State tourneys will get plenty of broadcast time

Posted: Thursday, March 1, 2012 7:00 pm

Tennessee high school basketball fans are about to get their fill of the state’s best teams.
The TSSAA Network has announced that beginning today and running through Saturday, March 17, all 54 games of the 2012 BlueCross Basketball Championships, presented by BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, will be broadcast live in their entirety across several distribution outlets.
The 10 Division I and II boys’ and girls’ championship games will be broadcast on live television across the seven Tennessee Public Television Council stations throughout the state, as well as streamed live nationally on ESPN3.
All 44 quarterfinal and semifinal games will be streamed live at www.TSSAANetwork.com and www.youtube.com/playonnetwork.
The Division II boys’ and girls’ basketball championships from Lipscomb University’s Allen Arena in Nashville and the Division I title games from the Murphy Center at Middle Tennessee State in Murfreesboro will broadcast live on the seven Tennessee Public Television Council stations, including Martin/Jackson (WLJT), Chattanooga (WTCI), Cookeville (WCTE), Tri-Cities (WETP), Knoxville (WKOP), Memphis (WKNO) and Nashville (WNPT). 
All the Division I and II championship games will be streamed live on ESPN3. All quarterfinal and semifinal games will be streamed live at www.TSSAANetwork.com and www.youtube.com/playonnetwork. 
Latest schduling information can be foun at www.TSSAANetwork.com/bluecrossbasketball.
The TSSAA Network is a partnership between the TSSAA and PlayOn! Sports that features live and on-demand coverage of high school sports in Tennessee across television and the Internet.
The TSSAAnetwork.com video portal is one component of the partnership and gives fans access, at no charge, to a wide variety of events including the recent TSSAA Wrestling Championship.
PlayOn! Sports is the largest rights holder, producer, and aggregator of high school sports events distributed across television, the Internet, and IP-video enabled mobile devices.
By combining state athletic associations’ postseason content with the regular season events of member schools, PlayOn provides marketers with a unique multi-media platform solution to reach teens, young adults and families.
For more information, contact PlayOn! Sports at info@playonsports.com, or visit www.playonsports.com. Published in The Messenger 3.1.12