MHSAA News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Dec. 14, 2006
Contact: John Johnson
517.332.5046 or www.mhsaa.com
MHSAA Magazine to Debut on FSN Detroit
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Dec. 14 –A new television program recapping Michigan High School Athletic Association tournament activity makes it debut next week on FSN Detroit, when the fall edition of MHSAA Magazine is shown on Dec. 21 at 7 p.m. The show will also re-air at 10 p.m. that night.
The 30-minute program will include highlights and interviews of all MHSAA postseason tournament action in both the Lower and Upper Peninsulas from the recently-completed schedule, and will also include a feature on St. Ignace High School girls basketball coach Dorene Ingalls, who coached during the 2006 season from a wheelchair after being paralyzed since giving birth to the family’s second child a year ago. The program is being hosted by Mickey York of FSN Detroit.
MHSAA Magazine is an addition to the menu of programming that FSN Detroit is providing this year. Subsequent editions of the show will highlight winter and spring sports. The program will also air during December and January at the following dates and times: Dec. 23, 9:30 a.m.; Jan. 6, 6 p.m.; Jan. 7, 9:30 a.m.; Jan. 18, 2:30 p.m.; and Jan. 20, 9:30 a.m.
“We already know that FSN Detroit does a wonderful job capturing the action and perspective of high school sports, and the MHSAA Magazine show will help provide recognition to all of the Association’s postseason tournaments,” said John E. “Jack” Roberts, executive director of the MHSAA.
The Magazine show will also air at 1:30 a.m, 6:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Friday morning, Dec. 22.
In addition to its telecasts of the MHSAA Boys and Girls Basketball Finals and Football Playoff Finals, FSN Detroit also produced the Selection Sunday Show to announce the football playoff field in October. FSN Detroit will also air MHSAA-produced telecasts of the Girls Volleyball Finals and the Girls Competitive Cheer Finals in April.
FSN Detroit's coverage of the MHSAA goes to more than 3.2 million cable and satellite households throughout Michigan and portions of Northwest Ohio and Northern Indiana. The regional network is home to more than 250 live local events per year among the MHSAA, Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Tigers, Detroit Pistons, Detroit Shock and the Central College Hockey Association. FSN is the nation’s leading provider of local sports. Through its affiliates and other Fox Network Group-owned networks, FSN reaches more than 82 million homes through 25 regional networks.
The MHSAA is a private, not-for-profit corporation of voluntary membership by over 1,800 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.
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