free the stream

July 23, 2015
ORONO, Maine -- The University of Maine athletic department is proud to announce that it will offer free live video streams of all its home events during the 2015-16 season.

Black Bear fans who formerly had to pay for men's ice hockey, football and women's ice hockey video streams online will now have the benefit of watching all of the exciting Black Bear home events free of charge.

"We have Black Bear fans in every state of the country as well as Canada and overseas," said UMaine Director of Athletics Karlton Creech. "Free streaming is one way for us to thank them for continuing to support our student-athletes and University of Maine Athletics. We are thrilled to share the excitement of home games with all of Black Bear Nation and hope it will lead to further support at our games."

Fans interested in viewing sports outside of ice hockey and football will continue to have free access to UMaine's America East teams through AmericaEast.TV.

UMaine football hosts Rhode Island in its home opener on Sept. 26. Along with UMaine's free stream, American Sports Network will also broadcast the game. Men's Ice Hockey opens its action at Alfond Arena on Oct. 23 when it hosts New Brunswick while the women's ice hockey team hosts defending Hockey East champion Boston University in its home opener on Oct. 4.

"Wherever you go, wherever you are, Maine Hockey and the excitement of Alfond Arena is just a click away!" commented UMaine men's ice hockey head coach Red Gendron.

-UMaine-

The wave ofthe future. But many recent articles suggest that your internet service price will be rising. Surprise, Surprise.

Tom in Vero

Sports marketers can stop calling every team's fans a "Nation" any day now, thanks.

RichH
Sports marketers can stop calling every team's fans a "Nation" any day now, thanks.

There is only one nation, and that is Whiner Nation.

Trotsky

RichH
Sports marketers can stop calling every team's fans a "Nation" any day now, thanks.

There is only one nation, and that is Whiner Nation.

Hot stuff!

RichH
Sports marketers can stop calling every team's fans a "Nation" any day now, thanks.

+1.

FWIW, having unfortunately witnessed first-hand the Red Sox' ascent to baseball's upper-eschelon over the past decade and a half, long-time Sox fans hate the pink hat-wearing, band wagon-riding, Red Sox Nation crap. I smile inside whenever I hear one of them bitch about it.

I, for one, love it every time someone refers to the Evil Empire. It's good to be the emperor.

The revenue stream must be small relative to the cost of mounting the production. Perhaps the payment plan adds to the cost of webcasting the event more than comes in as revenue.

Might be different at a Big Ten or SEC school, especially if the streaming includes Court TV.