The AVP League will take a major step in placing its new team-oriented product in entrance of mainstream sports activities followers with a two-hour telecast Sunday night on cable TV CBS Sports activities Community.
The present will air matches from Week 4 of the League in suburban Austin, Texas, on the 8,700-seat H-E-B Middle at Cedar Park. The AVP on Saturday introduced over its social media platforms that an settlement had been reached with CBS Sports activities that may put its League on CBSSN each Sunday by the completion of the League’s common season and the one-weekend playoffs.
Competing this weekend are the Austin Aces (2-2), Palm Seashore Ardour (1-3), LA Launch (1-3) and Brooklyn Blaze (1-3).
CBSSN will air the AVP League from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Japanese on Sunday in a tape-delayed situation. The competitors on the H-E-B Middle is scheduled to conclude round an hour earlier than the present ends.
Calling the motion from Austin will probably be versatile Dain Blanton, charismatic latest ex-pro Casey Patterson and the succesful Wealthy Lambourne, a former indoor USA Olympic gold medalist and high-profile seashore coach who has labored as an announcer for the AVP and VBTV.
Blanton, who was a part of NBC’s crew on the Paris Olympics, brings an impeccable diploma of saying professionalism to the telecast, in addition to first-hand information of the game as an Olympic gold medalist and because the coach of USC’s powerhouse seashore program that has received the final 4 NCAA championships.
The producers will probably be Echo Leisure, the AVP’s longtime media companion. A rotating solid of announcers that may embrace AVP regulars Kevin Barnett and Camry Irwin is probably going in subsequent weeks.
The 2-hour telecast on Sunday will present the late recreation from Saturday evening between the Aces and Ardour, which incorporates the showdown between U.S. Olympians Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss of the Aces towards Canadian Olympic silver medalists Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson of the Ardour. The present additionally may embrace a spotlight bundle from the opposite League video games, time allowing.
CBSSN ought to be acquainted to volleyball followers because it telecast a bundle of regular-season matches and the playoffs of the first-year indoor Professional Volleyball Federation this spring.
The TV/streaming image from Austin will seem like this: The primary recreation on Saturday between the Blaze and Launch will probably be streamed reside on the Bally Dwell app and ballylive.com. The later Aces-Ardour recreation will air solely on CBSSN. The 2 video games on Sunday will probably be archived on the AVP’s free YouTube channel after the completion of the nationwide telecast.
Including new followers to a extremely invested base that has diminished during the last decade or so was a serious motivating issue within the AVP’s launching its League sequence this fall, in hopes that its workforce dynamic might be extra acquainted to informal viewers. The primary three weeks of the League doubtless have been seen by die-hards, with the video games being streamed reside on Bally Dwell app and matches archived on the AVP YouTube Channel. The biggest variety of cumulative views logged for a video of any League match on the YouTube Channel is 22,000, that coming in Week 1.
In the meantime, the AVP gained hundreds of potential new followers when the Manhattan Seashore Open finals on the printed Ion channel had a complete common viewership of 299,000 and the title matches from the Chicago Heritage Sequence occasion have been watched by a median of 215,000 on the over-the-air CW Community.
