I'll have to look. I was actually in the hospital recovering from a ruptured appendix that week. I wasn't home to record it on the VCR and I don't know if I had someone else do it. I had to listen to the game on the radio and when the nurse came into to take my vitals she commented that my blood pressure was a little high. I told her why and she said she'd come back and take my BP later.
Fox8 Cleveland does a 30-minute show right after the 10PM news.
During football season, that is
Pretty much!!
Just add an IV, stitches, drainage tubes, meds, etc...Columbus Grove has live streamed Football, Boys Basketball, and Girls Basketball with play by play and color commentator using Hudl cameras. Other activities can be shown with no on air personalities. In the HS gym they were even able to get more angles by tying their security cameras into it. Money raised helps support Athletic Department (future commercials) and the Athletic Boosters(streaming fees). The on air personalities come from Zsportslive. They have the radio feed going simultaneously. It's done really for the 1st year, and should only get better. Beauty of it is if you don't see it live, with your subscription you can go back and watch when you want to.
Very true and awesome points. I was thinking as this topic/thread as traditional media, but you are correct that non-traditional media is blowing up.
Very true. The Columbus Dispatch does an occasional article about the best players/teams. No scores for BB or the lesser sports. Last year they published (on the website) football results from scorestream. They pulled the plug on all the weekly suburban newspapers a couple of years ago. We are talking suburbs that have 30-45K pop without any news resource except social media!
It's the same here in the Queen City. Half of the coverage that high school sports get--when they actually do--involve recruiting and commitments, not about games. I miss the days of the suburban papers, too, but their sports coverage was so poorly organized. At some point about 25-30 years ago, Gannett (who owns the Enquirer) bought the Community Press papers and would frequently send both an Enquirer reporter and a Community Press reporter to cover the same game. Then Enquirer coverage took over in the Community Press papers' sports pages. Now the Community Press papers are long gone. 15 years ago, the Enquirer had 3 full time reporters to cover high school sports (one of whom focused on Northern Kentucky). Now it might be 1 person.
I'd be skeptical of that. A friend used to work for the Enquirer out of college and at the time (mid 00s), high school sports articles were #3 on Cincinnati.com behind the Bengals and Reds.
High school sports are incredibly dispersed. It's the same issue college sports face extrapolated from a hundred or so major schools to over 15,000 teams. It's impossible to cover them all and most people generally want to know their teams game, maybe a rival or upcoming opponent of their team and maybe some big name regional team and that's it. One outlet just can't cover that many points of interest.
In my area, we've been on the hook for nearly 10 years to submit box scores, game stories, etc. to the local newspaper. Unfortunately, some of the coaches at my school, especially younger ones who probably don't read the paper themselves, wouldn't do their part and submit their teams' results on a regular basis.
I do agree with the idea that love in person attendence has dropped but it's no only tied to games being streamed on the Internet.
BINGO!!! I have worked in the media for 17 years now and have experienced changes in ownership, management, and the ever-increasing strain on circulation and profits in the newspaper industry. Management in offices in Atlanta Georgia (or wherever the corporate office is located) are not vested in high school sports in Ohio. So, they cut costs by decreasing staff and consolidating printing presses.
You can't ignore the change in the financial situation of newspapers, radio and TV stations that resulted from the superior ad targeting provided by companies like Google and Facebook. Why pay for a full page ad in a newspaper or 30 second spot when you can reach your exact audience digitally?
They have 3 cable package channels, which they'll broadcast the game of the week live on the BCSN2 channel, and then the rest of the area games are live streamed on their convenient app. They host a "college game day" like show throughout the night as well on the main channel discussing all the games going on.
