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| It was about this time that then-athletic director Frank Rienzo began to talk about a day in the future when colleges would be able to sell season tickets and game-day tickets to athletic contests which would be shown on pay-per-view cable TV. Well, Frank, you were right. Some 20+ years later, we are just about there. The cable networks, which once offered great promise for this concept, turned out to be almost as stodgy and slow to adapt as their forebears, the broadcast networks. However, the internet came along in time to help democratize this (r)evolution of content distribution. Here on the Hilltop, Georgetown athletics works with College Sports Television (CSTV) to provide a range of internet services which now include hosting of the official Hoya website, online sales of game tickets, Hoya gear, and yes, live video feeds of games as well as on-demand feeds of past games. Cable and broadcast coverage takes most of the current men's basketball games out of the available line-up on the live internet package. That still leaves all the home contests for women's hoops, men's and women's lacrosse, volleyball, football, and men's and women's soccer. They are all available on All-Access, the name CSTV gives to its streaming video service for Hoya games. And if you just need more Hoya hoops, archived games of men's games are available as well. Hoya fans can subscribe for the entire year for all available games, or on a month-by-month basis, or on a game-by-game basis. For younger Hoya fans, perhaps this development is something expected, even taken for granted. For someone like me, it is nothing short of astounding. And in another generation from now, the coverage and quality will be even better. I can't wait.
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