I consider the currrent PRIME National GOTW a step **backwards**
for the CCHA. The league has fewer games on TV than before,
when they had a "CCHA GOTW" on PASS, which was occassionally
picked up by other PRIME affiliates around the country.
 
The league has almost no local braodcasts of its games. SportsChannel
Chicago may do a Flame game now and then, and East Lansing has
some local broadcasts of key Spartan games. A Toledo station did 1
BGSU game last year.
 
Look at that impressive BU TV schedule! Add in the NESN schedule, and
Hockey East has much better TV exposure than the CCHA. The WCHA
has a good number of local broadcasts, from what I see in the listings.
 
Bill Beagan, CCHA commissioner, was just bragging about this package
at the CCHA media day. If I would have been there, I would have asked
him, "How could you be excited about having LESS television coverage?".
 
Sure, your 10 games are shown in Arizona and South Carolina, Whoopee.
How many games do you have on TV in Detroit, Boston and Minneapolis?
The answer is still 10.
 
 
Keith
 
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