BURLINGTON, Vt. -- America East On Campus, the conference's half hour magazine show that looks at what's happening around America East on the playing field, in the classroom and in the community, returns for a seventh season and will hit air in HD for the first time in 2012. This year's debut episode will air on Saturday, Jan. 14 at 2 p.m. on Comcast SportsNet throughout New England with subsequent airings on CSN and the Mid Atlantic Sports Network (MASN).
The season debut is set at University of Vermont, where host Eric Frede mic'd up Vermont men's basketball coach John Becker and spent the day with the first-year Catamount mentor. The show also takes an in-depth look at men's and women's basketball as conference season wraps up its second week. Frede sat down with several of America East's head coaches and had them take stock of their programs at the midway point of the season.
Frede also visited with new America East Commissioner Amy Huchthausen and asked her about her first few months on the job. The episode wraps up with a look back at the fall season, which produced the league's first women's soccer NCAA win since 2005, the third-best conference field hockey RPI in the nation and 11 All-Americans.
America East On Campus is produced by Cod Rock Media of Kittery, Maine, which is owned by Frede and Dan Hannigan. Four original episodes will be produced and distributed this year. Comcast SportNet in New England will debut all four episodes, while several re-airings will also air on the network. MASN, located in the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area, will also carry the show, as will Time Warner Cable in New York.
The show will also be available in the All-Access section of AmericaEast.com and on the conference's YouTube page following the debut airing. IPhone and Android users with the America East On the Go premium app can also watch the show on those devices.
America East On Campus Air Dates
Episode 1
Sat., Jan. 14, 2 p.m. (CSN NE)
Sun., Jan. 15, 12 p.m. (CSN NE)
Sun., Jan. 15, 2:30 p.m. (MASN)
Mon., Jan. 16, 12:30 p.m. (MASN)
Episode 2
Sat., Jan. 28, 7 p.m. (CSN NE)
Sun., Jan. 29, 2 p.m. (CSN NE)
Sun., Jan. 29, 2:30 p.m. (MASN)
Mon., Jan. 30, 12:30 p.m. (MASN)
*Air Dates Will Be Added. Visit America East's TV Schedule for the most up-to-date schedule.