A Year of “Firsts” – AGAIN!

Here’s a sample of the Parkland boys basketball team that appeared on a recent “SportsTalk” show that was broadcast live on both ATVN and live-streamed for free on our YouTube channel…

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For anyone, assuming that our 2022’s “year of firsts” with the Astound TV Network’s Sports team was just a flash in the pan, think again.

Last year around this time, we posted a series of “first” … details of our expanded coverage of the student athletes in the ATVN viewing area during the previous 12 months.

We promised we were going to up the ante in 2023.

Did we do what we said we were going to do?

Let’s take a look at the following accomplishments and additions to our broadcast and programming lineups by the Astound TV Network crew during the past 12 months…

• our first ever District XI girls softball championship doubleheader
• more high school baseball than ever before, including our first foray past the first round state baseball playoff game and exclusive coverage of the Liberty baseball team’s post-season run
• our network’s first ever girls volleyball doubleheader championship
• Our network’s first ever league girls semifinal basketball games…and we did them for BOTH the EPC and the Colonial League
• expanded coverage of our local teams, with more schools being represented in each sports season that we broadcast than in any other year of our station’s history
• thanks to some new, creative scheduling techniques…more high school football games than ever before
• ditto for high school basketball and wrestling last winter (and even more planned for 2024!)
• The first EVER women’s wrestling match broadcast 
• The first girls/boys wrestling doubleheader ever to be broadcast
• we covered at least one game for EVERY school in our Lehigh Valley coverage area while still bringing you the best games/matches from each season; something our network never before accomplished
• we brought you more league and district playoff games than ever before
• our first-ever “all features” edition of our SportsTalk program, with exclusive interviews with EVERY sports team in the our coverage areas during the fall and spring sports seasons

And, oh, by the way, we also launched FREE streaming of all of our live games, with all of our studio shows and remote productions available to watch for free at any time for Astound video customers through ATVN On-Demand.

We did it all while also bringing you just as many Lafayette University sports events, Blue Mountain League baseball and Grandview Speedway racing as we have done in the past.  We also continued to bring you our traditional sports season “previews” and “recaps” SportsTalk shows as in previous years, along with having great guests and special interviews on our show throughout the year.

Plans are already underway to do even more local sports – and even more “firsts” – in 2024, along with new and innovative ways to feature the special people in the Astound viewing area. We hope you’ll join us for what promises to be an exciting ride for local sports fans and ATVN viewers in the coming year. 

Until then, enjoy your holiday season and keep your expectations high for the ATVN in 2024.

 

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