West Liberty to televise men’s basketball division-II championship

March13,2012 The nationally ranked West Liberty mens basketball team is looking for another win tonight in the regional Atlantic championship game. The game will be televised by the students at West Liberty University.

West Liberty University operates its own cable television station on a Wheeling area cable channel that reaches more than 100,000 homes. The institution produces ninety percent of their own content including more than 40 televised games per yearmost of which also air on a assortment of various media television outlets.

Reid Amos, who has led the WV Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament Radio Network since 2003, also recently served as executive producer and the play-by-play caller for the televised WVIAC basketball championship finals. That 4-day tournament in Charleston was picked up by Pittsburghs ROOT SPORTS, available in more than 99 percent of cable homes in West Virginia.

We covered at least one game each day for our own station, Amos says. We were delivering it live via some new IP technology which were very confident are going to revolutionize the way live television gets deliveredit already is in some ways.

"Then on Saturday when we worked with ROOTS SPORTS-Pittsburgh, we delivered to ROOTS SPORTS live via satellite. It was the first experience for our students to work with a satellite truck delivering a live show. We had ten students who made up the majority of our crew. It was a neat, neat experience for everybody that was involved.

The students showed up in their brand new 24 and a half foot long studio production truck known as Bella and recorded their home-team mens basketball team the Hilltoppers win the WVIAC tournament 93-90, in overtime, against the Charleston Golden Eagles.

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West Liberty to televise men’s basketball division-II championship