STOUGHTON, WI - Stoughton Sports Network wins another Achievement Award for Football Coverage in the Best of the Midwest Media Fest.

The annual Best of the Midwest Media Fest honors top-scoring videos and LPFM radio programs created for play on public, education, and government (PEG) access channels, PEG websites, and LPFM radio stations in a nine-state area. Entries came from 24 Wisconsin-based centers and fourteen from out-of-state. This year, 41 programs scored high enough to earn an Excellence Award, 52 programs earned an Achievement Award, and 55 programs were recognized with a Merit Award.

SSN’s Football Coverage from September 20th, 2019 scored high enough to be awarded an Achievement Award. Judges from professional media centers throughout the Midwest scored the program ranging from 62.5/100 to 89.5/100 averaging out to 76.875/100.

We are proud of our coverage here in Stoughton. We work with a very limited staff to produce high quality content for our citizens. We are particularly proud of this football game as it was Homecoming and our team was really on the ball that night. We ran multiple replays, had timely graphics, excellent camera work and our fabulous announcer.

The crew of a football game consists of only two people in the production truck, two camera operators and one announcer. The crew in the truck includes a Director/Producer and a Graphics Operator. The Director/Producer is responsible for coordinating the entire production as well as rolling produced video content, switching cameras, running sound several channels of sound, cutting, queuing and taking replays as well as queuing the graphics operator. The graphics operator is responsible for all of the graphic overlays you see on the air. This also a quite complex job that involves listening to the announcer for ques, following each play for the down and yardage remaining and basically keeping track of all of the aspects of the game to ensure proper graphic content.

Our announcer, James Wyngaard is one of the best community media announcers in the county working with WSTO/SSN for well over 15 years. During a Football Game he generally either brings a friend to assist him with keeping stats or he will do it all by himself without missing a beat. In 2018 James was awarded a Wisconsin Community Media Friend of Access Award after being nominated by two different community media centers including Stoughton and McFarland. James has done sports commentary for WSTO/SSN, OCA Media in Oregon, WMCF in McFarland, The Sun Prairie Media Center and others.

Overall we are extremely proud of what we are able to produce here in Stoughton with such a small staff.

See the Wisconsin Community Media Press Release Here

You can watch the award winning game below

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