Media Information • 2013 Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five Media Credential Request Form 2013 Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five Media members wishing to cover the 2013 Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five MUST complete this form & return it by by Friday, March 8th to: Deb Hanson, Communications Office, Minnesota Wild. Fax this application to: 651 293-9574.

Name of media outlet: ______

Check type of media outlet: Print: ______Radio: ______TV: ______

Name(s) of person(s) to be issued credentials: ______

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Phone: ______Fax: ______e-mail: ______

What WCHA team do you regularly cover? ______

I will attend and cover (please check one): All five games ______Only if my local team participates ______

Will you be accompanied by a photographer? Yes ______No ______

Name of photographer: ______

Do you require a phone line? Yes ______No ______(see Media Phone Lines/ Service information below)

If you have any questions prior to the tournament, please contact: Doug Spencer, WCHA Associate Commissioner for Public Relations, at: 608 829- 0100 or Deb Hanson, Communications & Broadcasting, Minnesota Wild, at: 651 602-5729.

Working media credentials for the 2013 Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five – March 21, 22 and 23 at Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minn. – will be issued in the following priority: certified media from the six competing teams, campus media certified by the SID of each participating institution, media who cover the conference and its teams on a regular basis, media from the immediate locale of the tournament, and other accredited media as space permits. Final Five Credential requests will be confirmed by Deb Hanson via email, fax or telephone. PRINT: Print media granted credentials will be assigned one working space per outlet in the Xcel Energy Center press box. Seat locations will be assigned by the WCHA and Deb Hanson, Minnesota Wild. PHOTO: Photographers granted working credentials will not have assigned seats in the press box. : Each school’s regular radio station (play-by-play) will have the right of first refusal for 2013 Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five games. Radio stations wishing to broadcast game(s) live from the 2013 Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five and who pay the required rights fees of $100.00 per game in advance to the WCHA will be granted two working credentials (maximum of three upon request) in the press box. Specific radio broadcast locations will be assigned by the WCHA and Deb Hanson of the Minnesota Wild. Checks for broadcast rights fees ($100.00 per game) should be made payable to ‘Western Collegiate Hockey Association’ and forwarded in advance to: Carol LaBelle-Ehrhardt, Assistant Commissioner of Operations, WCHA, MSC 8302, 2211 S. Josephine, Denver, CO 80208-8302. Radio stations not broadcasting the Final Five and granted credentials will be assigned one working space per outlet as space permits in the Xcel Energy Center press box. : All 2013 Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five games will be telecast by FOX Sports North. Exclusive television broadcast rights to the 2013 Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five are owned by the WCHA and the Minnesota Wild and no other live television or video coverage of the event will be permitted. TV stations wishing to acquire feeds from the 2013 Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five must contact: Maggie Kukar, Manager, Broadcasting and Production, Minnesota Wild at: 651 602-5720 ([email protected]). TV stations wishing to report only on the tournament and who are granted credentials will be issued one working space per outlet in the press box but no other live coverage of the event will be permitted. MEDIA PHONE LINES/INTERNET SERVICE: All phones located in the press box, if not previously arranged, have local access. IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Media needing dedicated phone/radio lines in the Xcel Energy Center press box for the Final Five must order online – paper forms are no longer accepted. Xcel Energy Center can accept ONLY credit cards as payment (Visa, Mastercard, Discover & American Express). A TELEPHONE & INTERNET SERVICE ORDER FORM and additional information is available at: http://www.rivercentre.org/exhibit/onlineordering.asp