2009-10 NCAA Broadcast Manual

To apply for Internet "Video" streaming rights, please submit a written document to the NCAA for approval. Instructions and a sample letter can be found by clicking here. 

If you are a member institution and contract your Official Athletic Site services through the CBS College Sports Network, you may contact your CBS College representative to inquire about video streaming in lieu of requesting the rights through the NCAA.  The NCAA will automatically approve all video streaming requests through CBS College Sports Network Web sites based on an agreement with CBS College Sports and NCAA.com to stream those games through the NCAA.com video player. 

To apply for Internet " Radio" streaming rights, please submit the online form found at the following Web address: http://web1.ncaa.org/radioRights/policy.html. Questions may be directed to IMG College (Mike Dodson, mike.dodson@imgworld.com, 859/226-4390).  For more information, click here.

To apply for " Television" broadcast rights.  If CBS and/or ESPN do not activate their rights to any round in NCAA championship competition, the NCAA has the right to sell these rights for local syndication.  A rights fee will be charged for these events. Local campus and/or non-commercial television stations may have the rights fee waived. Any station selling commercials, selling or airing billboards, sponsors, in-game graphic sponsors, underwriters or phone pledges must pay the NCAA a minimum of $1,000 (One Thousand Dollars) per game for rights fees. Rights fees may vary from championship to championship.  For more information, click here.

Note: CBS maintained its right to sell local rights to its 66 championships. Contact Katie Kiefner (khkiefner@cbs.com or 212/975-7759) at CBS to obtain the rights of one of these championships. The rights not owned by CBS or activated by ESPN may be obtained through the NCAA. Contact Chris Fitzpatrick, associate director for broadcasting (cfitzpatrick@ncaa.org or 317/917-6047) if you are interested in obtaining those rights. For a complete breakdown of the 88 championships, click here. 

For Web site approval, submit a link to Durenka Robie, coordinator for corporate and broadcast alliances, at drobie@ncaa.org.  For guidelines, click here.

Click here for information about obtaining NCAA championship footage or a game for institutional use.

For fans to request complete games of any championship game that has been broadcast on television , please visit http://www.ncaaondemand.com/ to place your order.

Internet Live Statistics

The NCAA reserves the right to deny any entity from producing live statistics for NCAA championship play.In the event the NCAA takes on the responsibility of producing a live statistical representation from an NCAA championship event, no other entity will be permitted to do so. Live statistics are considered a protected right that has been granted to CBS as part of a bundled rights agreement, referenced above.  For clarification purposes, a live statistical representation includes play-by-play, score updates, shot charts, updated box scores, photos with captions, etc.

In the event the NCAA, through CBS, does not produce live statistics for a specific championship, the host institution is given priority to produce exclusive live statistics. The host institution will be given the same exclusivity the NCAA would reserve for CBS in such an instance.

Once it is determined that neither the NCAA, nor the host institution, plan to exercise their exclusive rights, the ability to produce live statistics - on a non-exclusive basis - will be granted to each participating school. The definition of a participating school constitutes a school playing in the same event at a specific site.

In each case, no commercial advertising is permitted within the live statistics window. Any questions pertaining to live statistics should be sent to Jeramy Michiaels, NCAA associate director for broadcasting (jmichiaels@ncaa.org).

Championships Results Reporting

The host sports information director, media coordinator or designee is responsible for reporting official championship results to the Association's Web site, http://www.ncaa.com/. Immediately following the conclusion of each championship contest or session, please forward information that specifies the division, sport, round, date, official results and provide a brief game/event summary with photos (if available) to updates@ncaa.com 

The following method should be used to report a posting:

Institutions should send all information in the following manner:

• E-mail the information to updates@ncaa.com.
• Specify the division, sport, round and region in the subject area.
• Paste the text (official results, including date of competition, round, etc.) directly into the message box.
• Send the MS Word document or Windows Notepad text document as an attachment.
• Please convert photos to JPEG format and attach to e-mail.
• Include official box score or event results in HTML format or in an MS Word document.