How broadcast requests work

Who can request

Approved media outlets. If your outlet isn’t listed when you start typing its name, register your outlet first. CHSAA approves new outlets before they can request rights.

1. Sign in

1. Under Your media outlet, start typing your outlet’s name and pick it.
2. Click Email me a sign-in link. The link goes to your outlet’s liaison on file. Open it in the browser you’ll file from and click Verify and continue. It works once and expires in 24 hours.

To change the liaison, contact the CHSAA media office.

2. Choose what you’ll broadcast

Click New broadcast request. Under 1. What will you broadcast?, pick one:

• One game: a single game.
• Follow a team: every game one team plays in the tournament.
• Full regional: every game in a regional.
• Session: one session of wrestling, track, swimming, cross country or golf.

Games appear once the bracket is set. A game you can’t request shows why, for example Requests close 8 hours before the game. Tick Show games that can’t be requested to see them.

Wrestling, track, swimming, cross country and golf have no brackets. Their broadcast rights are sold per session, and radio for track, swimming, cross country and golf is $20 a session. Pick them on the Session tab. Sessions appear once CHSAA staff schedule them.

3. Choose how

Under 2. How?, pick Radio, Internet video or TV.

When the NFHS Network is producing a game with a full crew, no one else may stream or televise it live, so Internet video and TV are greyed out for it. Radio is still open. An automated NFHS Network stream (such as a Pixellot camera) doesn’t count: the game stays open to your stream.

For internet video or TV, choose Where will the stream go? The price depends on whether an automated NFHS Network stream of the game also runs.

An automated NFHS Network stream on its own isn’t a choice here: it needs no request and has no fee. Request only your own stream.

Radio has its own fee by sport and round. Some games have no radio fee.

4. Check the price and submit

3. Price and submit shows:

• Charged now: what you pay today;
• Full fee, when you pay a share of it;
• Package, for follow-a-team or a regional: how many games it can cover and about the most it can cost;
• Sign-off: whether the host school’s athletic director has to approve it;
• Deadline.

Tick the agreement and click Continue to payment. A free request shows Submit request instead.

5. Pay

• By card: enter the card and click Pay. Your card is saved for later games in a package. Stripe emails a receipt to the request’s contact, and the request page has a Card receipt link you can open or print at any time. Every request you pay for also has an invoice on its request page, numbered with the request ID and showing what you paid, including requests paid before invoices were added.
• By check: click Submit and pay by check. The request goes to the host school right away (at a neutral site it is approved at once), and the check is due in 30 days. Make it payable to CHSAA, with your request ID in the memo, and mail it to:
  Colorado High School Activities Association14855 E. 2nd Ave.Aurora, CO 80011

If you leave without paying by card, nothing is submitted. Click Cancel request to drop it.

Once CHSAA records your check, the request page has a Check receipt showing the amount, the check number, the date it arrived and the invoice number. Each charge and payment is numbered with its request ID, so the invoice, the receipt and the memo on your check all match. If a receipt or invoice didn’t arrive, the CHSAA media office can email you CHSAA’s receipt for any payment, card or check, or the invoice, to the request’s contact or to another address. The email contains the receipt or invoice itself, so you can file it without signing in.

What happens next

• At a school: the host school’s athletic director approves or declines before the deadline, and you’re emailed the answer.
• At a neutral or championship site: it is approved as soon as it is filed.

When it is approved, you get the CHSAA Broadcast Authorization by email, and it is also on the request page. Bring it to the site, printed or on your phone, and show it on request. The host athletic director and the tournament director get a copy too. Its Payment line says how you paid: the amount, by card or check, and the date (and the check number). A card payment also has a link to its receipt, for your records.

If the host declines, doesn’t answer by the deadline, or CHSAA voids the request:

• a card payment is refunded in full;
• by check: if you haven’t sent the check, don’t send it. If you already did, CHSAA mails you a refund check.

Following a team or a regional

You pay for the first game when you submit. Each later game is charged when the bracket sets it, at that game’s fee, up to 5 games in all. Games after the fifth are covered at no charge. If the team is knocked out, nothing more is charged. Later games need no new request: your authorization covers them, and they’re listed under Later games in this package on the request page.

• Paid by card: each later game is charged to the saved card, and you get an email and a Stripe receipt. Each game’s Receipt link is on the request page.
• Paid by check: each later game is invoiced, due in 30 days. You can pay it by card on the request page instead. Once CHSAA records the check, that game has its own Receipt link.
• If the card is declined: you’re still authorized to broadcast the game, but the amount is owed. Until it’s paid, your outlet can’t file new broadcast requests, and its credentials can’t be approved. Pay it by card from the request page.

Late requests

Requests close 8 hours before the game, at every level. In an exceptional case, contact the CHSAA media office. Staff can open a late request for you, and you’ll be emailed a link to pay.

Broadcasting without a request

• Live video of a game the NFHS Network is producing with a full crew is a violation, fined twice the full fee.
• A live stream of any other postseason game without an approved request is billed as if it had been requested: 25% of the full fee when an automated NFHS Network stream of the game also runs, and the full fee otherwise.
• An automated NFHS Network stream (such as a Pixellot camera) is never a violation and needs no request. It doesn’t cover your own stream, which needs its own request.
• A radio request doesn’t cover video. Live video of a game you requested for radio only is billed as a video upgrade of that request, at the full video fee for that game.
• CHSAA bills these after the game. The charge shows as an approved request on this page, and your liaison is emailed an invoice to pay by check within 30 days, the same as paying a request by check.

Questions

CHSAA media office: Rob White, rwhite@chsaa.org.

Policies, credentials and photographer rules: CHSAA media handbook.