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National Signing Day Revisited

Submitted by Jim Wogan on February 8, 2011 - 11:11am

For the first time ever, WATE Sports broadcast our national signing day coverage on-the-air, and over the internet. We started at noon with a live 15 minute report on knoxivi.com. We continued at 2 pm and 4 pm with additonal web coverage.

At 7:30 we hit the air with a live 30 minute special on WATE 6 that was also broadcast on our website wate.com.

Signing day is a monster. I remember doing signing day specials in the mid 1990s with good friend and producer Russ Hollingsworth-- who orginally came-up with the idea. Back then, we were the only local television station doing it.

National signing day coverage has changed. The internet has helped-- or made it more of a monster, depending on your view. 

The photo was taken during a commercial break in our 30 minute Vols Signing Day 2011 special that aired on WATE 6. It shows Josh Woodward of insidetennessee.com checking his cell phone.