ANCHORAGE - University of Alaska Anchorage director of athletics Dr. Steve Cobb announced Thursday that GCI Cable will televise Seawolf hockey games statewide for the seventh consecutive season.
GCI audiences in Anchorage, Barrow, Bethel, Cordova, Fairbanks, Homer, Juneau, Kenai, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Kotzebue, Nome, Petersburg, Seward, Sitka, Valdez, Wrangell and the Mat-Su Valley can watch 27 of UAA's 34 regular-season games during the 2011-12 season.
The broadcasts will include all 17 home contests, beginning with the opening game of the 2011 Kendall Hockey Classic Oct. 7 against Clarkson University. UAA's first conference home series will be against Minnesota on Oct. 28-29. Surf to GoSeawolves.com for full home schedule.
GCI will also televise 11 of UAA's 17 road games live back to Anchorage, including the Seawolves' series at WCHA foes Minnesota Duluth (Nov. 11-12), Minnesota State (Nov. 25-26), Wisconsin (Jan. 20-21), and St. Cloud State (Feb. 17-18). UAA's games in the Brice Alaska Goal Rush (Oct.14-15) and the Alaska Airlines Governor's Cup game in Fairbanks (Feb. 25) will both be covered.
All home games will be televised live statewide with the exception of the Anchorage and Mat-Su areas, which will view the tape-delayed broadcast at 10:30 p.m. the same day, and repeating at 10 a.m. the next day. Kurt Haider, the voice of the Seawolves, will provide the play-by-play for all UAA games.
Viewers in Anchorage can watch all 29 televised games on GCI Cable Channel 1.
GCI will also be teaming up with NMTV Sports for the second season to provide live internet video streams of all the home UAA hockey broadcasts at PennAtlantic.com. Additional links to the internet streams for select away contests will be available at GoSeawolves.com prior to each series.
UAA students representing the school's journalism and public communications department will manage the cameras and produce the live broadcasts from Sullivan Arena.
In addition to the game broadcasts, GCI and the UAA journalism and public communications department will produce a weekly coach's show featuring Seawolf head coach Dave Shyiak and a student-athlete. The show will air a half hour prior to the all Friday home games as well as at 7 p.m. each Thursday.
