Posted: Aug 21, 2015

Salve Regina announces its broadcast streaming schedule

The Seahawk sports information office will produce over 150 broadcasts on Ustream.tv for events during the 2015-16 academic year.

NEWPORT, R.I. - Salve Regina University sports information director Ed Habershaw says his department will return to Ustream.tv to deliver video webcasts to Seahawk fans worldwide.

The return to Ustream.tv (after one year with Volar Video) allows Seahawk fans to maintain their free access to high definition video of games while adding a number of features.

“We are really excited about upgrading the quality of our webcasting for alumni, parents and friends,” explained Habershaw. "It is just another step in our efforts to connect the outside community with our student athletes and coaches, providing them access to the quality programs and people we have at Salve Regina.”

Salve Regina started streaming athletic events during the 2011-12 season and viewers then were limited to watching a game live in a separate window on their computers. With its Ustream.tv channels embedded in PrestoSports' PrimeTime, video of a live game will now be played on a page which will also include interactive live statistics, allowing fans to get all of their information for a game in a single web browser window. Viewers will still have the option to click a “full screen” view of a game. Along with the live feed, Seahawk fans have the added ability to watch archived recordings of a game.

Seahawk fans can watch and listen to all the action on the free Front Row app, available for all mobile devices.

With the latest desktop software version of Producer Pro, Habershaw says Seahawk fans will once again experience such features as instant replay, scoreboard graphics, and player bio graphics. With Ustream's mobile apps for iOS and Android devices, Salve Regina has scheduled live streams for events never before covered including men's and women's cross country, sailing, and women's track and field.

Both Habershaw and assistant sports information director Andrew Pezzelli add live play-by-play audio to the majority of their video webcasts, allowing Seahawk fans to browse other content while listening to the broadcast. Local radio legend Bobb Angel calls the Seahawk football games from Gaudet Field in Middletown, R.I., and has signed on to cover some road games for Salve Regina as well, including at U.S. Coast Guard Academy (Sept. 26) and at defending New England Football Conference (NEFC) champion MIT (Oct. 31). His audio is simulcast on WADK-AM 1540 as well as on the Seahawk video streams for football along with several basketball, baseball, and softball contests.

Season-opening broadcasts for fall sports include:

Tue., Sep. 1 (12 p.m.) - Salve Regina v. Babson (women's tennis)
Tue., Sep. 1 (3 p.m.) - Salve Regina v. UMass Boston (men's soccer)
Thu., Sep. 3 (5 p.m.) - Salve Regina v. UMass Dartmouth (field hockey)
Sat., Sep. 5 (10 a.m.) - Salve Regina v. Rhode Island Col. (women's volleyball)
Sat., Sep. 5 (12 p.m.) - Salve Regina v. Worcester St. (football)
Sat., Sep. 5 (1 p.m.) - Salve Regina v. Rivier (women's soccer)

"Over the last two years we've added equipment for remote broadcasts with desktop or laptop computer setups," continued Habershaw. "Hard-wired internet connections at Rodgers Recreation Center (basketball, volleyball) and Portsmouth Abbey (ice hockey) produce the best video quality for the viewer, while our Mi-Fi card allows us to stream from every other venue."

Habershaw has traveled to Florida each of the last two spring breaks to bring Seahawk fans softball (Orlando) and baseball (Ft. Myers) action. Also last spring, Pezzelli and then senior Christian Lawber broadcast from Burrillville, R.I., for the 2015 ECAC Northeast men's ice hockey championship game. The same duo called the exciting five-run rally in the top of the ninth inning on May 10 from Reynolds Field as the Salve Regina baseball team captured the ECAC New England Division III Championship, 7-3, against Framingham State.