CBS SPORTS NETWORK AND CBSSPORTS.COM PRESENT COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S NATIONAL SIGNING DAY
Wall-to-Wall Content Spread Across Television, Online, and Mobile Platforms Featuring Recruiting Expert Tom Lemming
Ron Zook and Houston Nutt In Studio to Offer Insight and Analysis
February 1, 2013 -- CBS SPORTS NETWORK, CBSSPORTS.COM, MAXPREPS.COM, and the CBSSPORTS.COM COLLEGE NETWORK are providing fans extensive coverage across screens of college football's annual National Signing Day on Wednesday, Feb. 6. CBS Sports Network offers five-and-a-half hours of live programming featuring recruiting expert Tom Lemming and analysts Ron Zook and Houston Nutt, while CBSSports.com provides around-the-clock coverage featuring college football insider Bruce Feldman. In addition, CBS Sports Network's coverage includes the 2013 International Bowl, featuring the United States Under-19 national team against the IFAF (International Federation of American Football) World Team.
CBS SPORTS NATIONAL SIGNING DAY presented by American Family Insurance kicks off with a one-hour special (12:00 NOON-1:00 PM, ET) on CBS Sports Network featuring host Adam Zucker, Nutt, Zook and Lemming, who is recognized as the country's leading expert on college football recruiting and high school talent. Aaron Taylor reports from the International Bowl in Austin, Texas where he will interview many of the nation's elite prep players. Coverage continues with a three-hour program (4:00-7:00 PM, ET) and concludes with a recap of all the day's news at 12:00 MIDNIGHT, ET.
In addition, the new iPhone version will feature live streaming of games and events available on CBSSports.com, including the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament Semifinals and Championship on Saturday and Sunday, March 17-18.
The show also features interviews with college coaches including Urban Meyer (Ohio State), Bill O'Brien (Penn State), Brady Hoke (Michigan), James Franklin (Vanderbilt), Chris Petersen (Boise State), Dan Mullen (Mississippi State), June Jones (SMU) and Kyle Flood (Rutgers), as well as in-depth analysis of elite recruits and recruiting classes, live cut-ins to player commitment press conferences, conference breakdowns and a special look at the top high school juniors.
CBSSports.com's complete coverage of National Signing Day, located at www.cbssports.com/signingday includes breaking news stories, live and on-demand video and in-depth analysis by Feldman and a host of other recruiting experts. CBSSports.com will track the commitments and signings of all players heading to NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) programs, with a focus on the CBS Sports Top 100 list, and feature player and recruiting class rankings and grades.
Leading the day's coverage on CBSSports.com will be NATIONAL SIGNING DAY LIVE, eight-straight hours (9:00 AM-5:00 PM, ET) of live reporting and instant analysis of the latest commitments, along with rankings, player features, and more. Hosted by Kevin Corke and including appearances by Feldman, Jeremy Fowler, and other recruiting experts, NATIONAL SIGNING DAY LIVE will feature live check-ins from college campuses across the country, interviews with coaches, breaking news updates and analysis, profiles on the top five players at each position, and team and conference rankings.
CBSSports.com will also feature a live-blog style stream of headlines that will be sortable by team or conference and will include breaking news, decommitment lists, official signee lists, photo galleries, and more. Fans can get in on the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #NSDonCBS.
Comprehensive Signing Day content from MaxPreps.com, the high school sports leader and a CBSSports.com site, will feature real-time news updates, expert analysis, video, and on-site reporting and local insight from writers and editors at schools and events around the country. MaxPreps.com will also look ahead with analysis of the next wave of talent from the Classes of 2014 and 2015.
In addition, the over 125 official athletic school sites produced by the CBSSports.com College Network will offer live streaming press conferences and exclusive on-demand video content, with various in-depth features and individual recruit highlight packages when available. The CBSSports.com College Network produces the official athletic site for 49 of the 68 (72%) schools from the Big 6 conferences. The network finished the 2012 football season with 17 schools in the final AP Top 25 - including for the fourth consecutive year, the national champion (Alabama; rolltide.com).
Along with Alabama, the CBSSports.com College Network includes other top programs such as Michigan (MGoBlue.com), Florida State (seminoles.com), Notre Dame (und.com), Oklahoma (soonersports.com), Texas (texassports.com), Ohio State (ohiostatebuckeyes.com), Southern California (usctrojans.com), and Georgia (georgiadogs.com) The National Signing Day online video content can be accessed through each individual school's All-Access broadband product, where applicable.
CBSSports.com also will feature content from 247Sports.com as well as insight from its recruiting experts.
Media Contacts
Dan Sabreen 212.975.5936 dsabreen@cbs.com
Annie Rohrs 646-472-3961 annie.rohrs@cbsinteractive.com
Mariel Brady 212-975-5373 mariel.brady@cbs.com