Contact: John Johnson
517.332.5046 or [email protected]
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Oct. 24 - The level of high school sports coverage on the MHSAA Network and its television partners hits a new peak this week with the launch of Prep Zone coverage of the MHSAA Football Playoffs on the FoxSportsDetroit.com Website.
Each week during the Football Playoffs, which begin this Friday (Oct. 28), the MHSAA Network will produce four games to be streamed live on FoxSportsDetroit.com. First round coverage has the following games on the schedule: Romeo at Troy Athens, South Lyon at Holly, Sturgis at Mason, and Saugatuck at Muskegon Catholic Central. All of the games will be archived for on-demand viewing the following week on the MHSAA.tv Website.
Game Night on the MHSAA Network features Southgate Anderson’s upset of Wyandotte Roosevelt in a Downriver League football game last Friday. We also had a District title match in the Division 1 Boys Soccer Tournament between Troy Athens and Sterling Heights Stevenson; and a key Oakland Activities Association showdown between Clarkston and Lake Orion.
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:
October 26
7 p.m. - Football – Wyandotte Roosevelt at Southgate Anderson - Taped 10-21-11 - MHSAA Game Night
9:30 p.m. - Boys Soccer - Sterling Heights Stevenson v. Troy Athens - MHSAA Division 1 District Final at Utica - Taped 10-22-11
October 27
9 a.m. - Football – Wyandotte Roosevelt at Southgate Anderson - Taped 10-21-11 - MHSAA Game Night
October 28
9 a.m. - Girls Volleyball - Lake Orion at Clarkston - Taped 10-18-11
7 p.m. - Football - PREP ZONE COVERAGE - LIVE Exclusively on FOXSportsDetroit.com - Archived at MHSAA.tv
- Romeo at Troy Athens
- South Lyon at Holly
- Sturgis at Mason
- Saugatuck at Muskegon Catholic Central
Midnight - MHSAA Football Friday Overtime - FOX Sports Detroit - LIVE
October 29
11 a.m. - MHSAA Football Friday Overtime - FOX Sports Detroit
3 p.m.- Girls Volleyball - Lake Orion at Clarkston - Taped 10-18-11
9:30 p.m. - Football – Wyandotte Roosevelt at Southgate Anderson - Taped 10-21-11 - MHSAA Game Night
October 30
9 a.m. - Football – Wyandotte Roosevelt at Southgate Anderson - Taped 10-21-11 - MHSAA Game Night
Noon - Girls Volleyball - Lake Orion at Clarkston - Taped 10-18-11
3 p.m. - Boys Soccer - Boys Soccer - Sterling Heights Stevenson v. Troy Athens - MHSAA Division 1 District Final at Utica Taped 10-22-11
7 p.m. - Football – Wyandotte Roosevelt at Southgate Anderson - Taped 10-21-11 - MHSAA Game Night
October 31
9 a.m. - Boys Soccer - Boys Soccer - Sterling Heights Stevenson v. Troy Athens - MHSAA Division 1 District Final at Utica - Taped 10-22-11
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 Video On Demand service. Here’s the current listings for MHSAA Network content on Comcast Video On Demand:
Available September 26 through October 30
Football – Temperance Bedford at Adrian – Taped 9-9-11
Football – Comstock Park at Grand Rapids West Catholic – Taped 9-16-11
Available October 24 through November 14
Girls Volleyball – Monroe Jefferson vs. Carleton Airport – Taped 10-5-11
Boys Soccer – Warren DeLaSalle vs. Birmingham Brother Rice – Taped 10-4-11
Football – Dearborn Divine Child vs. Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard – Taped 10-8-11
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:
October 27
Girls Volleyball – CAAC Gold Cup – Grand Ledge or Haslett vs. DeWitt or Lakewood Lake Odessa
Boys Soccer – MHSAA Division 2 Regional Final at Fenton – MHSAA Game Night Coverage – Lapeer East or Clio vs. Auburn Hills Avondale or Mt. Pleasant
October 28
Football – PREP ZONE COVERAGE LIVE ON FOXSportsDetroit.com – 7 p.m.
- Romeo at Troy Athens
- South Lyon at Holly
- Sturgis at Mason
- Saugatuck at Muskegon Catholic Central
Football – Muskegon at Mattawan – MHSAA 11-Player Division 1 Football Playoffs Pre-District
The MHSAA.tv Website is being populated with content from member schools from both peninsulas participating in the Digital Broadcasting Program. A total of 75 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-Pac Conference and the Wolverine Conference.
Here are student-produced games posted to the MHSAA.tv Website from last week:
Football
Bay City Western at Bay City Central - http://www.mhsaa.tv/baycitycentral/events/23540
Hartford at Watervliet - http://www.mhsaa.tv/watervliet/events/23456
Marquette at Calumet - http://www.mhsaa.tv/calumet/events/23237
Carrollton at Montrose – JV - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/23432
Girls Volleyball
Hartford at Watervliet - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/23455
Yale at Croswell-Lexington - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/22979
Bloomingdale vs. Bangor – JV - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/23294
Boys Soccer
Dearborn Heights Crestwood at Trenton -- http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/23480 & http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/23481
Haslett at East Lansing - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/23389
Linden vs. Fenton - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/23288
East Kentwood at Rockford - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/23418
Holland Black River at Bangor - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/23287
Battle Creek Central at Kalamazoo Central - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/23224
Girls Swimming & Diving
East Kentwood at Rockford - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/23428
In addition to these athletic events, there were 30 other school-produced events ranging from daily newscasts, to interviews, to school board meetings posted to the MHSAA.tv Website last week. A total of 557 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.
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.
Finally – check out the MHSAASPORTS Channel on YouTube. The channel is being populated with game highlights and feature videos from MHSAA Network telecasts.
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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