Estimated read time: 2-3 minutes
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
Keith McCord reporting We don't often do stories about competing TV stations, but in this case we'll make an exception.
Here is the story of a couple of neighbors who have become celebrities at Heber City's Wasatch High School.
Meet Tyler and Tyler, preparing for their next 30-minute sports program about to be taped at Wasatch High's TV studios.
"Testing 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8..."
Tyler Moss and Tyler Baird lived next door to each other for years. Both eat and breathe sports, and love to argue about it.
Tyler Baird: "Yeah. Pretty much. It's not like we disagree on everything... But we like to argue...and talk..."
Tyler Moss: "For argument sake it's fun, and we've always played sports with each other."
So for the past three years, they and their 20 or so classmates have produced a sports show called "Crossing the T's, with Tyler and Tyler".
"...Today on the show, we have the first polls in prep baseball we want to share with you..."
During their sophomore and junior years, the program was just only seen within the Wasatch School District. But last summer, Comcast, looking to expand it's high school sports programming, approached the school.
Ray Child, P.R. Dir. Comcast: "And then they told us about "Crossing the T's" and the idea was very intriguing to us, and we ended up putting it on channel 3 and 60 and on Comcast on-demand."
"Crossing the T's" is fast-paced, and a bit out of the box.
In a segment called "Role Play", Tyler Moss interviews... ahem, Dallas Cowboys coach Bill Parcells.
Then, a segment-- called "Rapid Fire"-- to play up their arguing. Here they disagree about how impressive a couple of slam dunks were by a player in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.
Tyler Baird: "Are you kidding me?? Come on..you got to be kidding me.. This is a joke...
Tyler Moss: "What do you mean it's a joke-- I can get that kind of rim!
Tyler Baird: "You know you cant!"
This sports anchor team will graduate this year, but they've created quite a buzz at Wasatch High's broadcast department.
John Moss , TV News, production Teacher: "We have Juniors who have come up and asked can we do this .. And of course I'm always a believer that the answer to that is always yes. Let's try something and see if we can make it work."
But, maybe with a little less arguing!
Comcast airs play by play broadcasts produced by nine high schools now. They are looking for more schools to participate. They're also interested in seeing more unique sports programs like "Crossing the T's".
