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Latest revision as of 03:10, 13 October 2012
IMG College, is a sports marketing company formed from the acquisition of Host Communications and The Collegiate Licensing Company in 2007. Additionally ISP Sports was acquired in 2010.
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.
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] 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.
The organization also co-owns the Longhorn Network.
Markets and schools
At the conference level, IMG represents the ACC, Big East, Conference USA, MAC and Sun Belt[2] and also individually represents schools from the SEC and Big 12 as well as the FedEx Orange Bowl and Meineke Car Care Bowl.[3] The company also maintains the ISP Sports Academy, a professional development initiative for ISP employees in Atlanta, Georgia.
IMG represents more than 70 universities, including, but not limited to:[4]Template:Div col
- 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
- Kansas
- 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
- Texas
- TCU
- Troy
- UAB
- UCF
- UCLA
- UNLV
- USF
- UTEP
- Valparaiso
- Vanderbilt
- Villanova
- Virginia Tech
- Wake Forest
- Washington
- Washington State
References
- ↑ IMG College
- ↑ "Partners:Conferences". ISP Sports. Retrieved 2008-02-07.
- ↑ "Partners:Conferences". ISP Sports. Retrieved 2008-02-07.
- ↑ "Partners:Universities". ISP Sports. Retrieved 2008-02-07.
