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Telegram to offer Web viewing of GCHS games
Published 9/8/2011
By BRETT MARSHALL
bmarshall@gctelegram.com
When Garden City and Woodward, Okla., kickoff their 7 p.m. game on Friday at Memorial Stadium, Buffaloes' fans who are unable to be in attendance will have a new option in viewing the game.
Preps Live, an online live stream video broadcast, will be launched by The Garden City Telegram. Viewers can log onto www.gctelegram.com/live to watch the game live on the Internet.
In making the announcement, Telegram Editor-Publisher Dena Sattler said the newspaper was excited about venturing into another area of communication and service to its customers.
"We know southwest Kansans have a passion for high school sports, so football season was a natural starting point for our new broadcasting venture," Sattler said. "Preps Live gives us an opportunity to bring the games to more people."
Already serving its readers with the six-day a week Telegram newspaper and its daily updated website, www.gctelegram.com, The Telegram is hoping to reach that audience that otherwise can't be in attendance at 2011 home Buffaloes' games.
"Our goal is to deliver sports, news and other information on multiple platforms — print, online and mobile — to reach as many people as possible," Sattler said. "In the future, we plan to broadcast more games and expand our live broadcasting to other school and community events."
The inaugural broadcast will begin at 7 p.m. and will end shortly after the game is concluded. Brennan Keller, a senior at GCHS, will handle the play-by-play announcing duties. He has experience with BBS-TV and KBBS Radio, the student television and radio stations at GCHS. Trevor Hands will be the videographer. Hands is a 1998 GCHS graduate who earned a bachelor of arts in music with a minor in communications from Friends University in Wichita and a master of arts in communications, directing/editing from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va.
The game will be archived on The Telegram's website and will be posted at www.gctelegram.com/live within 48 hours of the game's conclusion. Current plans include all home GCHS football games with future plans including basketball and wrestling home events.
The Telegram will be an affiliate of the iNK Barrel Video Network, a ready-made web broadcasting program for newspaper publishers. The company was formed in 2007 and grew out of the digital initiatives at the Black Hills (S.D.) Pioneer and Hastings (Neb.) Tribune. Other Kansas newspapers utilizing iNK Barrel are the Arkansas City Traveler, Concordia Blade-Empire, Emporia Gazette, Hutchinson News, Manhattan Mercury, Salina Journal and Winfield Daily Courier.
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