{"id":88305,"date":"2023-12-19T16:31:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T16:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.astound.com\/atvn\/?p=88305"},"modified":"2023-12-19T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T16:31:24","slug":"st-a-year-of-firsts-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astound.com\/atvn\/st-a-year-of-firsts-again\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year of \u201cFirsts\u201d &#8211; AGAIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s a sample of the Parkland boys basketball team that appeared on a recent \u201cSportsTalk\u201d show that was broadcast live on both ATVN and live-streamed for free on our YouTube channel\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4wQJ7-ih8ug?si=0uBffj8L0Yy0VLxJ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For anyone, assuming that our 2022&#8217;s &#8220;year of firsts&#8221; with the Astound TV Network\u2019s Sports team was just a flash in the pan, think again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year around this time, we posted a series of &#8220;first&#8221; &#8230; details of our expanded coverage of the student athletes in the ATVN viewing area during the previous 12 months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We promised we were going to up the ante in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did we do what we said we were going to do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s 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\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">our first ever District XI girls softball championship doubleheader<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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\u2019s post-season run<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">our network&#8217;s first ever girls volleyball doubleheader championship<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our network\u2019s first ever league girls semifinal basketball games\u2026and we did them for BOTH the EPC and the Colonial League<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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&#8217;s history<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">thanks to some new, creative scheduling techniques\u2026more high school football games than ever before<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ditto for high school basketball and wrestling last winter (and even more planned for 2024!)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first EVER women\u2019s wrestling match broadcast\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first girls\/boys wrestling doubleheader ever to be broadcast<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we brought you more league and district playoff games than ever before<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">our first-ever &#8220;all features&#8221; edition of our SportsTalk program, with exclusive interviews with EVERY sports team in the our coverage areas during the fall and spring sports seasons<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.\u00a0 We also continued to bring you our traditional sports season &#8220;previews&#8221; 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