Palmer Media and Georgia News Network have announced the radio broadcast teams for the 2014 GHSA / Tommy Guillebeau Football State Championships presented by Georgia Farm Bureau on December 12 & 13 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
GNN is the exclusive statewide radio source for the Championship games and will provide play-by-play coverage for radio stations across Georgia. The games will air locally in the Atlanta area on 680 The Fan family of stations.
For the first time, the statewide network will also air a “Championship Preview Show” on Thursday, December 11 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m., live from the College Football Hall of Fame.
The following announcers will make up the broadcast teams this year:
Friday, December 12:
Class A (Public)
Play-by-Play – John Koon (Vidalia Communications)
Color – John Pournelle (Vidalia Communications)
Sideline – Jeff Raiford (Vidalia Communications)
Class AAA
Play-by-Play – Tony DeLoach (Broadcast South)
Color – Jay Palmer (Palmer Media)
Sideline –Bucky Kennedy (Vidalia Communications)
Class AAAAA
Play-by-Play – Chris Mooneyham (Dickey Broadcasting)
Color – Scott Janovitz (Dickey Broadcasting)
Sideline – Justin Hanover (Dickey Broadcasting)
Saturday, December 13:
Class A (Private)
Play-by-Play – John Pournelle (Vidalia Communications)
Color – Jeff Raiford (Vidalia Communications)
Sideline – Jay Palmer (Palmer Media Group)
Class AA
Play-by-Play – John Koon (Vidalia Communications)
Color – Bucky Kennedy (Vidalia Communications)
Sideline – Jeff Raiford (Vidalia Communications)
Class AAAA
Play-by-Play – Jay Palmer (Palmer Media Group)
Color – Tommy Palmer (Palmer Media Group)
Sideline – Tony DeLoach (Broadcast South)
Class AAAAAA
Play-by-Play – Karl Werl – (Dickey Broadcasting)
Color – Doug Konkel (Dickey Broadcasting)
Sideline – Brandon Joseph (Dickey Broadcasting)
Producer & Engineers – Marvin McIntyre, Chester Proctor & John Clark
Spotter – Chuck Steptoe
Runners – David & Derek
Games are barter and affiliates have 14 minutes for local sale in each game. All games will feed live on the GNN-B (Right) channel. Relays will be included for automation.
Sign up to carry specific games or all seven by contacting John Clark JohnClark@GeorgiaNewsNetwork.com / (404-962-7007) with the games you will carry and call letters of each station carrying a game.
Games are city of license exclusive. Stations that have carried a team's regular season games may carry locally-produced broadcasts. In such cases GNN reserves the right to place its broadcast of that game on another station in the market. GNN also reserves the right to place a game your station elects not to carry on another station in your market.