NEW YORK, April 21, 2003 CSTV: College Sports Television (www.cstv.com), with assistance from the American Volleyball Coaches Association, will present CSTV Primetime: Volleyball Championship Saturday on April 26, featuring live telecasts of the championships of the three premier menÌs volleyball conferences: the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA), Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA) and Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF). College Sports Television will also televise live the MPSF conference tournament semi-finals Thursday, April 24, starting at 8 p.m. ET

ÏCSTV Primetime: Volleyball Championship SaturdayÓ commences at 5 p.m. ET with CSTV Primetime, a look around college sports with news and highlights followed by a live preview of the eveningÌs volleyball championship action originating from CSTVÌs new broadcast facility at Chelsea Piers in New York City. The EIVA championship will air at 6 p.m. ET, followed by the MIVA championship at 8:15 p.m. ET, with the MPSF championship starting at 10:30 p.m. ET. The three conference champions, along with one wild card, will advance to the 2003 NCAA MenÌs Volleyball Championship May 1-3 in Long Beach, Ca.

Jason Knapp and Russ Rose will call the action from the EIVA title match, Kevin Eschenfelder and Leandra Reilly will handle the MIVA championship, and Randy Rosenbloom and Chris McLachlin will work the MPSF match.

The three conferences boast USA Today/AVCA Division I-II MenÌs Volleyball Coaches Poll Top 15 schools Pepperdine, HawaiÌi, Brigham Young, Lewis, UC Irvine, Pacific, Long Beach State, Penn State, Ball State and Ohio State, as well as other nationally ranked teams.

ÏCSTV will provide unprecedented national exposure this week for the Îbest of the bestÌ in menÌs volleyball,Ó said Chris Bevilacqua, co-founder and executive vice president, College Sports Television. ÏWe are committed to presenting the live action and behind-the-scenes stories that make college sports so compelling, and these championships are indicative of that commitment.Ó

College Sports Television has long-term programming and marketing agreements with 27 Division I athletic conferences, including the Atlantic 10, Big East, Big Sky, Big Ten, Big 12, Big West, Conference USA, Ivy League, Mountain West, Sun Belt, WAC and West Coast. The network will televise live regular season and championship events across a broad spectrum of men's and women's college sports, including football, basketball, baseball, soccer, ice hockey and lacrosse. Dedicated to offering the widest variety of college athletics, College Sports Television will provide the most in-depth sports coverage of 1,200 universities and colleges involving 360,000 student-athletes across all of the major conferences at every level of college sports.

College Sports Television was co-founded by President/CEO Brian Bedol, Chairman Stephen Greenberg and Executive Vice President Chris Bevilacqua. Bedol and Greenberg co-founded Classic Sports Network, which they sold to ESPN and which is now ESPN Classic. Bevilacqua is a former senior executive with Nike Inc., where he headed the companyÌs successful foray into the college market. For more information on College Sports Television, log on to www.cstv.com.