{"id":14877,"date":"2006-01-04T13:56:45","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T18:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=14877"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:55:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:55:38","slug":"bball-webcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2006\/01\/04\/bball-webcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates basketball set to be webcast on BatesCast.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bates College Director of Athletics Suzanne Coffey announces that the college will sponsor its first-ever audio webcasts of athletic contests, beginning with the men\u2019s basketball team\u2019s home game against Colby College on Saturday, Jan. 7.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWorking in collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/d3cast.com\">D3Cast.com<\/a>, Bates will offer live Internet broadcasts of a handful of basketball games this season, with an eye on later adding other Bates teams and video components to the college\u2019s webcast offerings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very excited to enter a new phase of athletic communications, with technology that will bring students, parents and alumni closer to games at Bates, no matter where they are in the world,\u201d said Coffey. \u201cWe\u2019re pleased to be among the first NESCAC schools to offer this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also to be webcast, along with the Jan. 7 Colby game at 3 p.m., will be the Bates women\u2019s basketball team\u2019s home games against Bowdoin on Jan. 13 at 7 p.m. and vs. Colby on Jan. 14 at 3 p.m.; and the men\u2019s basketball team\u2019s home games vs. Middlebury on Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. and vs. Williams on Jan. 21 at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Listeners who wish to tune in to the webcasts can go to <a href=\"http:\/\/BatesCast.com\">BatesCast.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted to have Bates become part of the D3Cast network,\u201d said D3Cast president Steve Clay. \u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to showcasing one of the best college basketball gyms in New England in our first few webcasts, and we\u2019re sure that the BatesCast audience will be able to hear \u2013 and hopefully soon see \u2013 the excitement and pandemonium of an Alumni Gym game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bates senior Nathan Miley-Wills will host the webcasts, and will be joined in the booth by other students or faculty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s wonderful that this is student-initiated. Nate deserves a lot of credit, because he\u2019s the one who really jump-started the idea,\u201d Coffey said. \u201cI think this opens another avenue of opportunity for Bates students who are curious about sports broadcasting and other media.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates College Director of Athletics Suzanne Coffey announces that the college will sponsor its first-ever audio webcasts of athletic contests, beginning with the men\u2019s basketball team\u2019s home game against Colby College on Saturday, Jan. 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1263],"class_list":["post-14877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","tag-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93015,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14877\/revisions\/93015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}