The Coosa High School Engineering and Technology Department is partnering with Shorter College Athletics to produce a thirty minute TV program each week on Comcast Sports South (CSS, channel 35 on local cable) at 1 PM on Thursdays. The program will highlight Shorter College Athletics, concentrating on football and basketball through March of 2009. The program is produced by the Work-Based Learning Students at Coosa with help from professional broadcasters from around the area and state.  Students have annually worked with Georgia Public Broadcasting’s high school sports programming since 1997. Students at Coosa High have also broadcast local high school, college, and professional sports programs.  In addition to airing on CSS, the program will also air on Thursday nights at 9 pm on Comcast Spotlight Channel 44 in Rome and Calhoun and SKY TV 21 in Summerville. It will also air later in the week on Comcast Channel 4 on Fridays at 3:30 PM, and Saturday and Sunday at 8:30 PM.

Coosa High School, Floyd County Schools, and Shorter College envision this as an excellent opportunity for students to get hands-on work experience in the broadcasting field in all areas of production.  The experience will also provide students with the opportunity to establish life long contacts in the professional broadcasting field. Jon Nelson of Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Prep Sports + TV program is the host, with several local talents reporting and mentoring students.  These students will also be able to get more detailed training at the Floyd County Schools College and Career Academy’s broadcasting program and technical colleges throughout Northwest Georgia. Students are involved in all phases of production from producing commercials to taping and editing footage. In the process, several community and business contacts are being established that allow opportunities for additional work-based learning internships for the students.

For more information contact:

Allen Gossett
Coosa High School Technology Instructor & TSA Advisor