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'FOX SPORTS NET BAY AREA' TO BROADCAST
HYUNDAI STATE CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL GAME LIVE
Potential Audience of More Than 17 Million
for Title Game December 9
Fox Sports Net Bay Area will televise the 2000 Hyundai California Community College
Football State Championship Presented by Blue Diamond Growers live on December 9
at 1 p.m. from Visalia's Mineral King Bowl, the Commission on Athletics announced
Friday (December 1).
Geoff James, programming manager for Fox Sports Net Bay Area, confirmed the decision
in a letter to VIMA Corporation, the San Jose-based company that produces the football
championship as well as the other telecasts for the California Community College
Commission on Athletics Championship Television Network.
The game, which features the regional champions from northern and southern California,
will have a potential audience of more than 17 million viewers. The Fox Sports Net
Bay Area network covers an area from Fresno to the Oregon State line and from San
Francisco to Reno, NV.
This year's participants will be determined by power rankings calculated following
bowl games being played throughout the state this weekend. The Northern California
representative will be either Fresno City College (10-0) or defending state champion
City College of San Francisco (10-0), who play Saturday (Dec. 2) in the San Francisco
Hawaiian Punch Bowl at Rams Stadium, CCSF.
The Southern California representative isn't as clear, although Bakersfield (9-1),
with a win over Grossmont (9-1) in Saturday's Shrine Potato Bowl at Bakersfield's
Memorial Stadium, would be that selection. However, if Bakersfield loses, Grossmont
could advance, or the bid could go to Mt. San Antonio (8-2), El Camino (8-2) or
Canyons (9-1), depending on the outcome of their bowl games.
James said that negotiations to air the game over Fox Sports West 2, the Southern
California counterpart to Fox Sports Net Bay Area, are in progress and that a favorable
decision is likely if its current schedule can be cleared to make room for the three-and-one-half
hour football telecast.
COA
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