ABC13 Production will also be Telecasted on Longhorn Network
HOUSTON (January 15, 2016) - The Houston Marathon Committee (HMC) announced today that the 2016 Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon will have an expanded U.S. viewing audience. The races will air live in Houston on ABC-13, in addition to being carried on Longhorn Network and streaming on ESPN3, Sunday, January 17th at 7:00 a.m. CT.
HOUSTON (January 15, 2016) - The Houston Marathon Committee (HMC) announced today that the 2016 Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon will have an expanded U.S. viewing audience. The races will air live in Houston on ABC-13, in addition to being carried on Longhorn Network and streaming on ESPN3, Sunday, January 17th at 7:00 a.m. CT.
The 2016 Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon features 27,000 participants, 7,500 volunteers and over 200,000 spectators, making it the largest single-day sporting event in Houston.
"Our partnership with ABC13 has been extremely beneficial to the success of the Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon and its brand over the years by delivering a consistently entertaining and professional broadcast to their viewers; a fact that has been validated by this new agreement with ESPN3 and Longhorn Network," stated Wade Morehead, Executive Director of the Houston Marathon Committee and Foundation. "Our events have a long and vibrant elite long distance running history, and we are tremendously pleased that ESPN will help expand our audience nationally by presenting our product world-wide on a mobile-friendly medium."
ABC13 will air a three-hour live broadcast of the race from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. CT, along with a 10:35 p.m. CT event recap - The Finish Line. The WATCH ABC app will also carry the morning broadcast, as well as pace camera footage from the four elite races from 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. and a live finish linecam on ABC13.com until 1pm. The 44th running of the race will also be available to fans in the Houston area on WATCH ABC and nationwide on ESPN3 across WatchESPN platforms.
"KTRK-TV has worked with the Houston Marathon for over a decade to help grow awareness of the event," said Henry Florsheim, President and General Manager of ABC-13/KTRK-TV. "We are overjoyed that Houston's largest single day sporting event will now be available to viewers around the region and the country on ESPN's Longhorn Network and ESPN3."
ABC13's programming, helmed by Tom Koch and Gina Gaston, will focus on the four elite races, inspiring stories and features on runners. Rice University Track & Field Coach Jon Warren and 2016 Olympic hopeful and Houston-native Becky Wade will call the play-by-play action the elite races. Also contributing to the broadcast will be ABC13 reporters Bob Slovak, David Nuno, Kaitlin McCulley, Ted Oberg and Samica Knight.
The Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon have featured the finest long distance runners in the world who have won Olympic Medals and Marathon Majors. Houston has a long and successful racing tradition, from staging the 1992 and 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon to hosting 16 U.S. Half Marathon National Championships, and in 2007, two-time Olympian Ryan Hall set the American Half Marathon Record 59:47 that still stands today.
For more information on the 2016 Chevron Houston Marathon & Aramco Houston Half Marathon, visit www.chevronhoustonmarathon.com.
"Our partnership with ABC13 has been extremely beneficial to the success of the Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon and its brand over the years by delivering a consistently entertaining and professional broadcast to their viewers; a fact that has been validated by this new agreement with ESPN3 and Longhorn Network," stated Wade Morehead, Executive Director of the Houston Marathon Committee and Foundation. "Our events have a long and vibrant elite long distance running history, and we are tremendously pleased that ESPN will help expand our audience nationally by presenting our product world-wide on a mobile-friendly medium."
ABC13 will air a three-hour live broadcast of the race from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. CT, along with a 10:35 p.m. CT event recap - The Finish Line. The WATCH ABC app will also carry the morning broadcast, as well as pace camera footage from the four elite races from 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. and a live finish linecam on ABC13.com until 1pm. The 44th running of the race will also be available to fans in the Houston area on WATCH ABC and nationwide on ESPN3 across WatchESPN platforms.
"KTRK-TV has worked with the Houston Marathon for over a decade to help grow awareness of the event," said Henry Florsheim, President and General Manager of ABC-13/KTRK-TV. "We are overjoyed that Houston's largest single day sporting event will now be available to viewers around the region and the country on ESPN's Longhorn Network and ESPN3."
ABC13's programming, helmed by Tom Koch and Gina Gaston, will focus on the four elite races, inspiring stories and features on runners. Rice University Track & Field Coach Jon Warren and 2016 Olympic hopeful and Houston-native Becky Wade will call the play-by-play action the elite races. Also contributing to the broadcast will be ABC13 reporters Bob Slovak, David Nuno, Kaitlin McCulley, Ted Oberg and Samica Knight.
The Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon have featured the finest long distance runners in the world who have won Olympic Medals and Marathon Majors. Houston has a long and successful racing tradition, from staging the 1992 and 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon to hosting 16 U.S. Half Marathon National Championships, and in 2007, two-time Olympian Ryan Hall set the American Half Marathon Record 59:47 that still stands today.
For more information on the 2016 Chevron Houston Marathon & Aramco Houston Half Marathon, visit www.chevronhoustonmarathon.com.
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