PBS39 to Broadcast ‘Athlete of the Year Awards’
The CH Foundation’s 6th Annual Athlete of the Year Awards will take place on Tuesday, May 21 at the ArtsQuest Center in Bethlehem.
Bethlehem, PA. - April 30, 2019 - PBS39 will broadcast the CH Foundation's 6th Annual Athlete of the Year Awards beginning at 6:45 p.m. on Tuesday, May 21. The event will be held at the ArtsQuest Center on the SteelStacks campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Seth Joyner, former linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles, will be the keynote speaker. PBS39’s Tracy Yatsko and NBC Sports Philadelphia’s Derrick Gunn will be co-hosting the event. Coverage will kick-off from ArtsQuest’s “Orange Carpet” at 6:45 p.m. followed immediately by the Athlete of the Year Awards from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
“PBS39 is excited to give the Athlete of the Year Awards the recognition it deserves,” said Tim Fallon, Chief Executive Officer at PBS39. “Our broadcast signal reaches more 12 million viewers and this live stream has the potential to reach a brand new audience. We are proud to partner with the CH Foundation in honoring these future leaders of our community.”
The 6th Annual Athlete of the Year Awards is the culmination of the 2018-19 Athlete of the Week scholarship program, which is administered in partnership with The Morning Call and sponsored by Coordinated Health. Each Coordinated Health Athlete of the Week (male and female) recipient receives a $500 scholarship and is then eligible for the Coordinated Health Athlete of the Year Award (male and female) of an additional $10,000 scholarship each.
The region’s top 70 high school student-athletes will be in attendance along with parents, coaches, athletic directors and community leaders. Award winners will be receiving $35,000 in scholarships and vying for an additional $20,000 in scholarships, should they be chosen Athletes of the Year. This year PBS39 will also present the first-ever PBS39 Community Support Award to a local business.
“We are extremely pleased to be working with PBS39 to broadcast and stream this year’s Athlete of the Year Awards,” said Ron Ticho, President of the CH Foundation. “We could not think of a more dynamic communications platform to recognize the achievements of our region’s top student-athletes than through the Lehigh Valley’s public media station. The CH Foundation is committed to supporting local students to serve as future leaders in our community and no organization is more committed to civic engagement and fulfilling the regional needs of the Lehigh Valley than PBS39.”
Watch live on PBS39 or PBS39.org. Visit PBS39's program guide to find the correct channel number on your cable or satellite provider. This event is open to the public. General admission tickets to the event are $15 per person and can be purchased online on the CH Foundation's website. All proceeds from the event will benefit the CH Foundation’s programs in the community.
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About PBS39
PBS39 acts as the catalyst to promote civic engagement, and to fulfill the regional needs of the Greater Lehigh Valley through its dynamic communication platforms and resources. PBS39 Reporter Corps TM journalists are embedded in the ten counties that make up the Greater Lehigh Valley. The PBS39 Reporter Corps TM creates community-focused content for PBS39 News Tonight and for the PBS39 digital platform. PBS39 and the United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley are partnering to fund and fulfill the regional literacy initiative Lehigh Valley Reads. This campaign is working to ensure all Lehigh Valley students read on grade level by the end of third grade by 2025. PBS39, part of Greater Lehigh Valley Public Media, is a community-owned public media station serving eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. PBS39 is licensed in Allentown to the Lehigh Valley Public Telecommunications Corporation. For more information, visit PBS39.org.
About CH Foundation
The CH Foundation is a non-profit 501c3 organization committed to supporting and cultivating students that reside in Northeast Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey to serve as future leaders in our community. Through scholarships and grants, the CH Foundation’s programs seek to cultivate and retain future leaders by supporting their pursuit of greatness in three key areas – leadership, academics and athletics. Among its programs, CH Foundation hosts the annual Athlete of the Year Awards in which more than 70 top student athletes receive scholarships to pursue higher education. For more information and to support the foundation, please visit ch.foundation.