September 11, 2019
Sports in Kansas founder/CEO Chet Kuplen next up in Business of Sports and Entertainment Speaker Series
Submitted by Brent Fritzemeier
Chet Kuplen, founder/CEO of Sports in Kansas LLC, will be the next speaker in the Business of Sports and Entertainment Speaker Series.
Kuplen's presentation is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 12, and will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the Business Building Lecture Hall.
In just seven years, Kuplen has built the largest online media platform in Kansas for high school sports, with more than 230,000 social media followers. He also hosts four radio shows and several statewide television broadcast teams. Kuplen will talk about building Sports in Kansas from scratch, including branding, marketing, promotions, advertising and sales.
The speaker series is organized by marketing professors Doug Walker and Janis Crow to support their MKTG630: Sports Marketing and MKTG625: Entertainment Marketing courses, as well as the college's business of sports and entertainment certificate program. All speaker series events are open to visitors and no ticket is required.