Aug 18, 2008
HighSchoolOT.com covers high school sports like no one else can
High school sports coverage is changing in the Triangle.
For almost three decades, Capitol Broadcasting Co. has produced a football extravaganza known as Football Friday. We shoot 28 different football games across the region, and Tom Suiter pulls it all together in a fast-paced show that keeps kids and parents watching until midnight.
All that rumbles into action again this week, with the first show Friday, Aug. 22.
And we’ll do even more.
Our new website, www.HighSchoolOT.com, debuts. The site is designed to bring a new experience to high school fans in the Triangle.
While Football Friday will continue to fan out across the region, HighSchoolOT.com will focus on the schools here in the Triangle. New editor Tim Candon, who knows the market from his days covering high schools for the Cary News and Wake Weekly, will oversee a site that includes the enthusiastic Nick Stevens and four new correspondents.
Not only that, but 99.9 FM The Fan will broadcast live every Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. at a game of the week. They’ll start Friday, from the Millbrook at Garner game. And The Fan’s Adam Harris will have a Saturday morning high school show from 8 to 9 a.m. that wraps up the previous night’s events. That show will start Aug. 30.
Overall, it’s a major expansion of coverage, and a push to cover the local sports that matter most to area fans.
All the Football Friday coverage will move to HighSchoolOT.com (which you’ll still be able to reach through WRAL.com). So you’ll see plenty of video from Friday night games, photographs of fans and players and game reports and stats from all the games around the area.
The site is designed with the high school reader in mind. Each school in the area will have its own page, with schedules and stories and a place where fans can upload their own video and photos.
HighSchoolOT.com will focus on football at the start and then expand to include the other sports. And we’ll listen to your thoughts as we build a site that fits the needs of the high school community.
We’ll also include good stories from the new Vype High School Sports Magazine, which focuses on high school sports in the Triangle area. Vype and Capitol Broadcasting have partnered to share information of interest to the high school community.
But we want you, our readers, to be our partners, too. Give us your Friday night results, either by calling us at 1-888-472-9725 or emailing them to us at sports@wral.com.
And give us your feedback as we shape a site that provides you with a fresh look inside the world of high school sports.
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