MHSAA TV Set for Broadcast Boom
September 6, 2017
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
More than 40 Michigan high school games are scheduled to be streamed live online over the next week, produced by MHSAA School Broadcast Program members on the NFHS Network.
In its ninth year, the School Broadcast Program gives members an opportunity to showcase excellence in their schools by creating video programming of athletic and non-athletic events, with students gaining skills in announcing, camera operation, directing/producing and graphics. The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
All sporting events – live or delayed - are available on a subscription basis only for their first 72 hours online. They become available for free, on-demand viewing approximately 72 hours following their completion.
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by SBP members:
Tuesday, Sept. 5
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Burton Bentley at Otisville Lakeville, 5 p.m.
- Varsity Boys Soccer - Coopersville at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Burton Bentley at Otisville Lakeville , 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 6
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Caro at Freeland, 5 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Clare at Harrison, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Fennville at Wyoming Lee, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Clare at Harrison, 6 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 7
- Freshman Football - Vicksburg at Plainwell, 4:30 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Chassell at Calumet, 4:30 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Sparta at Comstock Park, 5 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Marlette at Otisville Lakeville, 5 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Chassell at Calumet, 5:30 p.m.
- Freshman Football - Corunna at Freeland, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Sparta at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Football - Vicksburg at Plainwell, 6:15 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Chassell at Calumet, 6:30 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Football - Kingsford at Norway, 6:30 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Marlette at Otisville Lakeville, 6:30 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 8
- Varsity Football - Sturgeon Bay at Norway, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Shepherd at Freeland, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Coopersville at Comstock Park, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Houghton Lake at Clare, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Hurley at Calumet, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - West Bloomfield at Lake Orion, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Traverse City Central vs. Traverse City West, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Lincoln Alcona at Rogers City, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 9
- Junior Varsity Boys Soccer - Holland at Plainwell, 9:30 a.m.
- Varsity Boys Soccer - Holland at Plainwell, 11 a.m.
Monday, Sept. 11
- Varsity Boys Soccer - Grand Rapids Forest Hills Eastern at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 12
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Crystal Falls Forest Park at Norway, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Coopersville at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Goodrich at Otisville Lakeville, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Boys Soccer - Hopkins at Wyoming Lee, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Goodrich at Otisville Lakeville , 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Goodrich at Otisville Lakeville, 6:30 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Crystal Falls Forest Park at Norway, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 13
- Junior Varsity Boys Soccer - South Haven at Plainwell, 5 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Shepherd at Freeland, 5 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Sanford Meridian at Harrison, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Sanford Meridian at Harrison, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Shepherd at Freeland, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Boys Soccer - South Haven at Plainwell, 6:45 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Shepherd at Freeland, 7 p.m.
NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $9.95 per month. Subscribers will have access to all live video and streaming statistics across the country. All content becomes available for free, on- demand viewing 72 hours after being shown live. School Broadcast Program participants will also be selling Season and Annual Passes at a discounted rate. A portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program.
A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA website.
Highlights of games produced in the past week by MHSAA School Broadcast Program members are in their second week. Featured games are in football with Calumet at Negaunee, Indian River Inland Lakes at Rogers City, and our first football highlights from a Pixellot school – Ishpeming at Norway. Highlights can be found each week on the MHSAA.tv website, the home page of the MHSAA Website, and the MHSAASports Channel on YouTube.
More than 15 football games are featured each week on the State Champs! Sports Network Extra Point – powered by the Michigan High School Athletic Association – Saturday at 10 a.m. on FOX Sports Detroit.
The half-hour program features highlights from more than a dozen games each week, including clips from games produced by MHSAA School Broadcast Program members. The program airs multiple times each weekend on FOX Sports Detroit and on Comcast Channel 900, and will be archived on the State Champs YouTube Channel. Consult your local listings for additional playback times.
Here is the projected list of games to be featured on this week’s edition of MHSAA Extra Point:
- Detroit Denby at Detroit Central
- East Grand Rapids at Lowell
- Flat Rock at Milan
- Macomb L'Anse Creuse North at New Baltimore Anchor Bay
- Bloomfield Hills at Clarkston
- Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Farmington Hills Harrison
- West Bloomfield at Lake Orion
- Houghton Lake at Clare
- Sturgeon Bay at Norway
- Plus additional games from the Grand Rapids and Lansing areas, Northern Lower Peninsula and Upper Peninsula.
The MHSAA also has a presence on other State Champs! Network programs throughout each weekend. The MHSAA Minute is a weekly part of the State Champs! High School Sports Show on FOX Sports Detroit at 9 a.m. every Sunday – with multiple replays on FOX Sports Detroit and Comcast Channel 900 throughout the week. That program also is archived on the State Champs YouTube Channel. Consult your local listings for additional playback times.
This week’s MHSAA Minute is the third of a three-part series on football rules changes for 2017, with this edition talking primarily about face guarding and defensive pass interference.
The MHSAA also has content on the State Champs Scoreboard! High School Football Radio Show on Friday nights during the football and basketball seasons, originating on WXYT-FM (97.1) in Detroit and carried on more than 10 radio stations across the state. This Week In High School Sports and Be the Referee are weekly features on the program.
Football Finals Re-Air for Christmas
December 20, 2016
By John Johnson
MHSAA Communications Director
FOX Sports Detroit will present Michigan high school football fans with eight presents on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, re-airing the championship games from the 2016 MHSAA 11-Player Football Playoffs – presented by the Michigan Army National Guard.
The action begins at 4 p.m. each day, with the odd-numbered divisions being shown on Christmas Eve and the even-numbered title games on Christmas Day in the order they were played at Ford Field in Detroit.
Here’s the complete schedule:
Dec. 24
4 p.m. – Division 8 – Muskegon Catholic Central 35, Ottawa Lake Whiteford 6 – Muskegon Catholic Central broke this one open in the second half. QB Cameron Martinez ran for 154 yards and one TD while passing for a second score.
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6 p.m. – Division 2 – Detroit Martin Luther King 18, Walled Lake Western 0 – King does it with defense, picking off four Western passes and returning two of them for touchdowns.
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8 p.m. – Division 6 – Jackson Lumen Christi 26, Maple City Glen Lake 14 – Bo Bell comes up big for Lumen Christi, rushing for 238 yards and one TD.
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10 p.m. – Division 4 - Grand Rapids Catholic Central 10, Detroit Country Day 7 – This one was dominated by the defenses. The only GRCC first down of the day came on a fourth-quarter 44-yard touchdown pitch-and-catch from Jack Bowen to Michael Brown.
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Dec. 25
4 p.m. – Division 7 – Pewamo-Westphalia 28, Detroit Loyola 14 – Nothing can stop the PW Pirates. Jimmy Lehman throws for two touchdowns and rushes for a third against the Loyola Bulldogs.
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6 p.m. – Division 1 – Detroit Cass Tech 49, Detroit Catholic Central 20 – Cass Tech QB Rodney Hall ties a Final game record with five touchdown passes against DCC.
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8 p.m. – Division 5 – Grand Rapids West Catholic 43, Menominee 7 - Gaetano Vallone passes for 311 yards and four scores as the Falcons fly over the Maroons.
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10 p.m. – Division 3 – Orchard Lake St Mary's 29, Muskegon 28 – This went down to the wire. Ky’ren Cunningham dives to catch an 18-yard pass from Caden Prieskorn with four seconds to go to give the Eaglets the win.
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DVD’s cost $24.95, and Instant Audio Downloads are $4.99.
Things are winding down for the holidays on MHSAA.tv with School Broadcast Program members heading into a break.
In its eighth year, the School Broadcast Program gives members an opportunity to showcase excellence in their schools by creating video programming of athletic and non-athletic events, with students gaining skills in announcing, camera operation, directing/producing and graphics.
The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
All sporting events – Live or On-Demand – are available on a subscription basis only for their first 72 hours online. They become available for free, on-demand viewing approximately 72 hours following their completion.
Here’s the schedule of events School Broadcast Program members plan to stream the rest of the month for broadcast at MHSAA.tv. On-Demand listings may be available as soon as one hour following an event’s completion. (List as of Dec. 16):
Tuesday, Dec. 20
- Boys Basketball – Romeo at Lake Orion, 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Zeeland West at Comstock Park, 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Petoskey at Alpena, 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Escanaba at Marquette, 7:10 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 21
- Girls Basketball – Sault Ste. Marie at Alpena, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 22
- Ice Hockey – Kingsford at Marquette, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 3
- Girls Basketball – L’Anse at Calumet, 7:20 p.m.
The NFHS Network has announced new pricing for 2016-17, eliminating the Day Pass and lowering the cost of a Month Pass to $9.95. Subscribers will have access to all live video and streaming statistics across the country. All content becomes available for free, on-demand viewing 72 hours after being shown live. Some schools also will be selling Annual Passes at a discounted rate. A portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program.
A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA website.
Fans can also access scores of games in-progress on the NFHS Network website via ScoreStream. Click on the Scores button in the upper right corner.