WDGC to Broadcast North-South Football 9-18

WDGC will be broadcasting the North-South football game Friday, September 18 at 7:30 PM live from South High. Tune in to hear the play-by-play!

The sophomore game at 5:00 might also be added to the schedule.

Plans are also being made to broadcast the game at hypercast.net, but that is tentative.

New Year, New Plans...

The latest DJ Schedule for WDGC will be posted soon! We have a great year planned.

Cable 99 is working on a new episode of 99Now, which will air on Channel 16 on September 29. Among other things, the show will feature Weird Science with Mr. Redig.

Shane and Scott and a new crew of announcers will be bringing you live coverage of the North High vs. Lyons Township games on Friday, September 11. That's right, they are broadcasting BOTH games that night, at 5:00 and 7:30. Tune in! We plan to have the game on Cable 99 (channel 16--audio only), 88.3FM, and Hypercast.net.

Tune in for more details!

Talk 99 Debuts on Cable 99

Talk 99, a talk/game show produced by the TV 1 and TV2 classes during the 2008-2009 school year is currently running on Cable 99 at 6:00am, 1:00pm, and 8:00pm. Made up of 5 episodes, the programming block features interviews with Mr. Haack, Ms. Graham, Ms. Burritt, Ms. Wlodek-Holland, and Mr. Piekarz. Each episode also features a cooking segment, a student guest talking about school events and clubs, and an exciting game show: Take It or Leave It. Pictured above are DJ Christian, our Negotiator (T.), and the skull of Sir Isaac Newton (who teaches lessons about history during the show).

WDGC at Relay for Life

For the 8th or 9th time in as many years, WDGC has provided sound support and acted as DJs at the Relay for Life held by the American Cancer Society at Carstens Field. The event, from May 12 to May 13 raised over $130,000 to help fight cancer. Pictured above are some members of the 2009-2010 Executive Staff (and Mr. Gullotto) who worked the event. The picture was taken near the tail-end of the event, so if they look groggy...

Graduation 2009: Tri-Cast

Once again, WDGC and Cable 99 (Channel 16 in Downers Grove) are planning on providing live coverage of North High's graduation ceremony, which begins at 7:00 PM on Friday, May 29. Hopefully, we can once again provide live coverage on the internet as well, at www. hypercast.net.

A crew of students will direct and run cameras for the show.

South High's ceremony is being taped and will run on Cable 99 this summer. Copies of both ceremonies will be sent to surrounding communities for possible airing on their cable channels.

UPATE:

We are happy to announce the event went off without a hitch. And we even got a new type of shot for the video. For the first time, Mr. Waite was stationed behind Mrs. Ward as she shook the hands of each graduate after they received their diplomas. It allows for each graduate to be highlighted in a beautiful medium/full shot for the first time. This shot will be edited into the video that is for sale and that will air on Cable 99.

If you are interested in buying a copy, contact jwaite@csd99.org.

6th Annual Media Showcase

On May 22 Cable 99 holds its 6th Annual Media Showcase. The event, at 6:00 PM, in the Auditorium features thirteen short videos created by the TV 1 and TV 2 classes and the Cable 99 club. Films include a parody of Jurassic Park called Jurassic Teacher, a horror movie called Abbasolute Terror with a soundtrack consisting solely of ABBA music, and a video about a young man who loves Hot Fries so much he marries a bag of them. The videos are the product of many hours of work by many people, and we are proud to showcase them.

Voice of The Trojans: A Saga Ends

For the past four years there has been an entity whose loyalty to Trojan sports rivals that of the band, the cheerleaders, and even the most devout Superfans. Rain or shine, WDGC sports radio under the direction of Philip Vainikos has made it to every home and playoff football game, a plethora of home and away basketball games, and even a few baseball games.

The announcing team of Philip Vainikos and Dan Morrill has developed a professional sound perfected over three years of yelling “Trojans win!” together. In an attempt to improve the quality of their broadcasts Phil and Dan conduct extensive pre-game research, informative pre-game, in-game and post-game interviews, and produced segments. One such produced segment, “Full Court Press,” allowed listeners to familiarize themselves with the senior basketball players through entertaining personal interviews. Folks were able to learn that Kam Norton’s favorite’s video game is Super Smash Brothers, and Tommy Benton would like to have lightning shoot from his fingertips if he had a super power.

Not surprisingly, this commitment to radio excellence requires a huge time commitment. Not only do the games themselves take up a lot of time, but Phil and Dan allow up to two hours for pre game research, and two more hours to set up the broadcast equipment. They were a self-sufficient radio behemoth; Phil and Dan learned all the technical aspects of broadcasting on top of announcing skills. Now, after three years of perfecting the technical logistics to optimum efficiency, Phil is in the process of re-writing the manual for all the sports radio equipment. All TV/Radio technical crews now follow a system that Phil and Dan grounded as a standard.

As these two legendary announcers move on in their lives, they leave the WDGC sports radio program with trained successors. Phil and Dan have trained two new rookies, Scott Boulter and Shane Gustafson, to continue broadcasting at the same professional level with an expectation that Scott and Shane will strive to improve the program. However bright the future looks for WDGC sports radio, it was without a doubt a tearful event during the remote “White Out” broadcast from York HS when Phil and Dan (pictured above) signed off for the last time saying “from WDGC, this is Philip Vainikos and Dan Morrill saying thank you and goodnight.”