FERRIS SPORTS UPDATE RETURNS FOR A THIRD YEAR
Television Show Featuring Ferris State Athletics To Air This Year On Fox 33
The weekly Ferris State University television program, Ferris Sports Update, will be returning to the airwaves for a third straight season and feature expanded broadcast coverage this year in a recent announcement made by the FSU Athletics Department along with the school's University Advancement & Marketing division.
Ferris Sports Update is a half-hour, weekly coaches interview show which profiles Ferris State Athletics. The show is produced by Ferris State University's Television and Digital Media Production (TDMP) students in partnership with the Bulldog Athletics Department.
This year, the show will have increased visibility via broadcast television across Northern Michigan and parts of the Upper Peninsula on Fox 33, which can also be found on most cable systems and satellite providers throughout the region.
Ferris Sports Update will be airing on Fox 33 Wednesday's at 11 p.m. (ET) with the first show scheduled to be shown on Wednesday, Sept. 10. The 32-episode show will air weekly throughout the fall and spring semesters.
Returning as the host of Ferris Sports Update is local radio personality Scott Roman of Sunny 97.3 radio. The 30-minute program is taped and produced in a studio within the Interdisciplinary Resource Center (IRC) Building on the FSU campus. The show will also be aired locally on Ferris' Cable Television Channel at selected times during the week. Additional plans are currently underway to provide free live on-demand streaming of the show over the internet.
Ferris Sports Update affords a unique opportunity for Bulldog fans to get up-to-date information pertaining to Ferris State athletics while also providing insight from the respective FSU varsity athletic programs from its coaches, student-athletes and support staff. The show will include features on Ferris State student-athletes along with highlights from Bulldog Athletics events.
"This is a tremendous opportunity to showcase Ferris State University and its quality athletics program," said FSU Athletics Director Tom Kirinovic. "The show has proved to be a success the last couple of seasons and we believe the coverage of Bulldog athletics will only continue to improve and expand.
"Certainly the production of Ferris Sports Update wouldn't be possible without the tremendous support of (interim vice president) Shelly Armstrong in University Advancement and Marketing and those associated with Television and Media Production program," added Kirinovic.
The students in the class producing the show are under the direction of faculty member Glen Okonoski with assistance from department chair Fred Wyman, engineer Pat Tobin along with streaming media professor Connie Morcom. Ferris Media Production faculty member Steve Cox coordinates the airing of the show on Ferris Cable.
"The production of the show provides an excellent applied learning experience for students in the TDMP program while delivering interesting content that promotes the athletics programs at Ferris," Okonoski said.
More information on the show can be found by clicking on the "Ferris Sports Update" banner found on the official FSU Athletics Website at www.ferris.edu/sports.
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