SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) – Modifications are coming to a regional sports activities community in Sioux Falls.
Midco Sports activities, which began in 2010, introduced that it needed to “scale back the variety of full-time staff members throughout the Midco Sports activities staff”. Midco Sports activities mentioned in an emailed assertion that it plans to concentrate on enhancing our streaming content material on Midco Sports activities Plus and its college partnership content material on its linear channels.
“At the moment, highschool sports activities and a few authentic programming will not be produced by Midco Sports activities or broadcast on our linear channels,” Midco spokeswoman Paige Pearson Meyer mentioned in an emailed assertion to KELOLAND Information. “Going ahead, the affected staff members could also be affiliated with Midco Sports activities as an (unbiased) crew home.
A type of workers was the play-by-play announcer David Brown, who beforehand labored for KELO-TV. On social media, Brown mentioned: “To say I used to be blindsided can be an understatement.”
“I’ve poured my coronary heart and soul into Midco Sports activities for the previous 11-plus years,” mentioned Brown in a post on X. “I wouldn't commerce the expertise for something.”
Brown mentioned a number of associates and colleagues additionally misplaced their jobs.
Midco Sports activities, which introduced a brand new partnership with the Summit League final summer time, mentioned it communicated the adjustments to the accomplice colleges – North Dakota, South Dakota, South Dakota State and Augustana.
“We’re in these partnerships for the long run and can proceed to concentrate on these relationships,” Pearson Meyer mentioned in an announcement.