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NO BULL! VERSUS GRABS THE PBR AWAY FROM ESPN
VERSUS, the upstart national cable sports network that wrested the NHL from ESPN last year,
has done it again. This time, Versus has captured the Professtional Bullriding Rodeo series of
27 events, to be capped off with coverage of the PBR finals in October and November 2007.
Since transforming from Outdoor Life, the VERSUS cable sports network has repeatedly won
top sporting events that were formerly staples of ESPN.
Full Schedule for 2007 PBR Events on VERSUS Follows (subject to change):
New York
Jan. 6 7:30 p.m. ET
Jan. 7 8 p.m. ET
Worcester
Jan. 13-14 8 p.m. ET
Sacramento
Jan. 20 9 p.m. ET
Jan. 21 8 p.m. ET
Charlotte
Jan. 27-28 8 p.m. ET
Tampa
Feb. 3-4 8 p.m. ET
Anaheim
Feb. 10 9 p.m. ET
Feb. 11 8 p.m. ET
Oklahoma City
Feb. 17-18 8 p.m. ET
St. Louis
Feb. 24-25 8 p.m. ET
New Orleans
Mar. 3-4 8 p.m. ET
Kansas City
Mar. 10 9 p.m. ET
Mar. 11 8 p.m. ET
Tacoma
Mar. 17 9 p.m. ET
Mar. 18 8 p.m. ET
Omaha
Mar. 24-25 8 p.m. ET
Albuquerque
Mar. 31-Apr. 1 8 p.m. ET
Auburn Hills
Apr. 14-15 TBD
Billings
Apr. 21 9 p.m. ET
Apr. 22 TBD
Tampa
Apr. 28-29 TBD
Australia
June 9-10 9 p.m. ET
Nashville
June 16 9 p.m. ET
June 17 8 p.m. ET
Dallas
June 23-24 9 p.m. ET
Glendale
June 30-July 1 9 p.m. ET
Tulsa
Aug. 4-5 8 p.m. ET
Chihuahua
Aug. 25 9 p.m. ET
Aug. 26 8 p.m. ET
Reno
Sept. 8 9 p.m. ET
Sept. 9 8 p.m. ET
Greensboro
Sept. 15-16 8 p.m. ET
Grand Rapids
Sept. 22 8 p.m. ET
Sept. 23 9p.m. ET
Uncasville
Sept. 29-30 8 p.m. ET
Columbus
Oct. 13-14 8 p.m. ET
Oct. 26 - 27 9 p.m. ET
PBR WORLD FINALS
Oct. 28 6 p.m. ET
Nov. 1-3 9 p.m. ET
Nov. 4 7 p.m. ET
More than 100 million viewers tune in each year to the PBR on FOX, NBC, VERSUS and on a
host of foreign networks across the globe. With approximately 500 hours of prime time
programming annually PBR ranks among the most prolific sports on air, in addition to attracting
over one and one half million live event attendees each year with its multi-tiered event
structure which includes the marquee Built Ford Tough Series presented by Wrangler, the U.S.
Smokeless Tobacco Company Challenger Tour, the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Tour, and the
Discovery Tour, designed specifically for entry level contestants. The PBR's governing board
of directors is comprised of renowned bull riders who have developed the event into a stand
alone sport which is experiencing unprecedented growth in global popularity. The PBR is
headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo., and has over 1,200 PBR bull riders compete in
more than 300 PBR sanctioned competitions in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada,
and Mexico.
VERSUS (VERSUS.com) celebrates real competition in all its forms. The network is the national
cable home of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Stanley Cup Playoffs as well as best-
in-class events like The Tour de France, the America's Cup, the Dakar Rally, the Professional
Bull Riders (PBR), Professional Boxing, the Boston Marathon, AMA Motocross and Davis Cup.
Now in more than 70 million homes, the network features the best field sports programming on
television and is a destination for sports fans, athletes and sportsmen to find exclusive,
competitive events that audiences can't find elsewhere. The network offers unique, competition-
themed original programming and is the exclusive home of Survivor in syndication. VERSUS, a
wholly owned company of Comcast Corporation, is distributed via cable systems and satellite
operators throughout the United States.
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SPORTSTV4U.COM PRESENTS CLASSIC NASL SOCCER ON FREE INTERNET TELEVISION
TV4U, Inc. is presenting a 13 game package of Classic NASL soccer games on its free internet
television broadband channel, www.sportstv4u.com.
Games include action from legendary teams such as the New York Cosmos, featuring Pele,
Franz Becakenbauer, and Chinaglia, plus the Philadelphia Atoms, Rochester Lancers, Chicago
Sting, Washington Diplomats, Los Angeles Aztecs, Dallas Tornado, Minnesota Kicks, Seattle
Sounders, and othe NASL teams. Gas
Games come from the TVS Television Network and the Mizlou Television Network libraries.
Top announcers such as Jon Miller, Howard David, Jim Karvallis, and Paul Gardner bring fans
the action.
SportsTV4U is one of 16 broadband channels presented by TV4U.Com, one of the top four
broadband networks. The programming is advertising supported and free to viewers worldwide.
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Sport Magazine Remembers the Mizlou Television Network
The Mizlou Television Network was an early syndicator of television sports in the United States,
. It was founded in 1961 by brothers Vic and Claude Piano. Its first telecast was of the Peach
Bowl football game.
The network was not a full-time network like NBC, ABC or CBS. Rather, it produced sports
programming and offered it to an "ad hoc" set of affiliates set up on an event by event basis. It
was seen on affiliates of all three networks, and on independent television stations as well.
This was in an era long before satellite distribution of television signals. Mizlou had, outside of
the major networks, the only system capable of distribution of signals to television stations on a
nationwide basis in that era, via a nationwide system of land lines and microwave facilities.
Mizlou covered more college bowl games than any other network in its era, and also covered
college basketball, NASL soccer, boxing, and LPGA golf. In the 1980s Mizlou gave NASCAR its
first regular national television coverage and was a telecasting pioneer of the Professional
Rodeo Cowboys Association as well. Mizlou also used its system to facilitate distribution of live
events like Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon.
The business fell on hard times with the birth of all-sports networks like ESPN and with the
development of easy satellite distribution of syndicated sports, which rendered its exclusive
land based system of distribution obsolete via its easy duplication by satellite feeds. In the
early 1990s Mizlou dropped out of the syndication business and sold their programming library
to Reach Entertainment and launched an all-sports news network (Mizlou Sports News
Network), which failed.
Mizlou covered events are now seen on SportsTV4U.Com, a free internet television
broadband channel that is a part of the TV4U.Com broadband network.
Now on SportsTV4U.Com:
Pele / New York Cosmos Soccer
PRCA Pro Rodeo
National College Rodeo Championships
Holiday Bowl
Independence Bowl
Senior Bowl
NIT Basketball
East West Shrine Game
Brunswick Bowling
Pro Arm Wrestling
PGA Senior Golf
LPGA Golf
Pro Volleyball League
Eastern Eight Basketball
Tangerine Bowl
All American Bowl
Stroh’s Boxing
NASL Soccer
VERSUS, the upstart national cable sports network that wrested the NHL from ESPN last year,
has done it again. This time, Versus has captured the Professtional Bullriding Rodeo series of
27 events, to be capped off with coverage of the PBR finals in October and November 2007.
Since transforming from Outdoor Life, the VERSUS cable sports network has repeatedly won
top sporting events that were formerly staples of ESPN.
Full Schedule for 2007 PBR Events on VERSUS Follows (subject to change):
New York
Jan. 6 7:30 p.m. ET
Jan. 7 8 p.m. ET
Worcester
Jan. 13-14 8 p.m. ET
Sacramento
Jan. 20 9 p.m. ET
Jan. 21 8 p.m. ET
Charlotte
Jan. 27-28 8 p.m. ET
Tampa
Feb. 3-4 8 p.m. ET
Anaheim
Feb. 10 9 p.m. ET
Feb. 11 8 p.m. ET
Oklahoma City
Feb. 17-18 8 p.m. ET
St. Louis
Feb. 24-25 8 p.m. ET
New Orleans
Mar. 3-4 8 p.m. ET
Kansas City
Mar. 10 9 p.m. ET
Mar. 11 8 p.m. ET
Tacoma
Mar. 17 9 p.m. ET
Mar. 18 8 p.m. ET
Omaha
Mar. 24-25 8 p.m. ET
Albuquerque
Mar. 31-Apr. 1 8 p.m. ET
Auburn Hills
Apr. 14-15 TBD
Billings
Apr. 21 9 p.m. ET
Apr. 22 TBD
Tampa
Apr. 28-29 TBD
Australia
June 9-10 9 p.m. ET
Nashville
June 16 9 p.m. ET
June 17 8 p.m. ET
Dallas
June 23-24 9 p.m. ET
Glendale
June 30-July 1 9 p.m. ET
Tulsa
Aug. 4-5 8 p.m. ET
Chihuahua
Aug. 25 9 p.m. ET
Aug. 26 8 p.m. ET
Reno
Sept. 8 9 p.m. ET
Sept. 9 8 p.m. ET
Greensboro
Sept. 15-16 8 p.m. ET
Grand Rapids
Sept. 22 8 p.m. ET
Sept. 23 9p.m. ET
Uncasville
Sept. 29-30 8 p.m. ET
Columbus
Oct. 13-14 8 p.m. ET
Oct. 26 - 27 9 p.m. ET
PBR WORLD FINALS
Oct. 28 6 p.m. ET
Nov. 1-3 9 p.m. ET
Nov. 4 7 p.m. ET
More than 100 million viewers tune in each year to the PBR on FOX, NBC, VERSUS and on a
host of foreign networks across the globe. With approximately 500 hours of prime time
programming annually PBR ranks among the most prolific sports on air, in addition to attracting
over one and one half million live event attendees each year with its multi-tiered event
structure which includes the marquee Built Ford Tough Series presented by Wrangler, the U.S.
Smokeless Tobacco Company Challenger Tour, the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Tour, and the
Discovery Tour, designed specifically for entry level contestants. The PBR's governing board
of directors is comprised of renowned bull riders who have developed the event into a stand
alone sport which is experiencing unprecedented growth in global popularity. The PBR is
headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo., and has over 1,200 PBR bull riders compete in
more than 300 PBR sanctioned competitions in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada,
and Mexico.
VERSUS (VERSUS.com) celebrates real competition in all its forms. The network is the national
cable home of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Stanley Cup Playoffs as well as best-
in-class events like The Tour de France, the America's Cup, the Dakar Rally, the Professional
Bull Riders (PBR), Professional Boxing, the Boston Marathon, AMA Motocross and Davis Cup.
Now in more than 70 million homes, the network features the best field sports programming on
television and is a destination for sports fans, athletes and sportsmen to find exclusive,
competitive events that audiences can't find elsewhere. The network offers unique, competition-
themed original programming and is the exclusive home of Survivor in syndication. VERSUS, a
wholly owned company of Comcast Corporation, is distributed via cable systems and satellite
operators throughout the United States.
#####
SPORTSTV4U.COM PRESENTS CLASSIC NASL SOCCER ON FREE INTERNET TELEVISION
TV4U, Inc. is presenting a 13 game package of Classic NASL soccer games on its free internet
television broadband channel, www.sportstv4u.com.
Games include action from legendary teams such as the New York Cosmos, featuring Pele,
Franz Becakenbauer, and Chinaglia, plus the Philadelphia Atoms, Rochester Lancers, Chicago
Sting, Washington Diplomats, Los Angeles Aztecs, Dallas Tornado, Minnesota Kicks, Seattle
Sounders, and othe NASL teams. Gas
Games come from the TVS Television Network and the Mizlou Television Network libraries.
Top announcers such as Jon Miller, Howard David, Jim Karvallis, and Paul Gardner bring fans
the action.
SportsTV4U is one of 16 broadband channels presented by TV4U.Com, one of the top four
broadband networks. The programming is advertising supported and free to viewers worldwide.
#####
Sport Magazine Remembers the Mizlou Television Network
The Mizlou Television Network was an early syndicator of television sports in the United States,
. It was founded in 1961 by brothers Vic and Claude Piano. Its first telecast was of the Peach
Bowl football game.
The network was not a full-time network like NBC, ABC or CBS. Rather, it produced sports
programming and offered it to an "ad hoc" set of affiliates set up on an event by event basis. It
was seen on affiliates of all three networks, and on independent television stations as well.
This was in an era long before satellite distribution of television signals. Mizlou had, outside of
the major networks, the only system capable of distribution of signals to television stations on a
nationwide basis in that era, via a nationwide system of land lines and microwave facilities.
Mizlou covered more college bowl games than any other network in its era, and also covered
college basketball, NASL soccer, boxing, and LPGA golf. In the 1980s Mizlou gave NASCAR its
first regular national television coverage and was a telecasting pioneer of the Professional
Rodeo Cowboys Association as well. Mizlou also used its system to facilitate distribution of live
events like Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon.
The business fell on hard times with the birth of all-sports networks like ESPN and with the
development of easy satellite distribution of syndicated sports, which rendered its exclusive
land based system of distribution obsolete via its easy duplication by satellite feeds. In the
early 1990s Mizlou dropped out of the syndication business and sold their programming library
to Reach Entertainment and launched an all-sports news network (Mizlou Sports News
Network), which failed.
Mizlou covered events are now seen on SportsTV4U.Com, a free internet television
broadband channel that is a part of the TV4U.Com broadband network.
Now on SportsTV4U.Com:
Pele / New York Cosmos Soccer
PRCA Pro Rodeo
National College Rodeo Championships
Holiday Bowl
Independence Bowl
Senior Bowl
NIT Basketball
East West Shrine Game
Brunswick Bowling
Pro Arm Wrestling
PGA Senior Golf
LPGA Golf
Pro Volleyball League
Eastern Eight Basketball
Tangerine Bowl
All American Bowl
Stroh’s Boxing
NASL Soccer
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