Preparing for a New Season
Baseball season is just a few days away now and I'm enjoying a free Saturday morning at home, eating pancakes and having coffee with the fam. Most of my Saturdays are occupied by some sporting event, whether involving Oregon, Roseburg or the kids.
Actually, I kind of go crazy on weekends without anything on the schedule. I need to make sure I accomplish something every day, otherwise by Sunday night, I feel like the weekend was a waste.
Very soon, though, that won't be a problem. Oregon baseball opens at Cal State Fullerton February 19th.
We're also entering another new season at the radio station.
www.541radio.com went live this weekend, giving us another major challenge to face every day. Fortunately, we have found Justin Young.
Justin may be the most overqualified, major market media personality to ever come to Roseburg. He was one of the original reporters for rivals.com, which has become the industry standard for high school recruiting. Rivals was eventually purchased by Google, and through a few turns of fate, Justin, his wife and their young family decided to move from Atlanta, Georgia to Roseburg, of all places.
Justin's wife has family ties here. Thank goodness for us.
With just a week to launch, Justin took 541radio.com from the jumbled combination of video, audio, news and sports stories, contests and pictures we had assembled and nailed it (mostly) all down in time for launch. (The launch is a story of its own...)
Additionally, Justin has brought his experience and passion for high school basketball to the Roseburg broadcasts.
It occurred to me on the drive home from Sheldon the other night that Roseburg basketball fans (and in the fall, football fans, too) may be on the verge of listening to the best one-two punch of announcers/analysts ever.
Not to take away from some of our other colormen or sideline reporters, but consider:
Justin made a living covering the most highly touted high school basketball and football recruits in the nation. (He's even working on 541radio.com's own recruiting report for Oregon athletes for signing day.)
He knows his stuff and has already added solid insight to our coverage of Roseburg Indian basketball.
We already expanded into other Douglas County towns with the High School Game of the Week on 101.1 The Score and now we've made the radio broadcasts even better.
Additionally, Justin plans on shooting video of some of our games and overlaying the play-by-play audio from the broadcast over the top for the website.
At the very least, you will be able to listen to the last moments of every game we do and soon, we will be streaming and archiving all the games we do on The Score.
We really have entered a brave, new world of media with 541radio.com.
We intend on changing the way you get news and sports in Douglas County - and thanks to guys like Justin Young, improving the quality of the news and sports, too.
Welcome Justin! I hope you and your family fall in love with this area like my family and I have.
Actually, I kind of go crazy on weekends without anything on the schedule. I need to make sure I accomplish something every day, otherwise by Sunday night, I feel like the weekend was a waste.
Very soon, though, that won't be a problem. Oregon baseball opens at Cal State Fullerton February 19th.
We're also entering another new season at the radio station.
www.541radio.com went live this weekend, giving us another major challenge to face every day. Fortunately, we have found Justin Young.
Justin may be the most overqualified, major market media personality to ever come to Roseburg. He was one of the original reporters for rivals.com, which has become the industry standard for high school recruiting. Rivals was eventually purchased by Google, and through a few turns of fate, Justin, his wife and their young family decided to move from Atlanta, Georgia to Roseburg, of all places.
Justin's wife has family ties here. Thank goodness for us.
With just a week to launch, Justin took 541radio.com from the jumbled combination of video, audio, news and sports stories, contests and pictures we had assembled and nailed it (mostly) all down in time for launch. (The launch is a story of its own...)
Additionally, Justin has brought his experience and passion for high school basketball to the Roseburg broadcasts.
It occurred to me on the drive home from Sheldon the other night that Roseburg basketball fans (and in the fall, football fans, too) may be on the verge of listening to the best one-two punch of announcers/analysts ever.
Not to take away from some of our other colormen or sideline reporters, but consider:
Justin made a living covering the most highly touted high school basketball and football recruits in the nation. (He's even working on 541radio.com's own recruiting report for Oregon athletes for signing day.)
He knows his stuff and has already added solid insight to our coverage of Roseburg Indian basketball.
We already expanded into other Douglas County towns with the High School Game of the Week on 101.1 The Score and now we've made the radio broadcasts even better.
Additionally, Justin plans on shooting video of some of our games and overlaying the play-by-play audio from the broadcast over the top for the website.
At the very least, you will be able to listen to the last moments of every game we do and soon, we will be streaming and archiving all the games we do on The Score.
We really have entered a brave, new world of media with 541radio.com.
We intend on changing the way you get news and sports in Douglas County - and thanks to guys like Justin Young, improving the quality of the news and sports, too.
Welcome Justin! I hope you and your family fall in love with this area like my family and I have.
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