Football Selection Show Goes Global

October 13, 2015

By John Johnson
MHSAA communications director
 

The watch party of the MHSAA Selection Show on FOX Sports Detroit will go global for the first time Oct. 25, as the 60-minute program announcing the qualifiers and pairings for the MHSAA Football Playoffs also will be streamed online on the FoxSportsDetroit.com website.

Mobile viewing also will be available of the program on FOX Sports GO, which is a free download for Android and iOS devices. The Selection Sunday Show will air live on FOX Sports Detroit at 7 p.m. Oct. 25.

One of the newest members of the MHSAA's School Broadcast Program will debut content Wednesday – live coverage of the Detroit Catholic High School League Boys Soccer Finals. In the first game at 5 p.m., Dearborn Divine Child faces the No. 7 team in the Division 2 coaches poll, Orchard Lake St. Mary's, in the CB title match. The AB championship has Birmingham Brother Rice against Detroit Catholic Central, which is ranked No. 7 in Division 1, at 7 p.m.

The CHSL also will stream its annual football championships Oct. 24 and its girls volleyball finals Oct. 26.

More than two dozen athletic events produced by students involved in the School Broadcast Program are scheduled for the coming week on MHSAA.tv.

In its seventh 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 School Broadcast Program events planned this week at MHSAA.tv. On-Demand listings may be available as soon as one hour following an event’s completion.  (List as of Oct. 13):

Tuesday – Oct. 13

Wednesday – Oct. 14

Thursday – Oct. 15

Friday – Oct. 16

Tuesday – Oct. 20

Weekly highlights from games produced by participants in the MHSAA's School Broadcast Program are back for another school year on MHSAA.TV. This week's highlights are from football games East Kentwood at Rockford and Bloomfield Hills at Lake Orion and a boys soccer semifinal match in the Capital Area Activities Conference Cup between Williamston at East Lansing. Watch this week's highlights below.  

Schools interested in becoming a part of the School Broadcast Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.

Launching at Midnight every Friday throughout the season is MHSAA Football Friday Overtime on FOX Sports Detroit. Mickey York and Rob Rubick host the weekly 30-minute highlights show.  The show will re-air most Saturday and Sunday mornings – and will be archived on the FOX Detroit Website. This week, FFOT will re-air at 6, 8:30 and 11:30 a.m. Saturday; and 7 a.m. Sunday on FOX Sports Detroit. 

The following games are scheduled to be highlighted this week on Football Friday Overtime:

  • Mayville at Detroit Cesar Chavez
  • Southfield at Oak Park 
  • Detroit Catholic Central vs. Warren DeLaSalle at Wayne State University 
  • New Haven at Clawson 
  • St. Clair Shores South Lake at Madison Heights Madison    
  • Plus – SBP Coverage of East Grand Rapids at Lowell and Ironwood at Calumet.

Football Streaming Returns to MHSAA TV

August 27, 2019

By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties

For the third straight year, MHSAA.tv and the NFHS Network will open the high school football season with live streaming video of contests from gridiron festivals in Detroit and Flint.

The action begins at 4 p.m. Thursday (Aug. 29) when Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice and Utica Eisenhower open the 15th Annual Xenith Prep Kickoff Classic at Tom Adams Stadium on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit, and Grand Blanc faces Midland Dow in the Third Annual Vehicle City Gridiron Classic at historic Atwood Stadium in Flint on the campus of Kettering University.

The nightcap games on Thursday are Clinton Township Chippewa Valley vs. Saline at 7 p.m. in Detroit and Goodrich against Flint Powers Catholic in Flint at 7:30 p.m.

Here’s the schedule for the other games:

Prep Kickoff Classic – Detroit

Friday - Aug. 30
Birmingham Groves v. Grosse Pointe South, 4 p.m.
Muskegon v. Warren De La Salle Collegiate, 7 p.m. 
Saturday - Aug. 31
Detroit Catholic Central v. Detroit Martin Luther King, 1 p.m.
Detroit Cass Tech v. Chicago Wendell Phillips Academy, 4 p.m.

Vehicle City Gridiron Classic – Flint

Friday, Aug. 30
Otisville LakeVille v. North Branch, 4 p.m.
Flint Carman-Ainsworth v. Port Huron, 7:30 p.m.

The NFHS Network is also working with FOX Sports Detroit to help promote the 2019 edition of Football Week In Michigan, by making the games in Detroit available to cable or satellite subscribers of that channel on FOX Sports GO!
 
The games in Detroit and Flint are part of a 25-game weekend on the NFHS Network and MHSAA.tv, which is also highlighted by Week 1 showdowns between Pewamo-Westphalia and Reading at Olivet College and Hudson at Ithaca both at 7 p.m. Thursday. 

Here’s a list of the varsity events being broadcast on the network over the coming week: 

Tuesday, Aug. 27
Girls Volleyball - Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. TBD  - 1 PM
Boys Soccer – Ann Arbor Greenhills vs. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood – 4:30 PM
Boys Soccer - Ovid-Elsie  vs. Byron Center Charter School  - 5 PM
Girls Volleyball - Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. TBA  - 5 PM
Boys Soccer - Manchester  vs. Brooklyn Columbia Central   - 5:30 PM
Girls Volleyball – Bloom. Hills Academy of the Sacred Heart vs. Southfield Christian  - 6:30 PM
Boys Soccer - Cedar Springs  vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern   - 6:45 PM
Boys Soccer - Troy Athens vs. Berkley   - 7 PM
Boys Soccer - Novi  vs. Salem   - 7 PM
Boys Soccer - Birmingham Seaholm vs. Bloomfield Hills   - 7 PM
Boys Soccer - South Lyon  vs. Milford   - 7 PM
Boys Soccer - Troy  vs. Clarkston   - 7 PM
Boys Soccer - Lapeer vs. Notre Dame Prep  - 7:30 PM
 
Wednesday, Aug. 28
Boys Soccer – Dexter vs. Saline – 4 PM
Girls Volleyball - Troy Athens vs. TBA  - 5 PM
Girls Volleyball - Freeland  vs. Bay City Western   - 5 PM
Girls Volleyball - Freeland  vs. Gladwin   - 6 PM
Girls Volleyball - Pentwater vs. Hart  - 6 PM
Boys Soccer - Portage Northern  vs. Battle Creek Central   - 6:30 PM
Girls Volleyball - South Lyon East  vs. Whitmore Lake   - 6:30 PM
Boys Soccer – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central vs. Cedar Springs – 6:45 PM
Boys Soccer - Troy Athens vs. Bloomfield Hills   - 7 PM
Boys Soccer - Saline  vs. Dexter   - 7 PM
Girls Volleyball - Fowler vs. Pewamo-Westphalia  - 7 PM
Girls Volleyball - Freeland  vs. Beaverton   - 7 PM
Girls Volleyball - Morley Stanwood  vs. Lakeview   - 7 PM
Girls Volleyball - Ovid-Elsie  vs. Owosso   - 7 PM
 
Thursday, Aug. 29
Boys Soccer - Petoskey  vs. Maple City Glen Lake   - 1 PM
Boys Soccer - Petoskey  vs. Ogemaw Heights   - 3 PM
2019 Xenith Prep Football Kickoff Classic – Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice vs. Utica Eisenhower  - 4 PM
2019 Vehicle City Gridiron Classic – Grand Blanc vs. Midland Dow - 4 PM
Football - Maple City Glen Lake  vs. Millington   - 6 PM
Boys Soccer - South Lyon East  vs. Walled Lake Western   - 6:30 PM
Girls Volleyball – Otisville LakeVille vs. Byron Center Charter  - 6:30 PM
2019 Xenith Prep Football Kickoff Classic – Clinton Twp. Chippewa Valley vs Saline  - 7 PM
Football - Troy Athens vs. Detroit Old Redford Preparatory   - 7 PM
Football - Calumet  vs. Wakefield-Marenisco   - 7 PM
Football - Cedar Springs  vs. Saginaw Swan Valley   - 7 PM
Football - Freeland  vs. Marshall   - 7 PM
Football - Ithaca  vs. Hudson   - 7 PM
Football – Stevensville Lakeshore  vs. Holland West Ottawa   - 7 PM
Football - Birmingham Seaholm vs. Ferndale   - 7 PM
Boys Soccer - South Lyon  vs. Lakeland   - 7 PM
Football - Allegan vs. Plainwell  - 7 PM
Football - Lake Orion vs. Lapeer  - 7 PM
Football - Reading vs. Pewamo-Westphalia at Olivet College  - 7 PM
Football - Zeeland West vs. East Grand Rapids  - 7 PM
2019 Flint Vehicle City Gridiron Classic – Goodrich vs. Flint Powers Catholic - 7:30 PM
Football - Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. Linden   - 7:30 PM
 
 
Friday, Aug. 30
2019 Xenith Prep Football Kickoff Classic - Grosse Pointe South vs Birmingham Groves  - 4 PM
2019 Flint Vehicle City Gridiron Classic – Otisville LakeVille vs. North Branch - 4 PM
2019 Xenith Prep Football Kickoff Classic - Warren De La Salle Collegiate vs Muskegon  - 7 PM
Football - Bad Axe vs. Harbor Beach   - 7 PM
2019 Flint Vehicle City Gridiron Classic – Flint Carman-Ainsworth vs. Port Huron - 7:30 PM
 
 
Saturday, Aug. 31
2019 Xenith Prep Football Kickoff Classic - Detroit Catholic Central vs Detroit King  - 1 PM
Football - Norway  vs. Lake Linden-Hubbell   - 2 PM
2019 Xenith Prep Football Kickoff Classic – Phillips Academy (IL) vs Detroit Cass Tech  - 4 PM
 
Tuesday, Sept. 3
Boys Soccer - Ovid-Elsie  vs. Montrose   - 5 PM
Boys Soccer - Manchester  vs. Blissfield   - 5:30 PM
Girls Volleyball - Ovid-Elsie  vs. Montrose   - 6:30 PM
Boys Soccer - Troy Athens vs. TBA  - 7 PM
Boys Soccer - Brighton  vs. Novi   - 7 PM
Boys Soccer - Freeland  vs. Essexville Garber   - 7 PM
Boys Soccer - Howell  vs. Salem   - 7 PM
Boys Soccer - Imlay City vs. Notre Dame Prep  - 7:30 PM ? 
 
Now in its 11th 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. Pixellot – The NFHS Network’s automated streaming solution – is used by schools wishing to live stream games but lacking the ability to staff the events. The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.

NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $9.95 a 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 benefit, as 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.