STAA clients calling games for USA Today

Sept. 14, 2010 - PRLog -- This football season, STAA clients are getting great opportunity to broadcast play-by-play for one of the nation’s largest media outlets. USA Today is streaming one live game each week and posting On-Demand video broadcasts of an additional 10 games each week as part of its Super 25 coverage, and STAA clients are getting a lot of the work.

In the first two weeks of the season, at least eight STAA clients have broadcast games for USA Today. Many of them will continue broadcasting for as long as their local team stays ranked.

“For our younger clients, its great experience. For our more experienced guys, it is an opportunity to broadcast the nation's best high school football. ,” says STAA CEO Jon Chelesnik. “Plus the compensation for a single broadcast pays for roughly eight months of STAA services, and several of these guys are going to get to call up the 11 or 12 games depending on how their teams play.”

The USA Today opportunity came to STAA clients when the newspaper contracted with Internet play-by-play powerhouse iBN for talent. IBN turned to STAA.

“We posted the opportunity on our job board, so both STAA clients and non-clients have earned games,” Chelesnik says. “However, when new opportunities come up on a weekly basis, the guys at iBN have used the STAA Talent Search database to locate local talent across the country.”

iBN has been broadcasting Internet play-by-play of various high school sports for several years. They started in Southern California but have expanded regionally and are now growing nationally. STAA has been helping iBN schedule talent since 2008. This summer, iBN partnered with Southern California-based Home Field Sports (www.homefieldsports.com) to help facilitate growth.

“Danny Page from Home Field Sports has been an acquaintance of mine for several years and his business partner, Ryan Miller, is someone I have come to know more recently,” Chelesnik says. “They have a terrific understanding of and track record for marketing and executing high school play-by-play on the Internet.”

STAA clients who have already called games this season for USA Today’s Top 25 are Eric Andersson (Phoneix, AZ), Anthony Bellino (Monroe, MI), Michael Carotenuto (Phoenix, AZ), Mark Heller (Orange County, CA), Milan Jordan (Columbus, OH), John Herrick (Greenwood, IN) Tim Shovers (Washington, DC) and Derrick Palmer (Tucson, AZ). STAA client Tim Slack (Dublin, CA) also broadcasts games for iBN.

iBN isn’t the only high school play-by-play Internet outlet for which STAA clients are working this fall. Through STAA, Lance Cartelli (Irvine, CA) and Kyle Glaser (San Diego) have gained employment with San Diego based kbcsports.com.

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