March 28, 2024

IHSSN, IHSAA reach new TV deal for championships

WEST DES MOINES — The Iowa High School Sports Network (IHSSN), in conjunction with the Iowa High School Athletic Association (IHSAA), is pleased to announce a new distribution plan that will allow boys state events to be viewed by a much larger statewide audience.

The new network will be an over-the-air broadcast on six affiliates throughout the state for the IHSAA's state football finals, state wrestling finals and state basketball finals. Those events also will be streamed live for free on the IHSSN website, ihssn.com.

The broadcasts will be available on the stations’ digital channels, which are their dot-2 or dot-3 channels.

Those channels are accessed by subscribing to a local cable company that provides access to the digital channels or by having a television antenna in your home.

Those six affiliates are KDSM 17.3 in Des Moines, KFXA 28.2 in Cedar Rapids, NPTM 42.2 in Omaha (southwest Iowa), NPTH 44.2 in Sioux City, KXLT 47.2 in Rochester (north-central Iowa) and WQAD 8.3 in the Quad Cities.

The football, wrestling and basketball semifinals will be streamed live on the IHSSN website. Other championship events will also be streamed live, and the schedule is available on ihssn.com.

All 95 IHSSN events that are either streamed or broadcast will be digitally archived at archives.ihssn.com and available at no charge.