Men's Hockey | 10/16/2018 10:03:00 AM

ROCHESTER, NY – RIT and 13WHAM Rochester are teaming up for the second straight year to bring men's hockey broadcasts over the air for the 2018-19 season, as 17 regular season home games will be aired on CW Rochester.
 
In all, nine of the 17 games will be aired live, with seven (Nov. 9, Nov. 13, Nov. 30, Dec. 7, Jan. 25, Feb. 1, Feb. 22 and March 2) to be shown on tape delay. Saturday's contest on Oct. 20 vs. Colgate University will kick off CW Rochester's live broadcast schedule.
 
CW Rochester is broadcast over WHAM-TV's digital signal at channel 13.2. It can also be seen on DirecTV channel 14 and Spectrum cable channel 16. The station provides primetime programing from the CW network every weeknight and a variety of syndicated programming throughout the week.

As in years past, all games will be produced by RIT SportsZone LIVE. All nine live broadcasts will start with the pregame show at 6:30 p.m. and will feature highlights, live interviews, analysis and more, prior to face-off. Gene Battaglia and John DiTullio will be regular contributors to the program and will handle the play-by-play duties for RIT hockey broadcasts for an 11th consecutive season. Kevin Roche will host the pregame show for the third straight season.

RIT SportsZone debuted as a sports magazine program in 2002. The show, which highlighted all 23 of RIT's varsity sports, aired for 14 seasons, having won the College Emmy Award for "Best Newscast" in 2012. RIT SportsZone LIVE has also earned national acclaim since it began producing and broadcasting Tiger hockey.  SportsZone LIVE has been named Sports Video Group's "Best College Athletics Live Event" twice since 2008.