Episcopal HS Football returns to the airwaves for the second straight year! Once again,  Episcopal HS Football games are broadcasted on the radio and the Internet.  All 10 regular season games and playoff games are carried on WXOK, 1460AM, Baton Rouge and on the Internet at SportsGumbo.net.  Broadcasts  start 30 minutes prior to kickoff.  The first broadcast-- Friday, September 2, 6:30 pm, with the Knights travelling to Albany HS.  Episcopal High School Football broadcasts are a Jon Fine Sports Production.  WXOK Radio is a Cumulus Broadcasting station.

Episcopal HS is the 4^th Baton Rouge area high school to have its football games professionally broadcast on the radio/Internet, joining Catholic HS, Central HS and Denham Springs HS.  These latter 3 schools are class 5A schools.  Episcopal HS competes at the 2A level.

The broadcast team for EHS football is Chris Ledoux on play-by-play, with Blake Smith providing color commentary.  Chris and Blake return for their second season calling Knights football games.  Ledoux is a former high school football player and coach at Opelousas High School.  He called play-by-play for Walker HS Internet broadcasts from 2006-2008.  Smith, a local engineer, was a standout football player at Episcopal HS.  He played college football and is a graduate of Louisiana Tech.

In addition to producing Episcopal HS Football broadcasts, Jon Fine Sports Productions also produces high school football radio/Internet broadcasts for Central HS (WPFC, 1550AM, Baton Rouge/SportsGumbo.net) and Denham Springs HS (The Score, 1210AM, Baton Rouge/SportsGumbo.net).   Area weekly radio/Internet coaches shows produced by Jon Fine Sports Productions include The Dru Nettles Show (Thursdays, 7pm-8pm, broadcasting live from Big Mike’s Sports Bar & Grill in Denham Springs, The Score, 1210AM, BR/SportsGumbo.net) The Sid Edwards Show (Thursdays, 5pm-6pm, broadcasting live from Fox’s Pizza Den in Central, WPFC, 1550AM, BR/SportsGumbo.net) and Plaquemine Sports Weekly (Tuesdays, 8am-9am, KKAY, 1590AM, River Parishes,BR/SportsGumbo.net). Jon has been a Baton Rouge sports talk radio host/producer since 1991.  He presently hosts and produces Monday Morning Quarterback (Mondays, 8am-9am, KKAY, 1590AM, River Parishes/BR…SportsRadio-1310-KEZM-Lake Charles/SportsGumnbo.net).

The 2011 Episcopal HS Football broadcasts include a 30 minute pre-game show, “The Cypress Mounds—Episcopal Knights Warm-Up”, which features an interview with Knights head football coach Travis Bourgeois.  At halftime, the “Capital City Grill Half-Time Report” will include an interview with a prominent EHS figure.  During a 30 minute post-game show, “The Syntergy Episcopal Knights Wrap-Up”, there will be another interview with Coach Bourgeois.

All hydration breaks will be brought to you by Cracker Barrel stores on “The Cracker Barrel Hydration Break.”    

Our 20ll Broadcasting schedule.

                   2011 Episcopal Football Schedule

                 WXOK, 1460AM, Baton Rouge/SportsGumbo.net

    Airtimes listed

September 2                            @ Albany                                                        6:30pm

September 9                            @ACHS                                                         6:30pm

September 16                          @Country Day                                               3:30pm

September 23                          Christian Life                                                  6:30pm

September 30                          Many (Homecoming)                                      6:30pm

October 7                                University                                                       6:30pm

October 14                              Redemptorist                                                  6:30pm

October 21                              @Northeast                                                     6:30pm

October 28                              @Capital                                                         6:30pm

November 4                            Dunham (Senior Night)                                  6:30pm

November 11                          Playoffs (to be determined)

A number of people provided us assistance in facilitating these broadcasts.  They include Episcopal HS Athletics Director Myra Mansur, EHS assistant AD Andrew Wylie,  EHS Football coach Myra Mansur, Otey White of Otey White & Associates, Pepper Rutland, Gary and Michelle Williams, Squires President Jay Graham and a number of EHS parents and/or alums who really “stepped up”.  The corporate support we received from benefactors has been unprecedented in the history of Jon Fine Sports Productions.

A very special thanks to a number of businesses, both inside and outside the “Episcopal community” who have provided the support that has allowed us to broadcast Episcopal HS Football in 2011.  Our 2011 sponsors include:

ACCURATE MEDICAL BILLING

BOUDREAUX & WHITWORTH, A PROFESSIONAL LAW CORPORATION

CAPITAL CITY GRILL

COLLINS-OLIVER, INC.

CRACKER BARREL

CYPRESS MOUNDS

HANNIS T BOURGEOIS, CPA

ROBIN KILPATRICK/HAL CLAUSEN

OSCAR’S ICE CREAM AND PIZZA JOINT

PREMIER OFFICE PRODUCTS

RAISING CANES

SYNTERGY LLC

THOMPSON ELECTRIC SIGN COMPANY

WHOLESALE ELECTRIC SUPPLY

We ask Episcopal HS supporters to kindly patronize these fine businesses.  Please let them know you heard their ads on Episcopal HS football broadcasts. They make these broadcasts possible.

If your business might be interested in sponsoring our Episcopal HS football broadcasts, sponsorship packages are available.  Please contact Jon Fine at Jon@SportsGumbo.net.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL BROADCASTS, A JON FINE SPORTS PRODUCTION, ON WXOK, 1460AM, A CITADEL BROADCASTING STATION, BATON ROUGE AND ON THE INTERNET AT THIS SITE,  WWW.SPORTSGUMBO.NET.