NCHSAA CHAMPIONSHIPS: Sinclair Broadcast to televise football, basketball championships

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CHAPEL HILL – The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) and Sinclair Broadcast Group have reached an agreement to bring annual state championship games in football and basketball to television across the state and beyond.

The initial agreement — announced in an NCHSAA press release on Tuesday — is for two years and will televise eight football title games and eight more in basketball to viewers across the state on Sinclair stations in its markets and online worldwide through their station websites.

No financial or contractual information – other than its duration– was released about the agreement.

Sinclair Broadcast Group operates over 200 television stations across the nation and currently operates local stations in three of North Carolina’s seven major television markets — WLOS and WMYA in Asheville, WXLV and WMYV in the Greensboro/Winston-Salem market and WLFL and WRDC in the Raleigh-Durham market.

Sinclair will also televise select regular season and playoff games for both football and basketball in their local markets, continuing their coverage in the Asheville area this season and adding coverage in the Triad and Triangle markets for the 2018-19 season.

“We are extremely pleased to find a partner in Sinclair that shares the values of education-based athletics that we uphold at the NCHSAA,” NCHSAA Commissioner Que Tucker said in a press release. “We are excited for the new opportunities to highlight the great accomplishments of our student-athletes, schools and their communities through this new partnership.”

Stephen Mann, director of high school programing for Sinclair, said in the press release:

“The state championships allow the Sinclair Broadcast Group to continue its commitment to serving our communities with meaningful local grassroots programming.

“We are very excited and proud of our partnership with the NCHSAA and look forward to showcasing the schools, the teams and the student-athletes as they reach out to achieve their moment in history in the NCHSAA State Championships.”

The state football championships are scheduled Dec. 9 and the basketball title games are March 10.

A list of game times and stations will be available on the NCHSAA Website the week prior to the championships.

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