Friday Night Fever!

Friday Night Fever officially kicked off two weeks ago.

It was more like a Friday Night Fever 'lite' because we were in the midst of the Beijing Olympics.

The Fever is always a great night to work. We have crews hustling and bustling all over Northeast Ohio trying to cover as many of your games as we can to air during our 11pm sports show...

I'm proud to say that Channel 3 Sports started the whole "Friday Night Fever" craze. We were pioneers back in our old East 6th studios. We would cover and air more games than any other station. During our FNF show, we had live high school marching bands in front of the station, big blowups, cheerleaders, Mickey the Ref, 'Chucky,' and the best highlights in town!

We still put on a great FNF show! We have crews covering games east, west, north, south and way down south in the Akron-Canton area.

The whole day starts first thing in the morning with Channel 3 News Today. They have started a new segment called School Spirit Spotlight which will spotlight a different school each week but go BEYOND what is happening on the field. They hope to highlight standout teachers, students, athletes, the bands and even different clubs, organizations or causes special to that school.


Then we have a wonderful segment which airs during our 6pm show previewing the games called The Predictors! Each week, a group of 3 or 4 sports beat reporters and coaches give us their spin on who should win and who they think will win!!!




Not only do we have crews out in the field, but we have employees deployed to various games passing out FNF fliers, making contact with our fans, and gathering up scores from the area games.


Always a crazy night on the news assignment desk starting around 915pm when the phones start lighting up from coaches, parents, and students calling in sports scores. Fortunately, I currently have an intern until about 10pm but then I am on my own!! I know that between 10pm and 1120pm or so, I will do nothing else but answer the telephone.



The best part of our Friday Night Fever celebration is our Newsroom Feast! It's become tradition. There is food galore. Many folks make homemade tasty treats for the occasion or contribute in some way. One of our editors, Pat Woodside, wows the newsroom with his WORLD FAMOUS cookies (tonight peanut butter)....and folks request Pat's Con Queso! When Pat is off, it's a sad FNF!!








Make sure you log onto wkyc.com for all of our Friday Night Fever highlights from your favorite games. And take a look at something new we've started this year: HighSchoolSports.Net. Join in on all the fun!!!!!!