BEA Panel: Panelist Needed

The Broadcast Education Association convention is coming up April 9-13 in Las Vegas, and one of the Sports Division panels needs help. Denise Belafonte is seeking panelists for her BEA2011 panel BEA-HD, 2D, 3D "Heightened Dimension" the rise of Sports in 3 Dimensions, Where Do the Colleges Go From Here? If you'd like to be a panelist, or would like more information about the panel, please contact Denise at dbelafonte@lynn.edu.

On the subject of panels, the JSM panel, which features some recently published authors discussing their research, is at 1:15, Monday, April 11. This session will feature Ray Gamache of St. Scholastica talking about "Genealogy of the Sportscast Highlight Form;" Steve Hill and Chang Wan Woo of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will present "New Media, New Audiences and New Questions: Exploring a Communication Research Agenda for Fantasy Sports;" and Tang Tang of Akron and Roger Cooper of Ohio State will offer "The First Online Olympics: The Interactions between Internet Use and Sports Viewing."

There are several sports related panels, papers and research presentations on the program calendar, so I hope you can make it to Vegas in April.