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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Mechanicsburg, PA) According to a release from the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, Inc. (PIAA), the PIAA and the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters (PAB) have entered a partnership through December of 2026 that will assist local broadcasters and help bring more exposure to student-athletes across PIAA member schools. An annual basis is when both organizations hope to renew this partnership and both organizations have initiated a working group to meet every year for the spirit of this partnership to be enhanced and continued. Several public service announcements for digital, audio and video content highlighting student athletes of the PIAA will be produced by both organizations. Both organizations have a commitment that is shared to media programs of local communities and secondary schools that offer students the potential for them to get industry experience that is hands-on. PAB member stations will help in production, which will help boost cross-marketing opportunities. PAB member radio stations will get an audio broadcasting rights fee discount of 25% audio to cover every round of both the PIAA playoffs and their championship games and those radio stations that are PAB members who broadcast 75% of regular season home contests from a member school will be afforded the opportunity to stream on video the post-season contests of that member school up to the championships (finals), which is included in the agreement for the partnership between the two organizations. The PIAA cut the cost of fees for broadcasting to assist promoting broadcasters that are local and bring increased exposure to high schools across Pennsylvania in 2019. The same fees for media rights through the 2025-2026 school year will continue to be kept by the PIAA.