 The Team in North Charleston, S.C.; KKAT
AM 860 in Salt Lake City; 1420 KSTN-AM in Stockton, Calif.; and WKWK 97.3
FM in Wheeling, W.Va.
Offered free of charge by the league to all ECHL teams the audio broadcast
begins at 9:45 p.m. ET followed by the 16th Annual ECHL All-Star Game at 10:05
p.m. ET.
The audio broadcast is produced by NHL Radio and will feature Mike Benton
of the host Stockton Thunder, Brendan Burke of the Wheeling Nailers and
Leif Skodnick of the Mississippi Sea Wolves. The three will each work a
period as play-by-play announcer, color commentator and ice-level reporter.
The audio broadcast will be carried live for the third year in a row by XM
Satellite Radio, the nation's leading satellite radio service, on NHL
Hockey Play-by-Play (XM Channel 206) at 10 p.m. ET on Jan. 23 in the
United States on XM Radio and in Canada through XM's partner, Canadian
Satellite Radio. In addition to its broadcast of the All-Star Game, XM
Radio regularly features the Premier 'AA' Hockey League on "Hockey This
Morning" with Scott Laughlin heard each weekday morning on HOME ICE XM 204.
The broadcast is also being carried online through the ECHL web site by B2
Networks, the "Official Broadband Broadcast Provider of the ECHL".
Chase Chevrolet ECHL All-Star Game Notes
Chase
Chevrolet ECHL All-Star Game is presented by Jackson Rancheria
Casino & Hotel and Bud Light.
Game will be televised live at 10 p.m. ET on NHL Network for
sixth-consecutive year.
Telecast available online free-of-charge through ECHL web site on B2
Networks, the "Official Broadband Broadcast Provider of the ECHL".
Broadcast carried live on XM Radio for third consecutive year on NHL
Hockey Play-by-Play (XM Channel 206) at 10 p.m. ET on Jan. 23 in the
United States on XM Radio and in Canada through XM Radio's partner,
Canadian Satellite Radio.
The NHL Radio broadcast will be broadcast on KGEO-AM 1230 in Bakersfield,
Calif.; 1640 WTNI and 1490 WXBD in Biloxi, Miss.; 1350 KTIK - The Ticket in
Boise, Idaho; 790 ESPN Radio, The Deuce in Fresno, Calif.; AM-970 ESPN
Radio in Modesto/Stockton, Calif.; ESPN 910 The Team in North Charleston,
S.C.; KKAT AM 860 in Salt Lake City; 1420 KSTN-AM in Stockton, Calif.; and
WKWK 97.3 FM in Wheeling, W.Va.
Stanley Cup and Patrick J. Kelly Cup will be on display at all events.
Henry Brabham, Patrick J. Kelly, Nick Vitucci and Chris Valicevic will be
inducted as the inaugural class into the ECHL Hall of Fame at a luncheon
on Jan. 23.
Diane and Tom Husband of Phoenix are the winners of the Chase
Chevrolet "Win A Trip to the ECHL All-Star Game" contest,
receiving roundtrip transportation to Stockton where they will stay at the
new Sheraton Stockton Hotel at Regent Pointe, the official host
hotel of the 2008
Chase Chevrolet ECHL All-Star Game.
ECHL
Celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2007-08, the ECHL is the Premier 'AA'
Hockey League and the third-longest tenured professional hockey league
behind only the National Hockey League and the American Hockey League.
ECHL began in 1988-89 with five teams in four states and has grown to be a
coast-to-coast league with 25 teams playing 900 games in 17 states and
British Columbia in 2007-08.
The league officially changed its name to ECHL on May 19, 2003.
The ECHL has affiliations with 26 of the 30 teams in the NHL in 2007-08,
marking the 11th consecutive season that the league has had affiliations
with at least 20 teams in the NHL.
There have been 341
former ECHL players who have gone on to play in the NHL after playing in
the ECHL, including a record 47 in 2005-06 and 26 in 2006-07. There have
been 196 former ECHL players who have played their first game in the NHL in
the past five seasons.
There are 15 coaches in the NHL who have ECHL experience including former
Wheeling coach Peter Laviolette, who is head coach of the Carolina
Hurricanes, and former Mississippi coach Bruce Boudreau, who is head coach
of the Washington Capitals.
The ECHL is represented for the seventh consecutive year on the National
Hockey League championship team in 2007 with Anaheim assistant coach Dave
Farrish, players Francois Beauchemin and George Parros and broadcasters
John Ahlers and Steve Carroll.
The ECHL has affiliations with 26 of the 29 teams in the American Hockey
League in 2007-08 and for the past 18 years there has been an ECHL player
on the Calder Cup champion.
In each of the last two seasons there have been more than 225 players who
have played in both the ECHL and the AHL and there were over 800 call-ups
involving more than 500 players.
In the last five seasons the ECHL has had more call-ups to the AHL than all
other professional leagues combined with over 2,000 call-ups involving more
than 1,000 players since 2002-03.
Further information on the ECHL is available from its website at ECHL.com.
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