CBS SPORTS NETWORK AND CBS INTERACTIVE PRESENT COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S NATIONAL SIGNING DAY
Wall-to-Wall Content Spread Across Television, Online, and Mobile Platforms
CBS Sports Network’s Coverage Features Recruiting Expert Tom Lemming
CBSSports.com Coverage Includes Recruiting Experts from 247Sports
January 31, 2014 -- CBS Sports Network, CBSSports.com, 247Sports, MaxPreps.com and CBS Interactive Advanced Media provide fans extensive coverage across all screens of college football's annual National Signing Day on Wednesday, Feb. 5. CBS Sports Network offers four-and-a-half hours of live programming featuring recruiting expert Tom Lemming and analysts Brian Jones and Houston Nutt, while CBSSports.com, 247Sports, and MaxPreps.com combine forces to deliver their most comprehensive and ambitious coverage ever of college football’s new recruits.
CBS SPORTS NATIONAL SIGNING DAY presented by American Family Insurance kicks off with a two-hour show (10:00 AM-12:00 NOON, ET) on CBS Sports Network featuring hosts Adam Zucker and Susannah Collins, as well as Nutt, Jones and Lemming, who is the country's leading college football recruiting expert. Coverage continues with another two-hour program (4:00-6:00 PM, ET) and concludes with a recap of all the day's news at 11:30 PM, ET.
The show also features interviews with college coaches from across the country including Brady Hoke (Michigan), James Franklin (Penn State), Brian Kelly (Notre Dame), Al Golden (Miami), Mike London (Virginia) 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 delivers a full-day streaming show, NATIONAL SIGNING DAY LIVE (9:00-5:00 PM, ET), from its studio in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The live show incorporates breaking news updates, player features, coach interviews, highlights, and in-depth analysis by college football insiders and recruiting experts. Host Adam Aizer will be joined by CBSSports.com’s Bruce Feldman and Jeremy Fowler and 247Sports’ Ryan Bartow and Steve Wiltfong.
In addition to NATIONAL SIGNING DAY LIVE, CBSSports.com features a library of on-demand video, a headline stream sortable by team and conference, top-10 rankings, social integration, and an interactive Ask the Experts feature. All Signing Day coverage will be available here: www.cbssports.com/signingday.
247Sports, the official recruiting partner of CBSSports.com, features its 247Sports Composite Rankings, breaking news, expert evaluation of recruits, on-demand video and photos.
MaxPreps.com, the online high school sports leader and a CBSSports.com site, provides live video coverage throughout the day, led by National Football Editor Stephen Spiewak, and will be on the ground at several announcement ceremonies providing live updates, photos and videos. With a brand-new site design, users can search by college and peruse professional photos and videos of incoming recruits when they were prep stars. MaxPreps will also feature the in-depth stats, stories, photos and videos that have made the site “America’s Source for High School Sports.”
In addition, the over 130 official athletic sites produced by CBS Interactive Advanced Media will offer live streaming coach press conferences and school press releases. CBS Interactive Advanced Media produces the official athletic sites for premium collegiate athletic brands, including the 2013 BCS National Champion Florida State (seminoles.com), as well as Auburn (auburntigers.com), the University of Alabama (rolltide.com), the University of Notre Dame (und.com), Ohio State (ohiostatebuckeyes.com), Southern California (usctrojans.com), Georgia (georgiadogs.com) and Michigan (MGoBlue.com).
National Signing Day coverage across CBS Interactive sites and 247Sports is sponsored by American Family Insurance and Jimmy John’s.
Fans can join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #NSDonCBS.
Media Contact
Dan Sabreen, 212-975-5936 dsabreen@cbs.com
Annie Rohrs, 646-472-3961 annie.rohrs@cbsinteractive.com
Mariel Brady, 212-975-5753 mariel.brady@cbs.com