THE WORK. REAL STAKES. REAL TOOLS.
This is not a classroom exercise. Every broadcast is live. Every game counts. Every student is on. We built this program around one belief: you learn to broadcast by broadcasting.
12
weeks of training
48+
hours of experience
30+
portfolio pieces
10+
live productions
mission
Philadelphia has talent. What it's been missing is the pipeline. KRSB Future Voices Academy was built to fix that. We train high school juniors and seniors from Philadelphia public and charter schools to become professional sports broadcasters, on real HBCU game broadcasts, supervised by working professionals. Students graduate with a demo reel, a 30-piece portfolio, and a network, not just a certificate.
The Teaching Hospital for Black Media.
Medical students don't become doctors by reading about surgery. They perform it, supervised, on real patients. FVA operates the same way. Students don't study broadcasting. They broadcast. On live KRSB game feeds. On real HBCU football and basketball games. The press box is the operating room. The microphone is the scalpel. The game is the patient.
cost to students and families: $0
Fully grant and sponsor funded. We are committed to dismantling the economic and access barriers that keep talented Black students out of professional broadcasting.
THE FIRST CALL
On August 29, 2026, Jarod walked into the press box for the first time as a broadcaster. Not a student observer. Not a trainee watching from the side. The lead color analyst. On a live radio broadcast. Camden High versus Imhotep Charter. Real crowd. Real game. Real stakes. He nailed it. That is what this program is built for. A young person with something to say, given the mic, and trusted to deliver. Jarod delivered. This is one fellow. One game. One first call. There are more coming.
