Norton TV and WCCS set to broadcast Wheaton athletics, partnership to include coverage of multiple sports
The Wheaton College Department of Athletics has announced a partnership with Norton Community Television and student-run campus radio station WCCS-FM 96. 5 to broadcast a number of the school’s athletic events over the course of the academic year.
The Wheaton College Department of Athletics has announced a partnership with Norton Community Television and student-run campus radio station WCCS-FM 96.5 to broadcast a number of the school's athletic events over the course of the academic year.
The fall schedule includes 10 audio and video broadcasts and nearly one event per week through mid-October, beginning with the opening broadcast on Friday, August 31, when the nationally-ranked women's soccer team hosts non-conference foe Simmons College at 4:30 p.m.
Norton TV and WCCS broadcasts will be on a tape-delay basis and made available for free on the Wheaton College Athletics Web site at
www.wheatoncollege.edu/athletics
and at the Norton Community Television Web site at www.nortontv.org. In addition, rebroadcasts of the events can be seen on Channel 98 on Comcast cable throughout the town of Norton.
The audio portion of the broadcasts will be led by WCCS Sports Director Matt Noonan '10, who will assign or provide play-by-play and color commentary for each event. Norton TV coordinator Greg Moberg is slated to supply the video for each telecast.
In the fall, field hockey, men's soccer and women's volleyball are also scheduled to be broadcast. Coverage will include commemoration ceremonies for women's volleyball on September 15 and men's soccer during Homecoming weekend on October 20, as well as field hockey's game against national power Bowdoin College on September 9. Women's volleyball celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the program's NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 finish, while men's soccer honors the 10-year anniversary of the college's first men's team to reach an NCAA Tournament.
Broadcast coverage will extend into the postseason for the fall championships and expand into the winter and spring seasons. Men's and women's basketball are expected to be a part of the regular rotation in the winter, as are baseball, men's and women's lacrosse, and softball in the spring. Additional sports and events along with select road events and studio shows might also be considered.
Wheaton athletics is home to eight NCAA champions, 13 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) titles and 69 New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) regular season and tournament crowns. Over a dozen athletes have signed professional sports contracts or competed for places on U.S. Olympic teams. The department boasts over 300 All-America honors and 200 academic all-conference laurels, as well as one of the school's three Rhodes Scholars.
Founded in 1979, WCCS celebrates nearly 30 years as a free-format station. Today, WCCS is one of the college's largest campus organizations, comprising nearly 100 members, including students, faculty and staff, as well as students from the Norton community. Fans of the independent station tune in for news, talk, commentary, advice and music, all of which is broadcast from the station's state-of-the-art studio in the Balfour-Hood Campus Center. Tune in to WCCS locally at 96.5 or via the Internet at http://wccs.wheatoncollege.edu.
