Isp Sports Information
IMG College, is a sports marketing company formed from the acquisition of Host Communications in 2007 and ISP Sports in 2010.
ISP Sports was founded in 1992 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina providing sports marketing and broadcast services for collegiate athletics across the United States. In addition to the Winston-Salem headquarters, the company operates more than 40 regional offices. Host Communications was founded in 1974 and created one of the first college sports multimedia contracts with its creation of a radio network for the University of Kentucky.[1]
The IMG College Network consists of nearly 800 radio affiliates airing primarily football and men's basketball games along with weekly call-in coaches' shows. The media network also includes over 100 television stations airing weekly half hour coaches' shows for most of the universities represented by the company.
logo as ISP SportsAs of December, 2010, ISP Sports is now a part of IMG Worldwide, a talent- and entertainment-management company that represents stars including Tiger Woods and Roger Federer, is buying ISP, a collegiate-sports marketing firm. IMG will represents more than 70 of the most popular college-sports programs in the country, institutions including the University of Alabama, Duke University, Ohio State University, Michigan, and Notre Dame. [2]
Markets and schools
At the conference level, ISP represents the ACC, Big East, Conference USA, MAC and Sun Belt[3] and also individually represents schools from the SEC as well as the FedEx Orange Bowl and Meineke Car Care Bowl.[4] The company also maintains the ISP Sports Academy, a professional development initiative for ISP employees in Atlanta, Georgia.
ISP represents the following universities:[5]
- Akron
- Alabama
- Appalachian State
- Arizona State
- Arkansas
- Auburn
- Baylor
- Boston College
- BYU
- California
- Clemson
- Drake
- Duke
- East Carolina
- Elon
- Florida State
- Georgia
- Georgia State
- Georgia Tech
- Houston
- Kent State
- Marshall
- Miami (Fla.)
- Miami (Ohio)
- Morehead State
- Nebraska-Omaha
- North Carolina-Greensboro
- Northern Illinois
- Notre Dame (Football only)
- Ohio
- Pittsburgh
- Richmond
- South Carolina
- Southern Mississippi
- Syracuse
- TCU
- Troy
- UAB
- UCF
- UCLA
- UNLV
- USF
- UTEP
- Valparaiso
- Vanderbilt
- Villanova
- Virginia Tech
- Wake Forest
- Washington
- Washington State
References
- ^ IMG College
- ^ Futterman, Matthew (2010-07-29). "IMG Moves Further Into School Sports". The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704895004575395532930536888.html?mod=googlenews_wsj.
- ^ "Partners:Conferences". ISP Sports. http://www.ispsports.com/partners.cfm?cat=2. Retrieved 2008-02-07.
- ^ "Partners:Conferences". ISP Sports. http://www.ispsports.com/partners.cfm?cat=3. Retrieved 2008-02-07.
- ^ "Partners:Universities". ISP Sports. http://www.ispsports.com/partners.cfm?cat=1. Retrieved 2008-02-07.
See also
Categories:
- Sports radio in the United States
- Companies based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Akron Zips
- Houston Cougars
- Virginia Tech Hokies
- Virginia Tech Radio Network
- Notre Dame Fighting Irish football broadcasters
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