I just received the following press release, so I’m passing it along:

CSTV FEATURES LIVE COVERAGE FROM

BIG EAST MEDIA DAY SLAM

Coverage Available on Cable Network, DISH, DirecTV & Online

New York City, NY [October 19, 2005] — As players and coaches on campus get ready to take to the court for NCAA basketball, CSTV Networks tips off the 2005-06 Men’s Big East Basketball season with exclusive live coverage — on television and broadband — from next week’s Big East Media Day on Wednesday, October 26 [11:00 am – 1:30 pm ET]. CSTV basketball analyst Seth Davis [SI.com] will be on hand to host and CSTV’s lead hoops team — Carter Blackburn and just-signed Pete Gillen, former Virginia men’s basketball coach — will be present as well.

This will be the first look at the newly re-tooled 16-team Big East which is beginning to resemble a who’s who of coaches, led by Rick Pitino of Louisville and Hall of Fame inductees Jim Calhoun of UConn and Jim Boeheim of Syracuse.

For the first time, the event — live from the world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden — will be available on CSTV: College Sports Television, carried on cable systems throughout the country as well as on DISH Network’s America’s Top 120 package and DirecTV; as well as online through www.bigeast.org, the Big East official website operated by CSTV Online. CSTV’s official hoops schedule begins November 18 with Georgetown and Navy followed by Villanova at Penn State on November 21.

“This year, the Big East conference will field arguably the strongest men’s basketball conference in the nation,” said Tim Pernetti, SVP, Programming and Talent, CSTV. “CSTV’s unprecedented coverage on-air and on CSTV.com brings Basketball Media Day to a new level. Having seen the type of coverage that CSTV provided for Conference USA and Mountain West Conference Media Days, the Big East was looking for this same innovative exposure when it came time for their event.”

I was also informed that in addition to being live on the Big East site, it will be streamed live on CSTV.com. In past audio and video I’ve viewed on the BE site, it has been with Windows Media player.

Very cool, since my daughter would not be thrilled with this on TV that morning.