NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE HITS THE ICE FOR THE 2010-11 SEASON BY GIVINGFANS AN 18 DAY FREE PREVIEW OF
Karachi: Hockey fans can get ready for an explosive 2010-2011 NHL season with an outstanding offer from cable systems around the country. Cable systems are offering digital customers a free preview ofNHL Center Icefrom October 7-24, 2010, announced package distributoriN DEMAND L.L.C.and theNational Hockey League ( NHL). The out-of-market subscription package is perfect for fans who live away from their favorite teams, for fantasy players, or those who don't want to miss a minute of action from across the League.
With NHL Center Ice, digital cable customers can check out up to 40 live out-of-market NHL games every week across 14 channels, including a wealth of enhancements to enrich the viewing experience. Customers who order the package by October 31, 2010 will save with the EarlyBird price, four installments of $42.95 each or a total of $171.80.*
2010 Free Package Enhancements include:
MULTI-SCREEN MOSAIC:This season fans continue to receive free enhancements, including the popular rotating mosaic of multiple screens. These show all live games in the package that are being played simultaneously around the League, along with score, time clock and channel location. The multi-screen mosaic can be found on the first channel of the system's package lineup.
SAME DAY REPLAYS:Returning this year are replays of same day games. Free to all NHL Center Ice subscribers, the package re-airs each current day's game beginning approximately one hour after live play ends so that fans can see games they might have missed. Each game will replay in its entirety, repeated continuously overnight and the next day, on the same channel, until the following day's live games begin.
DUAL FEEDS:Returning this year are the popular "dual-feed" telecasts, which deliver both home and away teams' announcers. Whenever possible, iN DEMAND delivers both the home and visiting team broadcasts of the same game so that fans can choose which telecast they want to watch.
STATS CHANNEL:Cable customers also receiveNHL CENTER ICE EXTRA TM , a live source for scores, statistics, game previews, game recaps and schedule information. This can be found on the second channel of the system's package lineup.
HD GAMES:The package also offers up to 12 games each week in high definition. HD availability varies by system.
Among the cable MSOs offering the package distributed by iN DEMANDthis year are:Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, BrightHouse Networks, Cablevision Systems, Bresnan Communications, CharterCommunications, Midcontinent, Verizon FiOS, plus a number of independent affiliates.
Throughout the regular season this year, NHL Center Ice will give fans a chance to watch over 1,000 live NHL games, plus select games from the first two rounds ofStanley Cup Playoffcompetition. *Starting Nov. 1, 2010, the regular season price is four installments of $44.95or a total of $179.80.
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