Ohio High School Athletic Association

The Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) is the governing body of athletic programs for junior and senior high schools in the state of Ohio. The OHSAA governs eligibility of student athletes, resolves disputes, organizes levels of competition by divisional separation of schools according to attendance population, and conducts state championship competitions in all the OHSAA-sanctioned sports.

Membership

There are approximately 820 member high schools and 850 more schools in the 7th-8th grade division of the OHSAA. Most public and private high schools in Ohio belong to the OHSAA.

Structure

Districts

The Association is divided into six districts, each with its own District Athletic Board, including the Central District, East District, Northeast District, Northwest District, Southeast District, and Southwest District.

The District boards conduct Sectional and District tournaments. The main OHSAA board conducts Regional and State tournaments.

Classifications and divisions

Community media

Community media is any form of media that is created and controlled by a community, either a geographic community or a community of identity or interest. Community media is separate from commercial media, state run media, or public broadcasting.

Definition and function

Community media has been described, in a broad sense, as "community communication"

The International Association of Media and Communication Research states that community media "originates, circulates, and resonates from the sphere of civil society". As media created by civil society, there is an implied component of civic engagement in the production of community media.

The nascent impetus for community media analysis stemmed from the efforts to "democratize" the media. and civil society requires communication platforms.

Commercial influences

Although there is a clear aversion to engage with commercial forces in the production of community media, there may be times when some market interaction is desirable.

Grassroots media

Waycross Community Media

Waycross Community Media (WCM) is a Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable tv center located near Cincinnati, Ohio. The organization is named after the street it is located on—2086 Waycross Road in Forest Park, Ohio.

WCM programming can be seen on Time Warner Cable in the Cincinnati suburbs of Forest Park, Greenhills, Springfield Township and Colerain Township

WCM is composed of four channels:

Division II

Division II or Division 2 may refer to:

In sport leagues

Other uses

See also