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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-March 5, 2003
Contact: John Johnson or Randy Allen
517.332.5046 or www.mhsaa.com
Expanded Audio/Video
Coverage For Girls Volleyball,
Boys Basketball Finals
EAST LANSING, Mich. - March 5 - The finals of Michigan High School
Athletic Association tournaments in girls volleyball and boys
basketball will be broadcast to statewide audiences this year
in an expanded coverage package.
Television coverage of the events will be provided exclusively
on Fox Sports Net Detroit. The MHSAA will produce full match
coverage the Girls Volleyball Finals for tape-delayed airing
on Fox Sports Net on March 30. Fox Sports Net Detroit will produce
and air the final games of the Boys Basketball Tournament live
on March 22 for the sixth straight year as part of its contract
with the MHSAA. In addition, Fox Sports Net Detroit will be running
MARCH MAGIC commercials throughout the month of March, promoting
all MHSAA championships.
Here is the telecast schedule: Girls Volleyball - Class D, March
30, Noon; Class C, March 30, 1:30 p.m.; Class A, March 30, 3
p.m.; and Class B, March 30, 4:30 p.m. Boys Basketball - Class
D, March 22, 10 a.m.; Class C, March 22, 12:30 p.m. (time approximate
after Class D game); Class A, March 22, 4 p.m.; and Class B,
March 22, 8 p.m.
In addition, each telecast will reair according to the following
schedule:
Girls Volleyball -- April 5 - Class D - 6 p.m.; April 12 - Class
C - 4:30 p.m., and Class A - 6 p.m.; April 18 - Class D - Noon,
and Class C - 1:30 p.m.; April 24 - Class A - 1:30 p.m.; April
25 - Class B - Noon; and April 27 - Class B - 1 p.m. Boys Basketball
- April 26 - Class D - 5 p.m., and Class C - 7 p.m.; May 4 -
Class A - Noon, and Class B - 2 p.m. Additional replays are pending.
The Michigan Talk Radio Network of Charlevoix, will produce audio
broadcasts of the Girls Volleyball Finals and the Boys Basketball
Semifinals and Finals. This is the first year of audio coverage
for the Girls Volleyball Finals, with the broadcast available
to stations wishing to pick up the feed, and to the public via
the Internet through the MHSAA Web Site.
Stations on the Boys Basketball Finals network are:
WABJ-AM - Adrian; WQBX-FM - Alma; WATT-AM - Cadillac; WKYO-AM
- Caro; WMKT-AM - Charlevoix; WCBY-AM - Cheboygan; WIDG-AM -
Cheboygan/St. Ignace; WTVB-AM - Coldwater; WVFN-AM - East Lansing;
WCHT-AM - Escanaba; WDBC-AM - Escanaba; WBBL-AM - Grand Rapids;
WWJQ-AM - Grand Rapids; WSCG-AM - Greenville; WMPL-AM - Hancock;
WHKB-FM - Houghton; WMIQ-AM - Iron Mountain; WIKB-AM - Iron River;
WIKB-FM - Iron River; WIBM - Jackson, WKLZ-AM - Kalamazoo; WKLA-AM
- Ludington; WMTE-AM - Manistee; WTIQ-AM - Manistique; WDMJ-AM
- Marquette; WIAN-AM - Marquette; WMPX-AM - Midland; WCZY-FM
- Mt. Pleasant; WMMI-AM - Mt. Pleasant; WMHG-AM - Muskegon; WMUS-AM
- Muskegon; WMUS-FM - Muskegon; WSHZ-FM - Muskegon; WNBY-AM -
Newberry; WNBY-FM - Newberry; WOAS-FM - Ontonagon; WMBN-AM -
Petoskey; WMSH-AM - Sturgis; WMSH-FM - Sturgis; and WKJC-FM -
Tawas City;
In addition, six of the eight Semifinal games will be broadcast
locally on WVFN in East Lansing. The 2:50 p.m. Semifinal games
in Classes D and A will not be broadcast locally
In addition, audio of the Semifinal and Final games of the Boys
Basketball Tournament can be accessed live through the home page
of the MHSAA Web Site.
The MHSAA Web Site (www.mhsaa.com) will also be updated periodically
during Final events with scores and additional information. Those
events are: Lower Peninsula Individual Wrestling - Updates every
60 to 90 minutes, and printable brackets will be posted at the
completion of each day; Girls Volleyball - Updates at completion
of each game in a match, with box scores posted at the completion
of each match; All other sports will have summaries posted at
the end of each game or day of competition. Last March, over
9,500 daily visits were made to the MHSAA Web Site.
The MHSAA is a private, not-for-profit corporation of voluntary
membership by over 1,300 public and private senior high schools
and junior high/middle schools which exists to develop common
rules for athletic eligibility and competition. No government
funds or tax dollars support the MHSAA, which was the first such
association nationally to not accept membership dues or tournament
entry fees from schools. Member schools which enforce these rules
are permitted to participate in MHSAA tournaments, which attract
approximately 1.6 million spectators each year.
Farm Bureau Insurance and MEEMIC Insurance
are year-round MHSAA Corporate Partners
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