- Prep Ticket
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company_name = Prep Ticket
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company_type =High School &College Athletics
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foundation = July 2006
founder = GameDay Productions
location_city =Ft. Worth, TX
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divisions =Sports Stars of Tomorrow
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company_slogan = Your Ticket to Sports Action.
url = [http://www.prepticket.com/ PrepTicket.com]
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website_type = Sports news & social networking site
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intl =Prep Ticket (abbreviated "PTO") is a website that offers professionally produced video, photos, and news of
high school andcollege athletics from across theUnited States . Prep Ticket is also a video andphoto sharing website where users can upload, view and sharecontent . Along with localized and national high school and college sports news, PTO offers individual school pages where users can become a "favorite" of.Primarily, PTO has done extensive coverage of Texas
high school athletics over the past three years, and is known as the leader in aggregation of video and photos from Texas high schoolfootball andbasketball games.PTO is partnered with
Sports Stars of Tomorrow , a nationallysyndicated high school sportstelevision show hosted byPat Summerall featuring the top prepathletes in the country. [http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/01/targetvision_adds_2_series.php Pursell, C. (2008, January 13).TargetVision Add 2 Series] ] Video clips from the show are featured in the national section of site.Prominent athletes that have been featured on Prep Ticket are:
Matt Barkley ,Garrett Gilbert ,Tyreke Evans ,Michael Beasley ,Greg Oden ,Tim Tebow , Andrew Luck, and Aundre Dean. [http://cbs2.com/ssot (2007).CBS 2 SST video player] .]Contents of a Prep Ticket profile
PTO's online social community is based on the
Ning platform. Users are offered an interactive way to communicate with other members through personal profiles,blogs , video and photocommenting . Prep Ticket allows users to customize their user profile pages throughHTML . Members can also upload personalmusic playlists for their profile page.History
Prep Ticket was founded by GameDay Productions, a private
television production company based inFort Worth ,Texas . The site was launched as a test in2006 with most high school sports coverage coming from theBeaumont, Texas area. Since2007 , high school and college sports coverage has expanded to nationwide.
[
right|300px|thumb|The_http://www.prepticket.com/video/market/tx/school/southlake--carroll--texas--hs Southlake Carroll High School] " (TX) page on Prep Ticket]Contributors
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Pat Summerall (2007-Present)
*James Harris (2006-Present)
*Jerome Butler (2006-Present)
*Joe McCann (2007-Present)
*Mario Zavala (2007-Present)
*Josh Bostic (2006-Present)
*Kyle Bresette (2007-Present)
*Brandon McAuliffe (2007-Present)
*Mike Rigg (2008-Present)
*David Watkins (2006-2007)
*Derrick Jackson (2006-2008)References
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