  {"id":126402,"date":"2020-09-03T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=126402"},"modified":"2020-09-02T16:35:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T02:35:49","slug":"spectrum-athletics-broadcast-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/09\/03\/spectrum-athletics-broadcast-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>, Spectrum extend broadcast partnership of athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/manoa-athletics-biletnikoff-smart-2.jpg\" alt=\"Jared Smart\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-122831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/manoa-athletics-biletnikoff-smart-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/manoa-athletics-biletnikoff-smart-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/manoa-athletics-biletnikoff-smart-2-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> and Spectrum Networks announced a multi-year extension to continue with Spectrum as the official TV home for <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Athletics. With the partnership, Spectrum Sports will air live games and programming of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> men\u2019s and women\u2019s sports, and will continue to make <abbr>UH<\/abbr> football games available on Spectrum Sports Pay-Per-View in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Spectrum Sports has served as the official <abbr>TV<\/abbr> home of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Athletics since 2011, and we are proud that our coverage has allowed us to engage with <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> sports fans for nearly a decade.&rdquo; said Spectrum Networks <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Senior Director Dan Schmidt. &ldquo;We recognize the passion this community has for its Rainbow Wahine and Rainbow Warrior student-athletes, and together with the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> we\u2019re proud to continue our commitment of delivering live programming and game coverage that <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> fans love.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Spectrum Sports will continue to feature live game coverage of men\u2019s volleyball, women\u2019s soccer, men\u2019s basketball, women\u2019s basketball, baseball and softball, with an added commitment to feature women\u2019s water polo.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We\u2019re excited to continue our longstanding partnership with Spectrum and look forward to adding our nationally ranked water polo program to the lineup,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Athletics Director <strong>David Matlin<\/strong>. &ldquo;Since 2011, Spectrum Sports has been a household name, and our fans have come to expect quality telecasts night in and night out. We share in the excitement with each Rainbow Wahine and Rainbow Warrior victory, whether at home or in our athletic venues.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Spectrum and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> will also continue to offer <abbr>UH<\/abbr> football games via pay-per-view for <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> residents, and streaming options in partnership with the Mountain West Conference for fans outside of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa women\u2019s volleyball games will continue to air exclusively in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> on Spectrum <abbr>OC<\/abbr>16.<\/p>\n<p>Spectrum Sports is available on channels 12 (<abbr>SD<\/abbr>) and 1012 (<abbr>HD<\/abbr>) for Spectrum subscribers, and on channels 89 (<abbr>SD<\/abbr>) and 1089 (<abbr>HD<\/abbr>) for Hawaiian Telcom subscribers. <abbr>OC<\/abbr>16 is an exclusive channel of Spectrum, and is available on channels 16 (<abbr>HD<\/abbr>) and 1016 (<abbr>HD<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spectrum Sports will continue to air live games and programming of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa men\u2019s and women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,550],"class_list":["post-126402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126425,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126402\/revisions\/126425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}