Press Release
Eugene, OR
December 14, 2007

KEZI 9 will provide college basketball fans in western Oregon the opportunity to watch the Oregon Ducks take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers live at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, December 15, 2007, station officials announced today. KEZI 9 will carry the basketball game as the Oregon Sports Network affiliate based in Eugene, Oregon.

“We’re always striving to serve local viewers and bring them coverage of our local teams,” said Mark Hatfield, KEZI 9 General Manager. “As the Oregon Sports Network affiliate, and the exclusive home of the Oregon Ducks, we’re extremely pleased and proud that we can bring this Duck basketball game to the fans.”

ABOUT CHAMBERS COMMUNICATIONS

Chambers Communications, headquartered in Eugene, Oregon, is the parent company of Oregon ABC affiliates KEZI 9 in Eugene, KDRV 12 in Medford, KDKF 31 in Klamath Falls and KOHD 51.1 in Bend; KEZI 9 has newsrooms in Corvallis, Eugene, Roseburg and Coos Bay; Chambers Sports, an Oregon-based regional sports company; Chambers Cable of Sunriver, Oregon; Chambers Productions, a full-service film and video production company based in Eugene, Oregon; and CMC.NET, an Oregon-based internet service provider. The 100,000-square-foot complex occupies 8 acres and provides creative production services for entertainment, industrial and advertising clients as well as production facilities for original specials, series and syndicated programming.

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Duck Sports News has learned that the Oregon-Arizona State game will be on Fox Sports Northwest with Fox Sports Arizona commentators.

The Oregon State game will be on ABC.

[UPDATE 5:38 p.m.]

Here is the press release from KEZI explaining the broadcasting situation.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

KEZI 9 WILL NOT TELEVISE THE ARIZONA STATE VS. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOOTBALL GAME

KEZI 9 WILL AIR THE OSU vs. USC GAME LIVE

(Eugene, OR – October 30, 2007) KEZI 9 will not carry the Arizona State University vs. University of Oregon football game on Saturday, November 3, 2007 as originally announced due to a loss of local exclusive television rights, station officials just announced.

KEZI 9 had earlier announced they would be carrying the Oregon Sports Network production of the ASU vs. Oregon football game at 3:30 p.m., adjusting normal ABC programming is order to carry this OSN telecast exclusively in its markets. KEZI 9 has been informed by the University of Oregon that Fox Sports Northwest has exercised its right with the Pac-10 Conference to televise the Fox Sports Arizona production of the ASU vs. UO game in the state of Oregon, the Pac-10 Conference has confirmed.

Due to Fox Sports Northwest exercising its right to televise the game in local markets, the University of Oregon cannot offer KEZI 9 market exclusivity for the game, which is a requirement for an OSN telecast. Therefore, KEZI 9 will not televise the ASU vs. UO game.

“It is very unfortunate we will not be able to carry the Duck game live this weekend,” said Mark Hatfield, KEZI 9 General Manager. “As the Oregon Sports Network affiliate, and the home of the Ducks, we always look for a way to bring the Oregon games to the thousands of Duck college football fans in our viewing area. Unfortunately, we’re not able to do that this week.”

KEZI 9 will instead provide coverage of the OSU vs. USC game that is scheduled to air live on Saturday at 5:00 p.m.

“We recognize the significance of this game to our viewers and are extremely pleased we can provide Beaver fans in our coverage area a chance to see the OSU vs. USC game,” said Hatfield.

ABOUT CHAMBERS COMMUNICATIONS

Chambers Communications, headquartered in Eugene, Oregon, is the parent company of Oregon ABC affiliates KEZI 9 in Eugene, KDRV 12 in Medford, KDKF 31 in Klamath Falls and KOHD 51.1 in Bend; KEZI 9 has newsrooms in Corvallis, Eugene, Roseburg and Coos Bay; Chambers Sports, an Oregon-based regional sports company; Chambers Cable of Sunriver, Oregon; Chambers Productions, a full-service film and video production company based in Eugene, Oregon; and CMC.NET, an Oregon-based internet service provider. The 100,000-square-foot complex occupies 8 acres and provides creative production services for entertainment, industrial and advertising clients as well as production facilities for original specials, series and syndicated programming.

[UPDATE 5:45 p.m.] This broadcast issue has been resolved. The UO-ASU game will be broadcast on FSN Northwest with FSN Arizona commentators at it’s scheduled time of 3:30 p.m. The OSU-USC game will air on ABC at 5:00 p.m.

It’s a Land of Confusion out there.

So, let’s make this as clear as possible right now.

Everything that you’ve heard or read up until this point about the broadcast of the Oregon and Oregon State games is in flux and subject to change.

Hopefully, we will have a definitive word by the end of today.

If you would like to follow what is currently being said, here you go:

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