GPB Sports to Upgrade Coverage of High School Football

Sports held a press conference Wednesday afternoon in Midtown that focused on the expansion of additional coverage for high school football games on Friday nights, as well as partnering with the Southern Conference (College Football Championship Subdivision) to telecast college football games on the network Saturday afternoons.

President and executive director of GPB Media, Teya Ryan, stressed the importance of state-wide coverage for high school sports, and wants Georgia high school football to be synonymous with GPB television.

I.J. Rosenburg, director of sports at GPB, announced that the network will kick off the season by broadcasting the 20th Annual Corky Kell Classic for the first time ever live from the Georgia Dome.

Led by an entertaining and veteran team of sports reporters Gil Tyree, Mark Harmon, Jon Nelson and Niki Noto, GPB Sports plans on taking Georgia high school football on Friday night’s to the next level. Paul Hunter will join Tyree in the booth for play-by-play action.

The network will provide two high school football games of the week this fall on Friday, one that airs on GPB TV, while the other airs online at www.gpb.org.

GPB also announced their partnership with the Southern Conference (SoCon) to broadcast the conference’s football games on Saturday afternoons beginning the first weekend of October.

“Our presidents and chancellors love the idea of working with public television … Hopefully, we will be able to impress some eyeballs on GPB that perhaps hadn’t been there as often,” SoCon Commissioner John Iamarino said.

GPB will also showcase other Georgia High School Association (GHSA) championship sporting events such as basketball, wrestling and cheerleading for the upcoming 2011-2012 season.

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