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V CAST to stream lesser NCAA bowl games on smaller screens

By Tim Conneally, BetaNews

December 18, 2007, 3:58 PM

ESPN, CBS, and Fox will be bringing full-length NCAA football bowl games to Verizon Wireless VCAST TV this month and next. Now fans can argue over who's really #1 on their small screens just as easily as on the big ones.

This morning, Verizon Wireless announced they will be providing access to college bowl games televised by ESPN Mobile TV, CBS Mobile and Fox Mobile Stations to V CAST TV, starting later this month.

A total of 24 bowl games will be broadcast to V CAST-equipped phones in their entirety. Fans will be able to tune into a number of the more minor bowl games broadcast by Fox, CBS, or ESPN, including the Alamo Bowl on December 29 and the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day.

So if you've ever had a hankering to watch live coverage of, say, the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl (December 20, Utah vs. Navy), the Roady's Humanitarian Bowl (December 31, Georgia Tech vs. Fresno State), or watch last year's surprise Fiesta Bowl champion Boise State go against East Carolina (Dec. 23) in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl, all on a screen about the size of an air mail stamp, then now's your opportunity.

But the big bowls are excluded from VZW's and partner Qualcomm's MediaFLO experiment this time, which means the BCS championship bowls are out of the picture. Among the games not broadcast over the Verizon network are the Texas Bowl (TCU vs. Houston), the Insight Bowl (Indiana vs. Oklahoma State), Capitol One Bowl (Michigan vs. Florida), the Rose Bowl (USC vs. Illinois), and the all-important BCS Championship on January 7 featuring Ohio State and LSU.

Launched in 20 cities earlier this year, Verizon Wireless' V CAST has matured considerably, minor bowl games notwithstanding. It now finds support in almost 50 cities, and compatibility from double the amount of handsets available at launch. VZW has even announced V CAST TV's first 24/7 network: ESPN Mobile.

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By cousinkix1953

posted Dec 19, 2007 - 5:21 AM

Really! It's about time too.

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By drumcat

posted Dec 18, 2007 - 4:56 PM

Oh yay... let's watch a relic of the 1930's on a screen reminiscent of the 1950's. Yay.

College football is a laughable system of wasted games. I hope more people boycott the bowls, and make a playoff a reality.

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