MEDIA BROADCAST
of
Bay Area Women's College Hoops

Internet Sources

The internet web site Total Sports offers "TotalCasts" of many college games. (See their Women's Basketball page, and click the "Live Games" link in the lower left.) In one trial (12/20/99, SCU v. GWU) we found this service very unsatisfactory. What you are supposed to get is a window in which the events of the game are updated as they happen, every few seconds. The TotalCast window offers some appealing features, such as a running display of timeouts remaining per team and the state of the possession arrow, player stats, and even a floor diagram showing the locations of made shots and rebounds. The value of all this is pretty well nullified by the sad fact that the window did not update at all for many long minutes. Eventually we found we could get an update by paging backward, forward, and launching a new TotalCast, but that display was also good for only one update and then stopped. A quarter of the window is taken up with animated advertisements so you have something to watch while waiting for updates that don't come.

USA Today operates a sports scoreboard page that, although simple, works pretty reliably. It shows games scheduled in every league, and updates their scores every couple of minutes. Sometimes, however, it doesn't list all the games. Then you can turn to the CNN/SI women's basketball scoreboard which, when it works, lets you show the scores of scheduled games in selected leagues. Usually you can find a game on one or the other of these sites, so you can check the progress periodically, or get the final scores of games played earlier.

Many regional AM radio sports stations put their signal on the internet in RealAudio; and major media outlets like CNN/Sports Illustrated have massive web presences. For a complete list, check the Yahoo Sports Media list. (For college radio on the internet, see below.)

Television

A few of the women's games are broadcast on cable TV, including BayTV, Fox Sports Bay Area, and Fox Sports Net. This schedule changes often throughout the year. We will update the schedule tables as we learn more.

Campus Radio

Some of the schools have campus radio stations that broadcast women's basketball games:

Cal

Cal's KALX broadcasts all Cal women's home games, all PAC-10 road games, and other games that are within driving distance of Berkeley, for example SCU or Fresno State.

SCU

According to the SCU athletic media person, there's no radio coverage of the Bronco's women's games. However, one reader claims to have heard one last year, so we include the KSCU info below just in case.

SJSU

The SJSU athletic department told us before the season that there would be no radio coverage of the Spartan women's games. However, as of 11/20, the KSJS web page says they plan to broadcast some of these games, and we've updated our schedule accordingly.

St. Mary's

Most St. Mary's games will be carried on the St Mary's campus station, KSMC. Certain big games -- the preseason NIT games, the 12/27 game with Stanford, and the WCC tournament games, are to be carried on Concord's KATD, AM 990.

Stanford

Stanford's KZSU broadcasts all Cardinal women's games except when a men's game starts first and overlaps the women's game; then they go to the women's game after the men's finishes. Also, KZSU broadcasts Palo Alto city council meetings which sometimes preempt sports broadcasts. However, the sports broadcast is always available on the internet -- see the web page.

USF

KUSF broadcasts Lady Dons home games and WCC away games. See the web page for a link to their schedule page.

Campus Stations on the Web

School	Station	Frequency	Station's Web Page	Webcast Link
USF	KUSF	90.3	http://web.usfca.edu/kusf/	schedule page with RealAudio links
Stanford	KZSU	90.1	http://www-kzsu.stanford.edu/	(RealAudio)
Cal	KALX	90.7	http://kalx.berkeley.edu	(RealAudio)
SCU	KSCU	103.1	http://www.kscu103.com/	(not currently active)
SMC	KSMC	89.5	http://fermat.stmarys-ca.edu/~ksmc/	(RealAudio)
SMC	KATD	990	http://www.katd.com/ (minimal)	(none)
SJSU	KSJS	90.5	http://www.ksjs.org	(click on the link "audio only")

Internet Radio

The typical campus station has a limited range. For example, Stanford's KZSU can be heard only north of Sunnyvale, KSJS, only south of Sunnyvale, and KSCU, only in Sunnyvale. However, the internet makes every station's reach worldwide! All the campus stations put their signals on the net as streaming audio. The stations use different technologies, however.

Although listening to a streaming audio signal ought to be simple, it is often rather fraught. Four of the stations use the RealAudio format, but to be able to receive it, you need to install the latest version of RealPlayer. It's free, and works with Netscape 4.x and Internet Explorer. When you have it, you should be able to click on the "(RealAudio)" links above to automatically open RealPlayer and receive the station's current signal. If that doesn't work, it might be that our link is out of date. Go to the station's web page and follow links to their internet broadcast. If RealPlayer opens for you, you still might not hear any sound. For example, KUSF's broadcast server is frequently overloaded and refuses your connection.

KSCU doesn't use RealAudio but rather WebRadio, which doesn't work on a Mac (so we couldn't test it), and in any event doesn't seem to be broadcasting as of 11/19. KSJS doesn't use RealAudio but rather a Java Applet which, altho it loads and runs on our systems, has never produced any sound for us. Persist; this is hi-tech stuff being maintained by amateurs...