Bowdern Selected For ECHL All-Star Broadcast
January 7, 2004 - ECHL (ECHL)
Wheeling Nailers News Release
WHEELING, WV â The Wheeling Nailers announce that Ned Bowdern, the team's Director of Communications/Broadcasting, has been selected for the 2004 Par-A-Dice/ECHL All-Star Game television broadcast.
The play-by-play will be handled by Jack Michaels of the Alaska Aces while former New York Rangers President and General Manager and current ESPN, TSN and NHL Network analyst Neil Smith will be the color commentator. Bowdern will handle in-game and between-period interviews with players, coaches and representatives from the ECHL and the National Hockey League.
For the second consecutive year, the telecast will be available live to subscribers of NHL Center Ice, the "Official Sports Package of the ECHL," in the United States on DIRECTV, DISH Network and iN DEMAND, and to subscribers of the NHL Network in Canada.
The ECHL, in association with Yahoo! Broadcast, is also making the telecast available online with live broadband video for the second year in a row. The live broadcast video requires a minimum connection speed of 100 Kbytes and Real Player. Dial-up customers will be able to listen to the radio broadcast on Yahoo! Broadcast, marking the fifth consecutive year that Yahoo! has carried the ECHL All-Star Game audio broadcast live on the Internet.
The game will be available to the subscribers of Comcast Sports Southeast at 12:30 p.m. on January 22 and at 4 p.m. on January 25 and to the subscribers of New England Sports Network on January 23 at 9:30 p.m. The telecast will be shown on CN8 on January 25 at 2 p.m. and on Cox Sports Television Louisiana at 3 p.m. on January 25.
Bowdern is in his fourth season with the Nailers and ninth season of hockey broadcasting. This will be his second ECHL All-Star Game, first as part of the television broadcast. Bowdern was a member of the 2002 Sovereign Bank/ECHL All-Star Game radio broadcast in Trenton, NJ
Before joining the Nailers, Bowdern broadcast for the Springfield (IL) Jr. Blues in the North American Hockey League, the Memphis RiverKings in the Central Hockey League and the Central Texas Stampede in the Western Professional Hockey League. He has also done the radio broadcast for the Washington (PA) Wild Things baseball team for the past two summers.
The 2004 Par-A-Dice/ECHL All-Star Game will be in Peoria, IL on Wednesday, January 21 at 8:00p.m. ET. The 2004 Par-A-Dice/ECHL Skills Competition will be on Tuesday, January 20.
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