BROADCAST NETWORK
Taking the microphone, students reach wide audience
Students do
it all through
broadcast
network
The games are then
streamed to the high school’s
dedicated page on the nation-
al network website. When
available, the students will do
announcements and commen-
tary for the games.
“With the kids announc-
ing, it’s a little more pure, in
the sense that they’re not pol-
ished, but listeners like that
aspect of it,” Boyd said. “The
excitement they bring is a lot
of fun.”
By Katherine Lacaze
For Seaside Signal
The Seaside Student
Broadcast Network was the
recent beneficiary of new
equipment that will expand
the student-run club’s event
coverage in years to come,
even though its active mem-
bers are few.
Since the club, headed by
athletic director Jason Boyd,
started during the 2014-2015
school year, the student in-
terest and involvement has
fluctuated, along with the net-
work’s capabilities. Through
an online platform provided
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Seaside Student Broadcast Network students provide coverage at a state basketball tourna-
ment game during the spring of 2017. Now junior Wesley Corliss, left, has been a consistent
member of the club since his freshman year.
by the National Federation of
State High School Associa-
tions, schools can live stream
coverage of athletic events —
along with other activities and
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programs — to reach a wider
audience across the state and
even country.
“Kids do all the announc-
ing, they do all the video, they
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basically do the whole broad-
cast,” Boyd said, adding it’s
“another way for kids who
like sports to get involved
without playing a sport.”
Adding new
equipment
During the club’s first few
years, students would operate
the camera, along with insert-
ing data on a computer. In late
2017, however, the Seaside
Booster Club provided funds
for an approximately $5,000
Pixellot camera, along with
a computer tower, that can
keep the live coverage com-
ing through a fully automated
system, even when students
are unavailable to provide the
manual labor.
“It’s really revolutionary
in the idea that it uses four
cameras and can pick up 180
degrees from where it’s fac-
ing,” Boyd said. “It uses a
logarithm in a computer to
take the picture from the four
cameras and track the ball and
track the action.”
Senior Ashton Boyd, Jason
Boyd’s son and a member of
the broadcast network since
his freshman year, focused on
the club and the installation
of the camera for his Pacifi-
ca Project, a community ser-
vice requirement for all high
school seniors. The system
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