Contact:  John Johnson
517.332.5046 or [email protected]

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Jan. 23 - Game Night on the MHSAA Network this week features an ice hockey doubleheader from last week in the Capital Area Activities Conference with Jackson Lumen Christi against the Eastside Stars co-op team of Haslett, Williamston, Bath, East Lansing and Laingsburg; and Okemos facing the DeWitt-St. Johns co-op.

For media outlets in Comcast service areas, here are the day by day listings for the coming week of MHSAA Network programming on Channel 900.  We would appreciate it if you could run at least the Wednesday and Thursday listings, as they are the first air times for new content each week:

January 25
7 p.m. - Ice Hockey - Jackson Lumen Christi v. Eastside Stars (Haslett, Williamston, Bath, East Lansing, Laingsburg co-op) - Taped 1-20-12 - MHSAA Game Night Coverage
9:30 p.m. - Ice Hockey - Okemos v. DeWitt/St. Johns co-op, Taped 1-20-12 - MHSAA Game Night Coverage

January 26
9 a.m. - Ice Hockey - Jackson Lumen Christi v. Eastside Stars - Taped 1-20-12 - MHSAA Game Night Coverage
8 p.m. - Girls Basketball - Grand Haven at Grand Rapids Catholic Central - Taped 1-17-12

January 27
9 a.m. - Girls Basketball - Grand Haven at Grand Rapids Catholic Central - Taped 1-17-12

January 28
Noon - Girls Basketball - New Boston Huron at Grosse Ile - Taped 1-18-12
3 p.m. - Ice Hockey - Okemos v. DeWitt/St. Johns co-op, Taped 1-20-12 - MHSAA Game Night Coverage
9:30 p.m. - Ice Hockey - Jackson Lumen Christi v. Eastside Stars - Taped 1-20-12 - MHSAA Game Night Coverage

January 29
9 a.m. - Ice Hockey - Okemos v. DeWitt/St. Johns co-op, Taped 1-20-12 - MHSAA Game Night Coverage
Noon - Girls Basketball - New Boston Huron at Grosse Ile - Taped 1-18-12
3 p.m. - Girls Basketball - Grand Haven at Grand Rapids Catholic Central - Taped 1-17-12
7 p.m. - Ice Hockey - Jackson Lumen Christi v. Eastside Stars - Taped 1-20-12 - MHSAA Game Night Coverage

Each week’s featured games will be available for on-demand viewing on the MHSAA.tv Website the day after their initial playback on Comcast; and a number of events will be available for Comcast subscribers to watch through its Xfinity Video On Demand service. Here’s the current listings for MHSAA Network content on Xfinity Video On Demand:

Available January 12 through January 30
Girls Basketball - Bloomfield Hills Andover at Royal Oak
Girls Basketball - Detroit Country Day at East Lansing
Boys Basketball - Holland at Grand Rapids Northview
Boys Basketball - Ypsilanti at Ann Arbor Huron
Boys Basketball - Flint Carman-Ainsworth at Grand Blanc
Boys Basketball - Grosse Pointe North at Warren DeLaSalle
Girls Basketball - Flushing at Flint Northwestern
Girls Basketball - Lincoln Park at Dearborn Heights Crestwood

The complete schedule of upcoming MHSAA Network productions on Comcast Channel 900 and the MHSAA.tv website can be found exclusively online by clicking on MHSAA.tv and selecting TV Schedule.  For a comprehensive schedule of MHSAA Finals coverage with all of its broadcasting partners can be found under the MHSAA Network heading on the MHSAA Website.

Here’s where the MHSAA Network cameras will be this week:

January 24
Boys Basketball – East Detroit at Utica

January 26
Girls Basketball – Napoleon at Michigan Center – MHSAA Game Night Coverage

January 27
Boys Basketball – Gibraltar Carlson at Taylor Truman

The MHSAA.tv Website is being populated with content from member schools from both peninsulas participating in the Digital Broadcasting Program.  A total of 65 schools are involved in the program from the Big 8 Conference, Big 9 Conference, Detroit Catholic High School League, Charter School Conference, Downriver League, Flint Metro League, Genesee Athletic Conference, Huron League, Kalamazoo Valley Association, Kensington Lakes Activities Association, Macomb Area Conference, Michigan Interscholastic Hockey League, Northwest Conference, Oakland Activities Association, O-K Conference, Saginaw Valley League, Southeastern Conference, Southwestern Athletic Conference, Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (Big 16), Tri-Valley Conference, West Michigan D League, West-Pac Conference and the Wolverine Conference.

Here are student-produced games posted to the MHSAA.tv Website from last week:

Boys Basketball
East Kentwood at Jenison - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28596
Otsego at Plainwell - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28527
Portage Northern at Portage Central - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28579
Kalamazoo Hackett at Kalamazoo Christian - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28564
Three Rivers at Plainwell - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28374
Baraga at Calumet - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28215

Girls Basketball
Otsego at Plainwell - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28562
Trenton at Woodhaven – First Half - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28371 -- Second Half - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28509
Melvindale at Woodhaven – First Half - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28380 ; Second Half - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28381
DeWitt at East Lansing - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28421
Corunna at Owosso - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28463
Imlay City at Montrose - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28229

Ice Hockey
Orchard Lake St. Mary’s v. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/25338
Wyandotte Roosevelt at Orchard Lake St. Mary’s - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28593 - Second Period - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28594; Third Period - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28595
Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood at Warren DeLaSalle - http://www.mhsaa.tv/cranbrook/events/25339

Wrestling
Southgate Anderson at Woodhaven - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28486
Hartford & Lawton at Bangor - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/28492

In addition to these athletic events, there were 37 other school-produced events ranging from daily newscasts, to concerts, to school board meetings and historical football highlights piece were posted to the MHSAA.tv Website last week.  A total of 1,330 events have been posted since the beginning of the school year. A record total of 1,479 student produced athletic and non-athletic event videos were posted to MHSAA.tv during the 2010-11 school year.  

The MHSAA.tv Website registered a record 1.48 million pageviews during the 2010-11 school year.  In addition, there were approximately 400,000 pageviews generated by MHSAA Network content being streamed live on FoxSportsDetroit.com. So far this year, MHSAA Network content has generated nearly 640,000 pageviews.

Watch for more schools to begin posting more content in even more sports in the weeks ahead.  Schools interested in becoming a part of the Digital Broadcasting Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.

The MHSAA Network delivers coverage of regular season and MHSAA Tournament competition across multiple platforms  -- cable television, radio and the internet – to fans of high school sports across the state and around the world.  In addition to providing content to cable partners Comcast Television and Fox Sports Detroit, the MHSAA Network features two websites – MHSAA.tv and MHSAANetwork.com – where fans can click to view or listen to content; and a radio network of over 40 stations statewide which annually carry the MHSAA Basketball Finals and the commentary MHSAA Perspective, which airs for 30 weeks during the school year.

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