ABA and CMX Sports sign worldwide webcasting agreement
Published on September 14, 2004 under American Basketball Association (ABA) News Release
Indianapolis, IN. Joe Newman, ABA Co-Founder, today announced that the professional basketball league has signed an agreement with CMXsports to produce and broadcast ABA basketball games via the Internet through streaming video techology. According to Newman, "CMXsports is one amazing company, a member of the CMX family of entertainment companies and a division of CMX Productions, a sports marketing and events management company catering to who's who in sports and entertainment figures and events. Their Las Vegas facility provides state-of-the-art world class audio, video and film production. The ABA is absolutely thrilled to partner with this outstanding organization and to be able to have its games shown throughout the world."
Eric Brown, Co-CEO and President of CMX Sports and Entertainment said, "We are very pleased and proud also to be a part of the ABA, the fastest growing professional sports league in the country. Basketball is our passion and we like the exciting, fast-paced style of ABA ball and know that fans all over the world will enjoy it also."
Brown added, "We have had very good luck with our Friday Night Fights, weekly boxing streaming to your computer live from the Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, the entertainment capital of the world. With 13,000,000 homes already in our data base, the potential exposure for the ABA is enormous."
Ricardo Richardson, ABA EVP, concluded, "While basketball is the centerpiece of our relationship with CMX, no small part of it is CMX's entertainment division. The ABA Entertainment division will work closely with CMX to provide internet concerts and and other entertainment events that can be steamed worldwide also."
For more information about CMX's companies, log onto www.cmxsports.com or www.cmxlasvegastudios.com or log onto www.abalive.com. You can reach Eric Brown at (702) 362-4660.
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