HS Football ’24 Scheduling Highlights
One way or another, it’s going to be a unique fall football season in the Lehigh Valley this year…and Astound TV is proud to broadcast more high school football games than ever before!
A couple years ago, the Colonial League agreed to merge its high school football season, which radically changed the schedule for local teams. In an effort to make games more competitive, the “co-op” matched up schools/teams of similar sizes, which meant a number of teams in our coverage area would play several teams outside the region – which made it harder to feature our local schools on television broadcasts.
Now, the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference has made a major change – adding three ‘non-conference’ games to every team’s schedule, which also forces our local teams to seek opponents outside the area.
The result is that many teams will face (and travel to) schools far beyond the Lehigh Valley’s borders (a few teams are playing teams from different states!)
Complicating things…there continues to be issues with the number of officials and transportation, which means games have continued to be moved to different days of the week as schools try to deal with these shortages while still maintaining a full sports schedule for as many of its fall sports teams as possible.
Despite all these changes the last two years, the Astound TV Network has brought you more games and more schools than ever before in our station’s history – a trend that will continue this fall – while still bringing you the most anticipated matchup of the season.
And even with even more radical adjustments for this year’s season, the Astound TV sports department is committed to continuing this goal of expanding our high school sports coverage once again this fall.
As we get ready to bring you more games than ever before this fall, there are several days in which there are multiple matchups that will be of interest to our viewers. Like the last two seasons, we will be waiting until we get closer to those dates to determine which teams/games we will be broadcasting.
With that in mind, we already have posted games that we are “locked into” for broadcasting here on our website (see those games on our HS Football page).
ADDITIONALLY, there are many more games listed below that we are considering broadcasting for the fall – most, if not all of these dates will feature doubleheader football games featuring some combinations of the games listed below, on the Astound TV Network (a final determination will be made as we get closer to these games/dates)…
8/23 (Fri.) – Geo. Washington at Parkland & Saucon Valley at Bangor
8/29 (Thurs) – Northwestern at Northern Lehigh
8/30 (Fri ) – Parkland at Freedom; Becahi at Emmaus; Nazareth at Whitehall
9/6 (Fri) – Central at Freedom; Parkland at Northampton; Northwestern at Bangor
9/7 (Sat) No. Lehigh at Pen Argyl and Stroudsburg at Liberty
9/12 (Thur) – Salisbury at Catty
9/13 (Fri) – Freedom at Nazareth; Northampton at Liberty; Becahi at Easton; Saucon Valley at Notre Dame; Salisbury at Catty
9/20 (Fri) – Easton at Emmaus; Northampton at Whitehall; Nazareth at Parkland; Liberty at Dieruff; Notre Dame at Catty
9/27 (Fri) – Catty at Saucon Valley; Pleasant Valley at Nazareth; Dieruff at WHS; Nolehi at Notre Dame
10/4 (Fri) – Whitehall at Emmaus; Nazareth at Liberty;Northampton at Easton
10/11 (Fri) – Easton at Liberty; Freedom at Northampton; Solehi at Bangor; Nolehi at Catty
10/12 (Sat) – Saucon Valley at Pen Argyl or Parkland at Central or Nazareth at Bethlehem Catholic
10/18 (Fri) – Parkland at Whitehall; Easton at Freedom; Solehi at Saucon Valley; Northampton at Nazareth
10/25 (Fri) – Parkland at Emmaus; Central at Whitehall; Nazareth at Easton; Beca at Northampton; Northwestern at Solehi; Saucon Valley at Nolehi
Again, the above list is IN ADDITION to our combination of games already posted on our broadcast page here on our website – be sure to bookmark and keep checking back to our “HS Football Schedule” page on our website. That list, AND a combination of the games listed above, will comprise our broadcast schedule this season.
Additionally, we hope to ADD high school soccer to our broadcasting plans for this fall as well!
As always, I would love to hear your feedback and encourage our viewers to share this list with their friends and family members. I have tried to be very open since I’ve had the opportunity to select games on our network the last two years, and I welcome your thoughts and suggestions to bring the best quality games and high school football broadcast schedule to our viewers.
Feel free to contact me at chris.michael@astound.com
…and bring on the new season!
The views expressed in this blog are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Astound Broadband or any other agency, organization, employer or company.
