2008 Woodie Awards
TU football games broadcast live online
Parent organization, Athletic Department webcast football video
Ariel Barkurst
Issue date: 9/14/07 Section: Sports
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Due primarily to the efforts of the football booster club, Parents and Alumni With Spirit (PAWS), each of Trinity's varsity football games from now on will be webcasted live to a site connected to the PAWS home page. The varsity games thus far have been available in live video, though a few kinks remain. One hundred computers tuned in to the video for the first game of the year, including one at the Bombay Bicycle Club, where an enthusiastic fan transferred the image to one of the bar's big screen televisions.
"I hope everybody enjoys it," said Bob Edwards, a member of PAWS who had two sons play for Trinity and who spearheaded this effort. "I sure wish it had existed when Mike was playing, but that's just a sign of the times."
According to Sports Information Director Justin Parker, the parent group's effort was facilitated by the Trinity athletic department, which helped to test the equipment and provided a location at the games for the video webcasters, but the project, from raising the funds to setting up the technology, was done almost entirely by PAWS.
"You have to constantly test it," Parker said of PAWS' efforts. "You've got to work with the company that puts it online. I know Bob Edwards did a lot of leg work getting things set up."
Edwards hired Arizona-based company Stretch Internet, which provided a program that allows a computer to play a video camera image on an internet site. Edwards is using his own computer to webcast the games, and his fellow member of PAWS Bob Swint has provided a video camera.
"It doesn't take that much of a staff," Edwards said. "A camera man, an engineer type and a couple of announcers."
The announcers for the video webcast have been much the same as they were for the audio webcast last year. Sophomore Jonny Wiener has commentated, as have past player Jason Swint and Edwards.
The audio broadcast became the responsibility of PAWS last year, when KRTU opted out of broadcasting the football games in order to have a pure jazz format. The radio station allowed PAWS to take over, using the KRTU internet connection to webcast the games, though not to broadcast them over the radio waves.
"I hope everybody enjoys it," said Bob Edwards, a member of PAWS who had two sons play for Trinity and who spearheaded this effort. "I sure wish it had existed when Mike was playing, but that's just a sign of the times."
According to Sports Information Director Justin Parker, the parent group's effort was facilitated by the Trinity athletic department, which helped to test the equipment and provided a location at the games for the video webcasters, but the project, from raising the funds to setting up the technology, was done almost entirely by PAWS.
"You have to constantly test it," Parker said of PAWS' efforts. "You've got to work with the company that puts it online. I know Bob Edwards did a lot of leg work getting things set up."
Edwards hired Arizona-based company Stretch Internet, which provided a program that allows a computer to play a video camera image on an internet site. Edwards is using his own computer to webcast the games, and his fellow member of PAWS Bob Swint has provided a video camera.
"It doesn't take that much of a staff," Edwards said. "A camera man, an engineer type and a couple of announcers."
The announcers for the video webcast have been much the same as they were for the audio webcast last year. Sophomore Jonny Wiener has commentated, as have past player Jason Swint and Edwards.
The audio broadcast became the responsibility of PAWS last year, when KRTU opted out of broadcasting the football games in order to have a pure jazz format. The radio station allowed PAWS to take over, using the KRTU internet connection to webcast the games, though not to broadcast them over the radio waves.
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