BCS On Demand
Can’t get enough college football?
College football fans can preorder DVD copies of the on-air broadcasts of BCS games or can download full-length or condensed versions, as well as highlight packages and preview shows.
Fort Lauderdale-based Collegiate Images has licensed the DVD rights of four of five BCS games to Team Marketing, which produces sports-related home videos, in partnership with Lulu, a digital publishing marketplace. DVDs of the Fox Sports broadcasts and extra features start with the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl tonight and also include the FedEx Orange Bowl on Tuesday, the Allstate Sugar Bowl on Wednesday, and the Tostitos BCS National Championship game on Jan. 8.
The DVDs, which are $25 apiece, will be available at retail in mid-February or can be ordered at www.bcsfootball.org.
Fans also have the option of downloading those four BCS games and the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic, and highlight and preview packages at a variety of Web sites, thanks to a partnership between Fox Sports and the BCS.
Downloads are available at sites including foxsports.com; direct2drive.com; Amazon’s Unbox, AOL Video, CinemaNow and Instant Media.
Most games will be available for download within 24 hours of the end of the game. The condensed versions of games, or “Short-Cuts,” reduce the games into 20-minute versions. Short-Cuts and highlight programs are $1.99 with the full-length games costing $2.99. Some sites offer each game along with previews and highlights for $6.99. The full package of all the bowl games, previews and highlights costs $19.99.
CRAIG DAVIS In more than 33 years at the Sun Sentinel, Craig Davis has written about a wide variety of sports topics from baseball to yachting, fishing to triathlons, and also worked as a copy editor and page designer. Recently he reported on local sports, including running, swimming, cycling, equestrian and beach volleyball. He enjoys sports as a participant as well as a spectator, is active in the South Florida running scene plays in the curling club at Saveology Iceplex. This blog offers a glimpse at the business side of sports in the interest of enhancing enjoyment of the games and sporting options as a spectator as well as a participant.
