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| Press Releases INSINC partners to webcast OPJHL Governors Showcase Weekend |
| September 18, 2008 | |
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INSINC partners to webcast OPJHL Governors Showcase Weekend Burnaby, BC, Toronto, ON and Boston, MA – INSINC, FASTHockey.com and the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League (OPJHL) today announced a broadcast partnership to deliver live and archived FREE broadband video services for the Governors Showcase Weekend held September 19th to 21st at the Garnet B. Rickard Complex in Bowmanville. FASTHockey and its delivery partner INSINC will webcast all 19 games during the weekend featuring all 37 OPJHL teams. INSINC, a pioneer in the delivery of streaming media, is excited to be partnering with FASTHockey. “Top level Junior hockey content has a strong fan base and is increasingly in high demand from Internet-savvy fans. Parents and coaches also greatly appreciate this kind of service. The FASTHockey platform includes a comprehensive suite of services for fans, players and coaches – the next logical extension was to incorporate live game coverage,” commented INSINC President, Hugh Dobbie.
"We are excited to have the opportunity to extend our relationship with Pointstreak and deliver the highest quality live games possible to one of the premier Junior leagues in the world. Working with the OPJHL over this weekend is an exciting event that will showcase the future of online streaming,” states Marc Ruskin, CEO of FASTHockey, “We are excited to showcase our video platform that allows users to watch up to four games at once, integrates game related content like rosters and player biographical information, and utilizes leading edge Microsoft Silverlight technology.”
About the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League
The Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League is a Junior A ice hockey league under the supervision of the Ontario Hockey Association and the Canadian Junior A Hockey League and is bound by the rules and regulations of both organizations. The league dates back to 1968 with teams based in the Greater Toronto Area, Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, and Northeastern Ontario. The OPJHL is proud to be the largest junior league in all of Canada. The OPJHL prides itself on its professional presentation as an amateur sports league and provides talented young players an opportunity to play at a competitive level of hockey. One of the main goals of the OPJHL is to further the player’s educational goals and to develop their hockey skills by exposing them to college and professional coaches. About FASTHockey.com FASTHockey.com is the premier online network for ice hockey players, coaches and fans to organize their hockey lives while developing personal connections rooted in shared hockey interests. FASTHockey.com provides the online platform so that athletes and coaches can create player and team profiles, upload videos and photos, track and view statistics, check out opponents before games, and discover the best ice hockey players in the world. Today our content includes: team details, rosters, schedules, league standings, scores, news, exclusive articles, blogs, college commitments, team rankings, , live and archived video streams, professionally produced video content, user uploaded photos & videos, and research tools. About INSINC
INSINC offers an enabling platform, with proprietary software tools for broadcasting video over the Internet. INSINC is the market leader in online video delivery in Canada and is known for innovation and for the ability to deliver solutions that fully meet the needs of its customers. INSINC's sports clients include: World Junior Hockey Championship, Ontario Hockey League, Western Hockey League, TVG Networks, British Columbia Hockey League, TSN, Hockey Canada, Canadian Soccer Association, Canadian Football League (CFL), Rogers Sportsnet, GOLTV, and TEAM 1040. INSINC also provides Internet video solutions to leading clients in business, media, entertainment and government. The website is at http://www.insinc.com.
For further information, please contact: Hugh Dobbie, President
INSINC
Phone: (604) 664-7727 x308
Web : www.insinc.com
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