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Texas Stars and Border Media Group Announce Broadcast Agreement

September 22, 2011 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Texas Stars News Release


Cedar Park, TX - The Texas Stars and Border Media Group announced on Thursday a broadcast agreement for the 2011-12 American Hockey League season.

"The growth of the Texas Stars and the interest shown by fans in Central Texas during the first two seasons has been incredible", said Sports Director Erin Hogan. "Whether it's In the Cedar Park Center, in the community, or on the radio - the passion for the game of hockey has huge momentum, and we are thrilled to continue our partnership."

The entire 76-game schedule will be heard on one of Border Media Group's (BMG) ESPN radio affiliates, composed of 104.9 FM The Horn, 92.5 FM or ESPN 1530 AM. BMG's flagship sports talk station, ESPN 104.9 FM The Horn, is slated to carry 40 of the games throughout the year. The remaining 36 games will be aired on The Horn or 92.5 FM. Texas Stars play-by-play voice, Josh Fisher returns for his third season behind the microphone. Fisher has called each of the Stars first two seasons, including the exciting run to the Calder Cup Finals in the spring of 2010. He is entering his 12th season in professional hockey and has called more than 900 games over that span.

Not only will Border Media Group carry all the broadcasts, hockey fans will be able to tune to 104.9 FM The Horn every Wednesday at 8:35 am for "On the Ice with the Texas Stars", presented by Toyota. Once a week, a Texas Stars personality (players, GM, coaches or front office staff) will join Chip Brown and Erin Hogan for a weekly segment on the "Bud Light Morning Rush". Fans will also be able to catch a Texas Stars personality once a week on "The Adams Theory", a show hosted in the afternoons on 104.9 FM The Horn by Sean Adams and Ari Temkin.

"With all regular season games scheduled to air on Border Media Group's FM stations, we feel we are giving our fans the best option to follow the team throughout the 2011-12 season", said Texas Stars President Rick McLaughlin. "ESPN radio has been the home of Texas Stars hockey since day one and we are proud to extend our partnership."

Border Media Group - ESPN Austin - 104.9 FM The Horn is Austin's FM sports talk radio station. The Horn features 11 hours of local programming weekdays with established local on-air talents Erin Hogan, Chip Brown, Chad Hastings, Geoff Ketchum and more. 104.9 The Horn is affiliated with ESPN, the #1 sports brand in the world and is the radio home of the Texas Stars, Dallas Cowboys, Round Rock Express, San Antonio Spurs, Austin Toros and local area high school football. The Horn delivers a loyal listening audience of Men 25+ with incomes that exceed $50,000 per year.

Texas will play three preseason games starting on Friday, September 30 at 7:30 PM with the San Antonio Rampage visiting the Cedar Park Center. The team will then visit the Rampage on Saturday, October 1 at 3:00 PM in San Antonio. The game will be played at the Ice Center at Northwoods in San Antonio. Texas will round out its preseason schedule by hosting the Houston Aeros at 5:00 pm at Cedar Park Center. Tickets to both preseason games at the Cedar Park Center are now on sale.

The Texas Stars will host Opening Night at Cedar Park Center on Sunday, October 9th against the San Antonio Rampage at 5:00 pm. Every fan who attends the first regular season game of the year will receive a Texas Stars magnetic schedule compliments of Austin Telco Credit Union.

2011-12 season seat packages are on sale now. For more information on Texas Stars season tickets call (512) GO-STARS (467-8277) or visit www.TexasStarsHockey.com. Anyone interested in purchasing season tickets, suites, group tickets or mini-plans may call the Texas Stars front office.

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