{"id":635,"date":"2015-02-02T14:58:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=635"},"modified":"2015-02-02T14:58:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:58:03","slug":"root-sports-partnership-with-gnac-adds-exposure-for-western","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/root-sports-partnership-with-gnac-adds-exposure-for-western\/","title":{"rendered":"ROOT Sports partnership with GNAC adds exposure for Western"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By RACHEL SHELLEY\r\n Sports Editor<\/pre>\n<p>ROOT Sports serves as a local and regional network for sports broadcasting around<br \/>\nWashington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska, reaching 3.4 million homes. <\/p>\n<p>Regionally, ROOT is operated by DIRECTV in four different regional networks, featured in over 22 states and reaches 13 million households. The network has exclusive programming and distribution partnerships with over 25 teams and conferences including the Northwest region, Pittsburgh, Rocky Mountain and the Southwest.<\/p>\n<p>ROOT sports is home of the Seattle Mariners, Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Sounders<br \/>\nFC, Portland Timbers, and Gonzaga Bulldogs, but most importantly broadcasts for the Great Northwest Athletic Conference and the Western Oregon University Wolves.<\/p>\n<p>Many students have already experienced a ROOT sports game including the women\u2019s<br \/>\nbasketball game on Jan. 24. The men will be televised on Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. when they take on Saint Martin\u2019s in Lacey, Washington. These games are a part of a 10-game GNAC package from December through February.<\/p>\n<p>Students who work during the basketball games get to experience working with a<br \/>\nsports broadcasting network. KWOU Station Manager Iain Dexter had his own positive<br \/>\nexperience broadcasting the game with the ROOT crew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe experience working with ROOT Sports was incredible,\u201d Dexter said. \u201cGetting<br \/>\nthe opportunity to meet and work with them was exciting as a college student. The guys worked with were helpful and easy going, making the experience more enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving ROOT come to Western is great for the exposure of our school and  students,\u201d Dexter said. \u201cHaving a game air in the entire Northwest will hopefully bring more students to our school and bring us more opportunities for exposure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next opportunity for Western exposure will be the men\u2019s basketball game on Feb. 11 but anyone can watch GNAC games throughout February on TV depending on their cable package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RACHEL SHELLEY Sports Editor ROOT Sports serves as a local and regional network for sports broadcasting around Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska, reaching 3.4 million homes. Regionally, ROOT is operated by DIRECTV in four different regional networks, featured in over 22 states and reaches 13 million households. The network has exclusive programming and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}