NEW YORK – The BIG EAST Digital Network (BEDN) Presented by SoFi has continued its relationship with Caffeine, a recently launched social broadcasting platform for live sports, gaming, and esports, as a distributor of Women’s Basketball and Olympic sports championships and events for 2019-20. The BIG EAST has a dedicated channel on Caffeine,
www.Caffeine.tv/BEDN, where fans can find all BEDN content.
BIG EAST women’s soccer kicks off the September slate of games on Sunday, Sept. 15 with a non-league matchup between Georgetown and West Virginia. On Friday, Sept. 20, BIG EAST men’s soccer league play debuts with all five games on BEDN.
For a full schedule of BEDN’s Fall 2019 lineup, click
here. The women’s basketball
schedule was announced on Sept. 12.
In addition to appearing on Caffeine, all BEDN events will be co-streamed on YouTube via the conference’s main channel,
www.youtube.com/BIGEASTConference, and Twitter on the main BIG EAST handle,
@BIGEAST.
FOX Sports, the BIG EAST’s national media partner, is a major investor in Caffeine. Still in pre-release, Caffeine, features an expanding catalog of sports, gaming and esports content that is live streamed on the site. In addition to the
website, Caffeine offers mobile apps that are available to download on
App Store and
Google Play.
Fans who follow the
BIG EAST Digital Network on Caffeine can receive push notifications when the content goes live. Additionally, the BIG EAST social platforms will promote tune-ins on the main @BIGEAST Twitter handle.
Caffeine carried BEDN’s spring 2019 championship events, which included women’s lacrosse, softball, outdoor track & field and baseball.
BEDN, launched in September 2014 as a streaming-only offering of 225 live regular season and championship events annually for the BIG EAST Conference, spanning women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball, field hockey, men’s and women’s lacrosse, softball and baseball. Additionally, BEDN produces live championship coverage for indoor and outdoor track & field, men’s and women’s swimming and diving and, for the first time this year, men’s and women’s tennis. SoFi became the presenting sponsor of BEDN in 2017-18.
Additionally, BEDN content is available for fans to live host their own streams on Caffeine. The platform easily allows anyone, from dedicated fans to experienced broadcasters, to create their own interactive live streams featuring television and digital content. Starting a broadcast is a simple process that requires no special software or experience, only a smartphone or browser and webcam. All live streams are discoverable on Caffeine and can be joined by anybody. Unlike other platforms, Caffeine streams prioritize conversations between friends, so the chat feels more personal.
About the BIG EAST
The BIG EAST Conference is an association of ten nationally prominent colleges and universities that foster healthy athletic competition, community service and the pursuit of excellence in academic environments. The athletic programs of BIG EAST institutions provide national-caliber participation opportunities for more than 3,727 student-athletes on over 180 men’s and women’s teams in 22 sports. Established in 1979 and headquartered in New York City, the BIG EAST’s members are located in seven of the country’s top 36 largest media markets and include Butler University, Creighton University, DePaul University, Georgetown University, Marquette University, Providence College, St. John’s University, Seton Hall University, Villanova University and Xavier University. For more information, visit
www.bigeast.com.
About Caffeine
Caffeine is a new kind of broadcast company. Its mission is to build the leading product and community for social broadcasting. Caffeine is backed by $146M in three rounds of funding led by FOX, Andreessen Horowitz, and Greylock Partners. For more information, visit
www.caffeine.tv.