Remember K-NEWS? It covered everything from sports to school plays, but unfortunately it was shut down after 2012 due to not having enough participants.

The Michigan Merit Curriculum graduation requirements had been newly implemented, making it hard for students to find extra time in their schedule for electives not required to graduate.

But in the 2015-2016 school year, a twist off of K-NEWS will be introduced to the school: the Kearsley Broadcast Network.

The Kearsley Broadcast Network will be an after-school club instead of a class, which K-NEWS used to be.

Junior Kyle Ross recently came up with the idea to bring broadcasting back to the school after regularly visiting Davison High School to work out.

While there, Ross became acquainted with Mr. Randy Scott, DTV broadcasting teacher.

Ross worked closely with Davison’s broadcasting program and learned a lot about it through Scott.

“He (Ross) has worked with and shadowed the DTV crew during newscasts and sporting events,” Scott said. “I have showed him a lot of the basics. He is very dedicated to this project.”

DTV is a Public Education Channel programmed by Davison Community Schools, which airs in the Davison area on Charter Communications’ Channel 99.

DTV covers many topics, including news about the school, community, and even foreign countries.

“I want to make a school news station here at Kearsley and give the opportunity to other students who want to be involved in broadcasting,” Ross said.

To get the program started, Ross introduced the idea to Mr. Paul Gaudard, athletics director.

Gaudard supported it right from the start. He will be overseeing the program, serving as its adviser while Ross will be the student in charge.

Gaudard and Ross plan on holding sessions over the summer where students interested in the program will be able to learn how to work the equipment, edit video, learn about audio, and take pictures.

To start off the program, KBN will be covering sports.

Members of the club will be filming the home football games at the beginning of the year and will branch off to other sports and events once the club takes off.

Sporting events will be streamed from the club’s laptop onto its website for people to watch for a small charge.

Subscribers will be able to access the website by clicking on the KBN link at Kearsley’s home page once the link is established sometime in August.

KBN is looking for more members and encourages all students to join.

Current members of KBN are juniors Christopher Ropp, Hunter Dalrymple, Jarrod Cummings, Joe Angliss, and Deanna Wirth, along with sophomore Lacey Thrasher, senior Kevin Mataya, and freshman Katelyn Simon.

Any student interested in joining may contact Ross at [email protected].

Angliss is also joining the club. He said there is room for more people to join, too.

“We have a lot of open spots in KBN, so everyone is welcome to join,” Angliss said.